“While the scheming opposition can continue maneuvering, we will keep governing until 2027 and for as long as the Spanish people want,” warned Pedro Sánchez. In a climate of total uncertainty amid the flood of legal cases surrounding the political and family environment of the Prime Minister, and without knowing how far these processes may escalate but also with no expectation that the storm will subside, nothing is better than a good warm bath of youthful socialist militancy to try to catch one’s breath and, at the same time, attempt to inject fighting spirit into troops torn between indignation and discouragement.

The climax of the trial against David Sánchez at the Badajoz Court is approaching for the alleged crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling. The brother of the Prime Minister will testify this Thursday and will have the opportunity to defend himself against the accusations that he was appointed in the Badajoz Provincial Council in 2017. Also testifying in this fifth session of the trial will be the former president of the Provincial Council and former secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, accused of having designed a senior management position tailored for David Sánchez.

An election campaign basically consists of raising a bell tower. The higher it is, the bigger the bell and the farther the ringing reaches, the better for the officiating parish priest. However, it happens that sometimes, down on the street, things happen that distract people to the point that no one pays attention to the ringing.

La Audiencia de Badajoz has issued a sentence condemning David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to nine years of disqualification. David Sánchez, who will not go to prison, was tried in early June for the crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling along with ten other people accused of having secured a job at the Diputación de Badajoz, that of coordinator of the conservatories, created to his measure by the then president of the entity, Miguel Ángel Gallardo.

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.