Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez described a Senate committee hearing into a corruption scandal as “a circus,” amid investigations that have ensnared former Socialist officials and his own wife.
The probe concerns alleged kickbacks for public contracts for sanitary equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, involving close allies of Sánchez who helped him rise to power.
Sánchez defended his party’s finances as “absolutely clean” and rejected calls to resign—as the centrist conservative Popular Party continued to push the issue to force early elections.
The scandal has strained Sanchez’s minority government and prompted new anti-corruption measures to maintain coalition support.
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