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David Sánchez and Miguel Ángel Gallardo will not be able to work for the administration or run for any type of elections until at least the year 2035. The Badajoz Court sentenced yesterday the brother of the Prime Minister to nine years of disqualification from public employment or office and from exercising the right to passive suffrage, and the former president of the Badajoz Provincial Council and former secretary general of the Extremaduran PSOE to respective sentences of nine years of disqualification for having created a coordinator position for conservatories for David Sánchez as a “tailor-made suit” according to the sentence.

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David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, and Miguel Ángel Gallardo, former president of the Diputación of Badajoz and former secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura, have been sentenced for a crime of administrative prevarication to nine years of disqualification from employment or public office and from exercising passive suffrage in a ruling issued by the Audiencia of Badajoz that has been made public today. What is the crime of administrative prevarication?

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“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.

The entry into force of the agreement between the European Union and Great Britain on the future of Gibraltar settles the last unresolved issue following Brexit, the United Kingdom’s departure from Europe six years ago.

The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard warns that the PSOE would have used “front” companies to pay Leire Díez coinciding with her ‘plumbing’ work for the party and that they are being investigated by the National Court.

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.