Calls are growing louder for Spain’s Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, to call national elections. New accusations of government corruption appear to emerge almost daily, with the country’s top prosecutor even now potentially facing trial over a legal leaks case.
Around 100,000 demonstrators gathered in Madrid on Sunday, according to Partido Popular (PP) organisers. They accuse Sánchez of running a “mafia” which has “manufactured corruption to cover up more corruption.”
The prime minister’s Socialist party is facing several open legal cases, including cases involving his wife, Begoña Gómez, and his brother, David Sánchez. These corruption scandals have also now started to cause a stir in Brussels, where a Portuguese MEP last week directly questioned the corruption allegations involving members of Sánchez’s inner circle.
Argentinian President Javier Milei also said at the Madrid Economic Forum on Monday that Sánchez was a “crook.”
One shop manager at Sunday’s protest told journalists that “the expiry date on this government passed a long time ago.”
It’s getting tiring.
PP leader Alberto Núnez Feijóo also complained that Sánchez’s administration “has stained everything—politics, state institutions, the separation of powers.”
However, the right-wing VOX has accused the PP of playing a “double game” with the Socialists. The party said on Monday that the PP “continues to maintain ALL ITS AGREEMENTS with the PSOE [Socialists] in Spain and in Brussels. How are we going to build a real alternative to Sánchez in this way?”
VOX ESTÁ SOLO.
El PP sigue manteniendo TODOS SUS PACTOS con el PSOE en España y en Bruselas.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
