“It is very serious,” warn officials at Moncloa in response to the ruling by the Provincial Court of Badajoz that this Tuesday sentenced David Sánchez, the brother of the Prime Minister, to nine years of disqualification for a crime of administrative misconduct. And a second “very dangerous precedent for our democracy,” in their view, following the Supreme Court ruling that also disqualified the former Attorney General of the State, Álvaro García Ortiz, from holding office. “It is outrageous to convict an innocent person without evidence,” they warn in the Executive.

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.