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Police Uncover “Criminal Organization” in PSOE… Sánchez Apologizes but Says He’s Staying: “This Isn’t About Me”

Spain was stunned to discover how three of Pedro Sánchez’s four closest friends, who accompanied him in taking power first in the PSOE and then in the government, allegedly rigged elections, collected millions in commissions from public works contracts they awarded from the government, and placed their prostitutes in public sector jobs. A nearly 500-page report compiled by the Civil Guard transcribes eight audio recordings from meetings where they divided…


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President Sánchez’s brother goes on trial, and his hirer shows he’s capable of anything, gaining parliamentary immunity in less than 24 hours

David Sánchez, the Prime Minister’s brother, will go to trial for influence peddling and prevarication. The judge who investigated the case concluded that after Pedro Sánchez mentioned his brother was a musician, the PSOE leader in Extremadura, Miguel Angel Gallardo, created an ad hoc job for him as coordinator of the two music conservatories in Badajoz, whose provincial council Gallardo presided over. David Sánchez’s position was put out to tender,…


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Sánchez travels to China amid tariff war with US

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, begins an official trip to Vietnam and China this week with a strong commercial focus, aiming to increase sales of Spanish companies in these countries amidst the tariff war initiated by U.S. President Donald Trump. The goal of the trip is to balance trade relations with both countries—currently, they sell much more to Spain than they buy—and it takes on special ignificance in…


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President of pro-government El País compares Sánchez to Franco for wanting to take total control of newspaper

Joseph Oughourlian, president of Grupo Prisa – a publicly traded company and owner of the newspaper El País and SER, the leading radio network in Spain – has publicly denounced the attempt by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to oust him from the presidency of the Group and seize the company, as he has already done with Indra and Telefónica. In an editorial unimaginable just a few weeks…


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Spain: Without the Fugitive, There is No Law

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had to retract and concede again publicly yesterday, accepting the demands of the fugitive Puigdemont – leader of Junts, who with his seven deputies in Congress decides which laws move forward and which do not – in order to push through an “omnibus” Decree Law with 29 measures, which include everything from pension increases to subsidies for public transport passes or aid for…


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Feijóo formally requests Sánchez’s resignation, ‘the number one of the corrupt plot,’ in light of ‘situation of decay’ surrounding Government

The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has formally requested this Wednesday in Congress the resignation of the head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, asserting that the reasoned exposition from the judge of the National Court confirms that he was ‘the number one of the corrupt plot.’ In his view, they cannot get used to ‘living in this situation of decay of the Presidency of the Government.’ ‘I come…


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Pedro Sánchez’s wife to appear in court today, under investigation for corruption and influence peddling while European Public Prosecutor’s Office also investigates

The judge has summoned Begoña Gómez, under investigation for corruption in the private sector and influence peddling (she wrote letters of recommendation for her partners’ companies to win public tenders) and the news, expected, has unleashed a political storm five days before the European elections. The PP has called for the resignation of the prime minister, who has responded with a new “letter to the citizens”: “What they did not…


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Sánchez does not explain wife’s business dealings while threatening judges and critical press with “cleansing” and “democratic regeneration”: “We will show the world how democracy is defended”

The Spanish press that remains critical of the government is unanimous: “a farce”, “a grotesque”, “a joke”… But no one is fooled. When Pedro Sánchez refuses to explain his wife’s business dealings and says that these five days mark “a turning point”, speaks of “cleanliness, of “democratic regeneration” and that “we will show the world how democracy is defended”, he means that he is tired of seeking an agreement with…


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Pedro Sánchez continues… white is black

Unusual: Pedro Sánchez continues… The PSOE denies the evidence and backs Pedro Sánchez, who, surrounded by corruption, speaks of “harassment” and lashes out against the right, the ultra-right, the judges, the press… On the same day that a judge opened proceedings to find out whether the president’s wife had committed a criminal offence (an opening of proceedings that, in another unprecedented decision, has been appealed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office,…


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Sánchez loves Gómez… and threatens to resign on the day a judicial investigation into his wife’s shady business dealings is opened

Yesterday morning, a judge opened an investigation into the shady business dealings of Begoña Gómez, the wife of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, which we have already reported on in The Corner: “Something fishy in La Moncloa: Pedro Sánchez’s wife recommended two companies in a public tender for a €7-million contract” And in the afternoon, in a letter posted on his social networks, the president of the government announced that he…