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The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Monday that will continue to lead the Executive after threatening to resign for the personal harassment he says he suffers from the opposition.
“I have decided to continue, to continue with even more strength if possible,” Sánchez said in a message to the country from the Moncloa palace.
Thus concludes the uncertainty that began on Wednesday when Sánchez announced that he was giving himself a few days to consider his resignation, criticizing the “harassment and demolition” of his family by the right and the extreme right after it became known that a judicial investigation had been opened against his wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged “corruption.”
Assiduous of political coups, Sánchez canceled his public agenda until Monday, canceling his appearance at rallies during the first weekend of campaigning for the crucial regional elections on May 12 in Catalonia, where the socialists seek to remove the independentists from power.
“We will show the world how democracy is defended, Let us put an end to this mud in the only possible way, through collective, serene and democratic rejection, beyond the acronyms and ideologies, which I am committed to leading firmly as President of the Government of Spain”he continued.
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Regenerate democracy
The demonstrations in Madrid and other parts of Spain this weekend have “decisively influenced my reflection”said Sánchez, criticizing the “deliberate hoaxes” spewed by the opposition.
“I assume before you my commitment to work tirelessly, “firmly and with serenity for the pending regeneration of our democracy,” the socialist leader added in his message, who had remained completely silent these days, without giving any clues about his decision.
of having resigned Sánchez, Spain would have been heading towards new general electionsa year after last July.
lto investigation against Sánchez’s wife, under summary secrecy, it was opened due to a complaint from the Clean Hands association, close to the extreme right.
The The prosecution requested that the lawsuit be filed and Clean Hands admitted that it was based exclusively on press information.
According to the digital media El Confidencial, The court investigates Begoña Gómez’s links with the Spanish tourist group Globalia, owner of the airline Air Europa, when the latter was in talks with the government for a rescue during the covid-19 pandemic, which it finally achieved.
““A teenage show”
In his letter to the citizens released on Wednesday, Sánchez, who governs with the extreme left and the support of Basque and Catalan nationalist and independence partiesrepudiated the “complaints that are as scandalous as they are false,” which in his opinion emanate from a campaign carried out by “right-wing and ultra-right interests (…) “They do not accept the verdict of the polls.”
Is a “harassment and demolition strategy”continued the president, whose measures, such as an amnesty law for independentists who participated in the attempted secession of Catalonia in 2017, have collided with frontal rejection from the right-wing opposition.
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The conservative Popular Party, first opposition formation, has ridiculed Sánchez’s decision to consider his resignation and he assures that it is pure political tactics to victimize himself and regroup his ranks.
A head of government “cannot put on a show as a teenager so that they come after him telling him not to leave and not to get angry”the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, ironically said on Thursday.
The socialist “already represents the past” and “There will be no epic in the resignation, nor will there be heroism in the resistance” if he remains in powerFeijóo stated on Sunday, in a reference to the book “Manuel de resistance” by Sánchez.
