Pedro Sánchez feigns ignorance to avoid resigning over PSOE corruption cases

The President of the Spanish Government and Secretary General of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), Pedro Sánchez, appeared at a press conference this afternoon.

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Sánchez's press conference took place Following the news of the resignation of PSOE General Secretary Santos Cerdán, following the revelation of his involvement in the alleged collection of illegal commissions for public works contracts, Sánchez appeared before the media with a funeral face and a mournful voice to present himself as having been deceived by Cerdán and to express his "enormous disappointment" in him (the video of the press conference can be seen here).

Sánchez has pretended to ignore Cerdán's corruption and is avoiding resigning or calling elections. This statement lacks credibility, especially considering that he himself claims to have known Cerdán since 2014. In the same vein he has displayed in the face of the Socialist scandals, and despite having apologized and announced a restructuring of his party's leadership, Sánchez has presented himself as the victim of a "siege" by the opposition.

In his appearance, Sánchez insisted that he will not call elections before 2027, a call that even senior members of his party have called for. It is unusual for a prime minister besieged by corruption —which directly affects even his wife, his brother, his attorney general, and the last two secretaries of his party's organization— to insist that he knew nothing and refuse to resign. Other governments in Europe have fallen for much less than this.

What's clear from all this is that Sánchez has decided to use Cerdán as a firewall to prevent the manure from reaching the prime minister, but it's already too late. With all the corruption scandals surrounding Sánchez, it's ridiculous that he wants us to believe he knows nothing and bears no responsibility for it all. Sánchez must resign and call elections, and every day that passes without him taking that step will mean a worsening of the process of degradation of our democracy that Sánchez is perpetrating by attacking judicial independence and freedom of information, colonizing all institutions, and seriously damaging the rule of law, as the European Parliament stated a few weeks ago.

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Image: PSOE.