Política

The flood of ongoing legal cases against the political and family environment of Pedro Sánchez – from his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his brother, David Sánchez, to the former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the last two secretaries of organization of the PSOE, the former minister José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán – keeps all Government action overshadowed and increases political pressure from both the opposition and the partners and allies of the investiture. But the head of the Executive insists on contrasting his management with the political, media, and judicial “noise” in which he is increasingly involved. He already argued last Wednesday from Rome, after meeting with the Pope, that this whole succession of open investigations, in his opinion, “does not at all challenge” the Government’s action in these eight years of mandate, which he also intends to push forward until the legislature is exhausted.

The principle of ‘national priority’, which involves prioritizing Spaniards over immigrants in access to public services, and which has been incorporated into the government agreements of Vox and PP in Extremadura and Aragón, is supported by four out of ten respondents in the May barometer of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), published this Friday.

The first session of the trial against David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, proceeded slowly. David Sánchez arrived at the Audiencia de Badajoz, where he is being tried for the alleged crimes of influence peddling and malfeasance, at 9:40 in the morning. He got out of the car, put on his blazer, and entered calmly into the interior of the Palace of Justice.

When the trial for the Kitchen operation started almost two months ago, there was doubt in the National Court about whether the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior during Mariano Rajoy’s government – with Jorge Fernández Díaz and Francisco Martínez in it – would end up stabbing each other to avoid being tagged with the “X” of the parapolice plot, financed with reserved funds, to steal compromising information for the Popular Party whose treasurer was Luis Bárcenas. With the extremely high-voltage confrontation they both protagonized during the investigation as a precedent, it did not seem far-fetched that they would go into hand-to-hand combat with a every man for himself attitude. But yesterday, that idea vanished: there was a non-aggression pact.

It is about “toppling a government, not at the polls but with other tricks,” warned Minister Óscar Puente yesterday, in the face of the flood of legal cases pressuring Pedro Sánchez. “The PSOE will not tolerate it, we will not bow to anyone’s attempts to disturb our democracy through methods that are not democratic,” warned the Minister of Transport from Congress.

The National Police have arrested at least ten people in a large-scale anti-jihadist operation carried out in several provinces, including Barcelona, according to sources close to the investigation cited by EFE.

Faced with the flood of ongoing legal cases affecting the Government and the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez is not willing to give up, but is very determined to fight back against the political offensive of the Popular Party and the far-right Vox. The head of the Executive, thus, has requested this Thursday to appear before the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies

The Supreme Court (TS) has emphasized without unanimity the “public interest” and the “human substrate” in its decision not to provisionally suspend the extraordinary regularization of migrants approved by the Government. However, two judges have issued a dissenting opinion in which they support the provisional suspension of the royal decree.

The organization led by Santos Cerdán orchestrated to destroy judicial cases had a dual approach. On one hand, to look for dirt on investigators of matters affecting the PSOE or the environment of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. And on the other, as a counterattack, to look for scandals or irregularities of their political rivals, especially the Popular Party.

The president of the PNV’s EBB, Aitor Esteban, stated this Thursday that he is convinced that the state legislature “has come to an end” and addressed the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to assure him that “the general interest demands elections this year.” Furthermore, he reiterated that his party does not contemplate a motion of no confidence and asked the head of the Executive for reflection because “many things have happened this week,” but “more will happen.”