A total of 29 magistrates—11 of them from the Supreme Court—have so far supported the four criminal proceedings that will be the elephant in the room at the 41st PSOE congress, which starts this Friday in Seville. The four have a common factor: they involve positions and individuals linked to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. Three of them are investigating corruption crimes, as explained by the digital newspaper El Español. Sánchez’s wife, Begoña Gómez; his brother, David Sánchez; his Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz; and his right-hand man in the party and government, José Luis Ábalos, are facing criminal investigations with no signs of an imminent dismissal…
Today, Juan Lobato, who was until yesterday the Secretary General of the PSOE in Madrid, will testify before the judge. He is a critical voice that was recently ousted by the Sánchez faction because he suspected the origin of an email sent to him from La Moncloa containing confidential data about a taxpayer, the boyfriend of the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a confessed tax evader, with whom Sánchez and his team continue to attack the regional president of the PP. However, if the leak of that taxpayer’s data from Moncloa is confirmed, the president himself could end up in trouble. More trouble.
Meanwhile, the 41st Congress will reaffirm all the proposals from the leadership while the Sánchez supporters prepare to take power in those federations that have shown any signs of criticism towards the party’s caudillista drift (those in Madrid, Castilla-León, Aragón…). It will, though, be difficult for them to eliminate the dissent from the President of Castilla La Mancha, García Page, the only socialist who today wins elections and governs without the need for pacts that until yesterday the PSOE considered unnatural.
