The Spanish executive leader acknowledged on Saturday that the government and the Spanish Socialist Party live “difficult days,” but reiterated the intention of continuing the positions and not dismissing themselves
The president of the Spanish government, socialist Pedro Sánchez, will present a package of measures against corruption on Wednesday to try to respond to advanced demands by the government supporting parties.
Sánchez will take “a package of important and blunt measures” against corruption, which include the proposals and demands that have made him in recent weeks the geringonça parties that reinvesting him Prime Minister in November 2023, today said the minister with the protection of education and sportsman, pillar joy, without further details.
The government leader runs on Wednesday to his request, to explain the suspicions of corruption at the Spanish Workers Socialist Party Summit (PSOE) and the Executive, following a police investigation that put in custody to three weeks “number three” of socialists, Santos Cerdán.
In the same process was also constituted another former socialist leader and former minister, José Luis Abalas.
The Santos Cerdán case, which came to public on June 12, with the disclosure of a police report, triggered one of the largest crises that has lived Sánchez since he is a prime minister and is, according to media, analysts and political leaders, the first that truly puts his continuity ahead of the PSOE executive.
Pedro Sánchez himself acknowledged on Saturday that the government and the Spanish socialist party live “difficult days,” but reiterated the intention to continue in positions and not resign.
“I am fully aware that they are being difficult for everyone, no doubt, to the Government of Spain and for the militancy of the party,” said Sánchez, in the start of a meeting of the Federal Commission of PSOE in Madrid, where he heard one of the party’s “heavy weights”, the president of the Regional Government of Castile La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, to ask him to submit to a confidence or to convene. elections (the current legislature ends in 2027).
Sánchez claimed to be “with his heart”, but also with “the determination intact and the same desire” to face “adversity.”
Spain’s Prime Minister said he felt the responsibility of continuing the government’s lead because the alternative is a “Ultra Right Coalition” formed by the Popular Party (PP) and Vox, who govern or have ruled together in the last two years in municipalities and regional governments, and have been in social state and freedom cuts, as well as negotiating policies of climate change.
Sánchez highlighted, on the other hand, the good performance of the Spanish economy in recent years.
“We are aware that the disappointment is great, but Spain’s responsibility continues to move forward is even greater,” he said, after apologizing to the Spanish and socialist militants for being fooled and deposited confidence in people “who did not deserve.”
Sánchez, as an organization, is not corrupt and promised collaboration with justice regarding suspicions involving former party leaders.
Parties that reelected Sánchez Prime Minister in November 2023 – an eight formations sprint – have not removed his support for now, but have continually pressured him to give more explanations and adopt blunt measures.
One of the hardest voices has been Somar, which is in the coalition of government with the socialists, with some of the leaders of this formation, in line with other parties, to assume that what Sánchez says on Wednesday to deputies may be the first step for a confidence and determining motion for continuity of the legislature.
“Spain today has a political problem” and when this happens “you can’t look elsewhere, you need to approach [o problema]”He said last week Yolanda Díaz, one of the government’s vice presidents and Somar leader.
This case of corruption “is already a country problem,” he said on the same occasion Yolanda Díaz, who considered that “the situation is very serious” and asked the government partner a radical change in the response he is giving.
