The conviction of David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister, to nine years of disqualification from public office “as the author by necessary cooperation of a crime of administrative prevarication” has immediately prompted a reaction from the PP. Alberto Núñez Feijóo has stated that the sentence issued by the Badajoz Court demonstrates that “no one” is “above the law, no matter whose family they belong to.” “It speaks well of our Rule of Law and should comfort all Spaniards,” he said in a message through social media.
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In that same message, Feijóo ironized with the words Sánchez himself used to defend his brother. ”’The truth will end up prevailing,’ said Sánchez. Well, here it is: the third conviction in his circle, after that of the former prosecutor and Ábalos, and unanimously by the chamber of the National Court of Badajoz,” Feijóo stated.
Miguel Tellado has also spoken out, stating that Sánchez’s brother has been convicted “despite attempts of extortion, blackmail, and coercion from the sewer paid by the PSOE.” “Justice has once again ruled against Pedro Sánchez’s circle,” he wrote on his social media. The PP spokesperson in Congress, Ester Muñoz, also spoke out and said that “another historic day” is happening after this sentence because “for the first time in democracy” the Prime Minister’s brother is convicted.
The PSOE partners
Sumar and ERC criticize the sentence
On the other hand, Sumar, coalition partner of the PSOE in the Government, considers the sentence “disproportionate.” “They have to be careful not to overstep; they are making it very difficult to believe in the Rule of Law in this country,” warned the Compromís deputy, affiliated with Sumar, Alberto Ibáñez.
Sumar spokesperson Aína Vidal also called the sentence disproportionate and agreed with Ibáñez that “the state of opinion about Justice is disastrous” precisely because of “sentences like this.”
Gabriel Rufián, for his part, considers the sentence “a significant overreach.” ”The only positive thing is that the PSOE now knows the trouble you get into when you have a judge on your case, for no reason,” added Rufián, for whom “if you are truly patriotic, you should find it wrong that judges persecute people for no reason.”
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