“On a day like today, and after the news that I have learned, despite everything, I continue to believe in the justice of my country,” said Pedro Sánchez, this Wednesday in the Government control session in the Congress of the Deputies, after it has become known that an investigative court in Madrid has initiated investigation proceedings against the president’s wife, Begoña Gómez, for the alleged commission of the crimes of influence peddling and corruption in business, in response to the complaint filed by the Clean Hands union.
This was Sánchez’s response to the question posed to him in the control session by Gabriel Rufián, spokesperson for the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC). “Do you believe in justice?” The Republican leader, in a veiled reference to the complaint filed against the president’s wife, has warned Sánchez that he “is feeling the dirty war firsthand, so I understand him perfectly.”
Rufián has raised cases of political persecution and espionage against the independence movement promoted by “an unworthy and miserable Minister of the Interior”, in reference to Jorge Fernández Díaz, or that even today there are “people in exile because they are accused of terrorism”, by of “judges in robes, at the service of the right and the extreme right.” “No one has paid, they are more emboldened than ever,” the ERC spokesperson warned.
And Sánchez has insisted: “On a day like today, despite everything, I continue to believe in the justice of my country, in autonomy, independence where appropriate, and in the separation of powers.” The President of the Government has assured that he can guarantee that “the moment we entered Moncloa, almost six years ago, all these corruptions came out that, effectively, embarrass the democrats,” he concluded.
Given the complaint filed by Manos Liminas, the investigating court number 41 of Madrid has opened proceedings before deciding whether to admit it for processing and initiate a formal investigation. That is to say, for now no formal investigation has been opened against the wife of the President of the Government.
The response of the PP has not been long in coming and, through the mouth of deputy secretary Ester Muñoz, the main opposition party has demanded Sánchez’s immediate appearance to give explanations at a press conference. “He has been living in silence for a month and a half,” complained Muñoz, who has gone beyond the president’s wife by targeting his brother, who lives in Portugal to pay less taxes than in Spain, as he has claimed, and his father. of Begoña Gómez, who owns gay saunas, something that, from the point of view of the PP leader, is not exemplary.
