Telemadrid has acknowledged in the last few hours that it spread a false subsidy to the wife of President Pedro Sánchez. The Madrid public channel had to issue a 24-second rectification to acknowledge that it did not verify whether the subsidy that the digital newspaper The Objective falsely attributed to Begoña Gómez was true. The news presenter introduced this fake news announcing “new revelations about the activity of President Sánchez’s wife”, as if she were a shady character. The person who received this subsidy was, in reality, a Cantabrian businesswoman.
This error is not foreign to the PP campaign, which uses the work of the president’s wife to create opposition and create a shadow of doubt about her honorability. The popular ones, somewhat recklessly, want to take Pedro Sánchez not only to the Senate to give explanations, but also to the courts to clarify what they call “his wife’s business dealings.” The alleged case does not appear to be such, since on two occasions the Conflict of Interest Office, an independent body that acts at the request of third parties, has filed the complaint after being investigated.
The intention of the PP leadership is to intensify its pressure on Sánchez on this issue and is preparing a document to submit to the Supreme Court or the National Court so that he has to appear in court. The decision is firm and although Moncloa is calm about the facts, they consider that the popular ones are playing dirty. When asked by journalists, the Government spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, declared that the PP adopts the strategy of spreading hoaxes and infamies from minute one. In her opinion, “they need that dense squid ink so that they do not talk about those confessed crimes regarding corruption that reside in their party.”
The gap between the two major parties in Parliament threatens to be unbridgeable. Enric Juliana writes in the epilogue of his latest book, Spain: the pact and the fury, that the dance between the pact and the fury will determine the coming years of the country. For now, the fury threatens to take everything away.
