In a letter posted on his X account and addressed to citizens of the European country, Sánchez denied the corruption allegations against his wife, Begoña Gómez.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said he will consider resigning after a judicial investigation was launched Wednesday into accusations that his wife used her position to influence business deals.
In a letter posted on his X account and addressed to citizens of the European country, Sánchez denied the corruption allegations against his wife, Begoña Gómez.
He said the allegations came up against his wife not because she did anything illegal but because of his position.
The PM said he would cancel all public agenda for a few days to reflect and decide on his next path.
All of this leads me to tell you that I will continue working, but that I will cancel my public agenda for a few days so I can reflect and decide which path to take.
Next Monday, April 29, I will appear before the media and announce my decision, he said.
Part of the letter read, It is not usual for me to address you through a letter. However, the severity of the attacks that my wife and I are receiving, and the need to give a calm response, make me think that this is the best way to express my opinion. I thank you, therefore, for taking a little of your time to read these lines.
As you may already know, and if I do not inform you, a court in Madrid has opened preliminary proceedings against my wife, Begoña Gómez, at the request of a far-right organization called Clean Hands, to investigate alleged crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business.
Apparently, the judge will call those responsible for two digital newspapers that have been publishing on this matter to testify. In my opinion, they are media with a marked right-wing and ultra-right orientation. Logically, Begoña will defend her honorability and will collaborate with Justice in everything required to clarify facts that are as scandalous in appearance as they are non-existent.
Indeed, the complaint by Manos Liminas is based on alleged information from that constellation of ultra-conservative newspapers referred to above. I emphasize the alleged information because, after its publication, we have been denying the falsehoods expressed while Begoña has taken legal action so that these same digital companies rectify what, we maintain, is spurious information.
This strategy of harassment and demolition has been going on for months. Therefore, I am not surprised by the overacting of Mr. Feijóo and Mr. Abascal. In this outrage serious as well as crude, both are necessary collaborators with a galaxy far-right digital and the Clean Hands organization.
Describing the allegations as an harassment, he said, In short, it is an operation of harassment and demolition by land, sea and air, to try to make me weaken politically and personally by attacking my wife.
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.
I am also fully aware that the attacks I suffer are not against me but rather what I represent: a progressive political option, supported election after election by millions of Spaniards, based on economic advance, social justice and democratic regeneration.
This fight started years ago. First, with the defense we made of the political autonomy of the organization that best represents progressive Spain, the Socialist PartyPugna that we won.
Second, after the motion of censure and the successive electoral victories of 2019, the sustained attempt to delegitimize the progressive coalition government in the heat of the ignominious cry of ''let Txapote vote for you''. They couldn''t bankrupt us either.
The last episode was the general elections of July 23, 2023. The Spanish people voted overwhelmingly for the advance, allowing the reissue of a progressive coalition government against the coalition government of Mr. Feijóo and Mr. Abascal that the media batteries and demoscopic conservative.
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