Spain’s Sánchez sorry for corruption scandal as opposition calls for resignation

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez apologized to the Spanish people after escalating corruption scandals crashed a colleague of a high socialist party.

Sanchez, which since 2018 said since 2018. year, he said that there was no “zero corruption” and he sought to establish himself to distance himself from the affair, judging early elections.

The opposition conservative leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo said it was time to leave Sanchez resign: “Survival is no longer an option.”

Downbeat Sanchez admitted that he was wrong to trust Santos Cerdan, the secretary of his Socialist Party and said about his deep disappointment.

The Cerdan was asked to testify in court after the judge proposed that he may have acted with former party officials in improperly allocating public contracts in exchange for feedback.

He said that he deviated on Thursday to defend himself in the Supreme Court of June 25. June, maintaining that “he never committed a crime nor was I complicated.”

Despite his seven years in power, Sanchez instructed that shivering, fastened, fastened after conservative popular party won 2023. years, but failed to form a government.

In the midst of accommodation in his own future, he called a press conference in an effort to start from the Puzavica scandal.

In a statement followed by media issues, he said that absolutely nothing about corruption affairs and instead, pledged to restructure his socialist PS socialist party.

“This does not apply to me, and it is not about the socialist party,” he said.

His government will continue its “political project”, insisting that new elections would not take place until 2027. Years.

However, Sanchez can face pressure from his coalition, after the Deputy Prime Minister Ioland Diaz from the left coalition partner Sumar Sumar said she also wanted explanations.

The opposition popular party floated the weekend rally in the center of Madrid who attracted tens of thousands of supporters, inviting Sanchez to go under the slogan “Mafia or Democracy”.

The party leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo appealed to other coalition parties to leave the Prime Minister. There was no possible firewall, he told reporters on Thursday: “Corruption is already hard for this Government and must end.”

A little more than an hour, Sanchez answered his first appearance to the media from the national exclusion of electricity that hit Spain in April.

Speaking nationalist parties (PSOVE) National Staff in Madrid, Prime Minister said he had until Thursday morning in the In the Integrity of Santos Cerdan and wanted to apologize to Spanish citizens.

“There is no such corruption, but there must be zero tolerance when it takes place,” Sanchez said, Secretary General of PSOE. “We shouldn’t have trusted him.”

Sanchez accuses opposition to stain campaign. Like many others, he said he had his mistakes and asked the Spanish people for forgiveness.

He continued to accuse her government’s surroundings to many problems and followed his appearance with a message on social media, depending on what he had always stand for: “pure politics and democratic renewal.”

Sanchez faced repeated political crises and in April 2024. She was threatened to deviate.

It took five days to decide on his future, when the court decided to open the preliminary proceedings against his wife for charges about her business affairs.

He then called a television conference for journalists, and at the time the great drama he announced that he decided to stay in the business.

However, the resignation of Cerdan is a moment of political hazards for the prime minister.

Although not personally involved in codes of corruption, one of its closest political allies is, together with two other officials.

The Judge of the Supreme Court Leopoldo Puente acted after the long-term report of the Central Operational Unit of Spain, concluded that the Socialist Party of the Cerdan organizer would have a full knowledge of payments given in the alleged scandal.

The judge said that the report revealed that the evidence proposed that Cerdan did in agreement with the former Transport Minister Sanchez, Jose Luis Ababos and the Minister of the former Colden Garcia counselor.

Abalos lost his job in Prelog 2021. years and then was forced to resign from the Socialist Party in 2024. years. He remains an independent Prophet.

The police report is based on a series of recordings that Koldo Garcia has made during a four-year period and estimates that payments worth 620,000 € (530,000 pounds).

The transcripts of some of the recordings appeared in the Spanish Media, stating that Cerdan and Koldo Garcia discussed the payment of significant amounts of money.

Koldo Garcia and Jose Luis Ababal are also invited to testify. The former minister denies that he did anything wrong.