The unexpected announcement by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, continues to generate a multitude of reactions in all the media. This past Wednesday, April 24, the general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party announced by surprise through his social networks that he had decided to pause his public agenda for five days to reflect and decide whether to continue at the helm of the Executive.
A decision that has been motivated by the investigation that has been opened against his wife, Begoña Gómez, for an alleged crime of influence peddling and corruption in business. ”I need to stop and reflect. I urgently need to answer the question of whether it is worth it, despite the mud into which the right and the extreme right try to turn politics. “If I should continue at the head of the Government or give up this high honor,” declared Pedro Sánchez.
Not even 24 hours have passed since the announcement and numerous television faces have already spoken about it. One of the last to do so was Ana Rosa Quintana. The Telecinco presenter began Thursday’s program by talking about the letter from the President of the Government.
”Let me talk about the situation in which 50 million Spaniards find themselves. The word of the day is victimhood or not. Since yesterday afternoon we have witnessed several unprecedented terms in democracy. And each one of them generates a mystery for all Spaniards,” Quintana began by saying in TardeAR.
”The first of them is deferred resignation. No President of the Government had ever announced a possible resignation. Suarez appeared on black-and-white television in 1981 and said, “I irrevocably present my resignation.” “The Pope of Rome himself resigned without thinking 43 years after Suárez,” he continued.
”Pedro Sánchez announces in a love letter to the citizens that he is going to think about whether to resign. Go ahead and say that every person has the right to break down. But what a president does not have the right to do is leave citizens in suspense for five days. Who is he sending this delayed order to? To the judges for denouncing his wife, to the media that echo the proceedings, including the international ones that today talk about corruption. “He himself has targeted who he wants to defend,” the journalist claimed.
Moments later, the presenter wondered if it could all be a strategy for the Catalan and European elections. ”She is looking for a motion of confidence to come out stronger or divert attention from the investigations that have been resumed into spying on her cell phone with Pegasus,” she said.
”Sentimental blackmail. Sánchez says that he is a man deeply in love who lives helplessly with the mud they spread on her. Why does he leave the country in suspense by taking a five-day long weekend if it is a purely sentimental decision? Where is the resilience that a president must have? That conviction that made him the man of no means no (…) There are only two options: he resigns or he doesn’t resign. On Monday Spain will know the answer and bets are accepted. Mine is: no means no,’ he concluded.
