Socialist corruption in Spain briefly explained to people from other countries

Spain is facing constant political corruption scandals involving the Socialists.

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Both Pedro Sánchez's socialist government and his personal entourage and party, the PSOE, are embroiled in several corruption cases that are currently difficult to follow. Therefore, this article aims to briefly summarize these scandals for people in other countries, in order to offer a general overview that helps them understand the seriousness of the situation.

Right now, the Justice is officially investigating the following people close to Pedro Sánchez, his government, and his party for various crimes:

• His wife Begoña Gómez is charged with four crimes: influence peddling, business corruption, misappropriation and intrusion, allegedly for taking advantage of her position in her private businesses.
• His brother David Sánchez is under judicial prosecution for two crimes: prevarication and influence peddling, for obtaining a public job expressly created for him because he is the brother of who he is.
• His Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz (Sánchez was the one who appointed him to the post, since in Spain the prosecutor's office actually depends on the government) is being prosecuted for the crime of revealing secrets, for allegedly having disseminated confidential information in the framework of a socialist operation against the boyfriend of a political rival.
• His former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos, who until July 2021 was the PSOE's organization secretary and Sánchez's right-hand man, is charged with four crimes: criminal organization, bribery, influence peddling, and embezzlement.

In addition, in recent hours a recording has emerged that implicates the current secretary of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, in a possible crime of collecting commissions for awarding public works to companies. Cerdán replaced Ábalos in that senior position in the PSOE, becoming Sánchez's right-hand man within the party.

To this we must add that it recently came to light that a PSOE "plumber" was trying to gather data to discredit the police unit investigating these scandals, in order to declare these investigations null and void and leave any crimes committed by those involved in these cases unpunished. A scandal that has been described as a "mafia" by the parliamentary opposition, receiving criticism even from leaders of the PSOE itself.

There hasn't been a single resignation due to all these scandals. In other countries, entire governments have fallen for less than this, but in Spain Sánchez, instead of taking responsibility, has launched a hunt against the judges and media outlets investigating socialist corruption scandals, preparing measures copied from Putin's dictatorship to control the media.

Likewise, the Sánchez government has undertaken a reform to give the prosecutor's office (i.e., the government) control over the investigation of corruption cases, which would allow the government to close cases affecting the Socialists. This assault on justice has already been answered by a call from five associations of judges and prosecutors for an indefinite strike in protest against this attack on the separation of powers.

In addition to all this, Sánchez has promoted an amnesty to erase the crimes of his separatist allies in exchange for their support for his re-election, a scandalous traffic in favors that has been described by more than 1,300 judges as an attempt to "blow up the rule of law." This week it was revealed that the European Commission has rejected this measure before the Court of Justice of the EU, considering it a "self-amnesty" that is contrary to the rule of law. This amnesty has been resoundingly rejected by all types of institutions, including 11 of the 17 regional governments, 26 entities in the judicial field, including the Supreme Court, the 17 Superior Courts of Justice and the 4 largest associations of judges, in addition to all associations of prosecutors.

Spain is experiencing one of the most terrible moments of its democracy, with a coalition government formed by socialists and communists that does not respect judicial independence or freedom of the press, that acts under the idea that anything goes to stay in power and that exhibits a way of understanding the government's actions according to which Sánchez's wishes are above the Constitution and the laws, as if he were an autocrat.

Please, whether you are from Spain or another country, if you love democracy and reject political corruption, help me report this situation. Many people abroad are unaware of the seriousness of what is happening in my country, and this needs to be known: right now Spain is in danger of becoming a replica of the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela. Share this article on your social networks and via Telegram, WhatsApp, and email. Together we can prevent Spain from continuing to slide down this slope of corruption and authoritarianism promoted by the socialists.

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Photo: AFP.