Love can’t do everything. Bringing down Pedro Sánchez is not easy. He resisted when he had his entire party against him in 2016 (when he abandoned his seat) and since then he has done nothing but test his Resistance manual. If the fiasco of 28-M that made him lose the majority of autonomous communities did not make him give up, he did not consider it either when he brought the Koldo case to the attention of his government. But now the situation is different. At the center of the target is his wife, Begoña Gómez, a red line for the President of the Government, who after publications by several media outlets accusing him of influence peddling, and after a Madrid court has opened proceedings against her this Wednesday, he is considering resigning.
For now, the president has announced that he is canceling his agenda and that next Monday, April 29, he will appear to announce his final decision. “I’m not naive. I am aware that they are denouncing Begoña not because she has done something illegal, they know there is no case, but because she is my wife. As I am also fully aware that the attacks I suffer are not against me but against what I represent.: a progressive political option, supported election after election by millions of Spaniards, based on economic progress, social justice and democratic regeneration,” the president said. “I am a man deeply in love with my wife. I need to stop and reflect,” he added.
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For the head of the Executive, the parties of the right and the extreme right did not accept the electoral result of 23-J. “They were aware that the political attack would not be enough,” indicates the president through a letter published on the social network X, formerly Twitter. For this reason, he now points out that “they have crossed the line of respect for the family life of a President of the Government.” In his opinion, everything This is a “strategy of harassment and demolition that has been going on for months.”.
“At this point, the question I legitimately ask myself is, is all this worth it? Sincerely I dont know. This attack is unprecedented, it is so serious and so gross that I need to stop and reflect with my wife. Many times we forget that behind politicians there are people. And I, I am not ashamed to say it, I am a man deeply in love with my wife who lives helplessly with the mud that is spread on her day in and day out,” he added, visibly hurt.
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“I need to stop and reflect. I need to answer the question of whether it is worth it, despite the mud into which the right and the extreme right try to turn politics. Whether I should continue at the head of the Government or resign from this high honor. Despite the caricature that the right and the extreme right in politics and the media have tried to make of me, I have never been attached to the position. Yes, I have it in duty, political commitment and public service. I do not go through the charges, I assert the legitimacy of those high responsibilities to transform and advance the country that I love,” he concluded.
The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has reported this Wednesday that it has opened proceedings against Pedro Sánchez’s partner for the alleged commission of the crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business after receiving by ordinary distribution a complaint from the Manos Médicas collective. However, the investigation proceedings are declared secret.
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Gómez has been very present in political debates in recent months since, as he announced, The confidentialSánchez’s wife supposedly held meetings with several private companies, including Globalia and Air Europe, which later ended up receiving funds and public contracts from the current Government. However, at the moment she is not charged with any crime and she has not been summoned to testify as an accused by the judge. Until now it is known that she has started practice of proceedings with the testimony of two journalistsaccording to the aforementioned media.
It is important to remember that the opening of preliminary proceedings It does not mean that the case will necessarily end up going to trial.. This term refers to the initiation of an investigation by judicial authorities to determine whether there is sufficient evidence of the commission of a crime. During this phase, evidence is gathered, statements are taken and the necessary investigations are carried out to clarify the facts.
