The first witnesses deflated the accusations against David Sánchez yesterday. “I don’t remember,” “I have no evidence,” or “there were no irregularities” were the main statements during the long court session. The brother of the Prime Minister sits in the dock at the Badajoz Court accused of separate crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling for allegedly having been given a job at the Badajoz Provincial Council in 2017.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo is in Barcelona this Tuesday, where he will speak to Catalan entrepreneurs at the Cercle d’Economia sessions at a time of maximum political pressure for Junts to support an instrumental motion of no confidence to accelerate the calling of elections. According to sources from Feijóo’s team, the PP leader will deliver a “brave” speech during the dialogue he will have with economist Teresa García-Milà. The meeting in Barcelona takes place 24 hours after Feijóo himself expressed being “optimistic” about the possibility of a change of Government through the vote of no confidence because “184 deputies” in Congress “are demanding early and immediate elections.” “If those who say it are consistent and do it, we can find a solution in a short time,” he added yesterday.
Representatives of the Church, trade unions, employers, and the technology sector have defended this Monday the need to take action with unity in the face of the challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI), within the framework of the public presentation in Spain of Magnifica humanitas, the encyclical with which Leo XIV addresses the impact of new technologies on human dignity and the future of work.
La Audiencia Nacional resumes the Kitchen trial, which this week will have only one session, this Monday, in which the former deputy operational director of the Police, Eugenio Pino, and the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo are scheduled to testify about an alleged parapolice operation between 2013 and 2015 to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas.
While in Spain we are anxiously playing on the edge with democracy, Pope Leo XIV has identified the great flaw on which the democracies of the 21st century, including the Spanish one, are based: guaranteeing life projects through work and the social question, a…
Just on the days when Giorgia Meloni was avoiding a meeting with Pedro Sánchez in Rome citing scheduling issues, her party was preparing a confidential dossier against the Spanish Prime Minister. The title is eloquent: “The Spanish Senate censures the Sánchez Government.” The subtitle goes even further: “Yet another blow to the idol of the left.”
David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has an appointment this morning that will mark his future. The Provincial Court of Badajoz has summoned him at 9:30 a.m. to inform him of how it has resolved the preliminary issues that his defense raised last Thursday during the first session of the trial against him for the alleged crimes of influence peddling and malfeasance.
The phrase from former advisor Koldo García in his final statement in the trial for the Mask case, at the Supreme Court, was prophetic: “This has only just begun.” On that May 6, who was the right hand of José Luis Ábalos, Minister of Transport until 2021, said that phrase before hearing the “ready for sentencing” that would send him back to Soto del Real prison. He remains there.
“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.