The payment is based on the appointment of David Sánchez 2017 as coordinator of music centers in Badajoz, Extremadura.
In 2024, Manos Limpias – a group with links to the right that the Supreme Court of Spain was. the suspect of filing frivolous cases to undermine the government – filed a complaint claiming that the post was created for the prime minister’s younger brother, and that civil servants conspired to steal public competition on his behalf.
Sánchez has denied the charges, and throughout the trial his defense argued that it was impossible to claim the post was given by showing favoritism because it was given several years before his brother became prime minister, and while he was prime minister. isolation and powerlessness.
The process took place at a time when Sánchez had been dismissed as general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party and considered politically dead. And the man who allegedly ordered the rigging of the contest – former regional President Miguel Ángel Gallardo – testified that he had a bad relationship with Pedro Sánchez and had publicly supported his rival in the party leadership, making it more likely that he would favor his brother.
Although the Spanish Public Prosecutor’s Office to demand that the charges be droppedthe regional court brought the case to court. In their decision, which the judges noted was based only on “circumstantial evidence,” the prime minister’s brother was found guilty of misconduct and barred from holding public office for nine years.
Transport Minister Óscar Puente he said the judgment was made by those whose “sole purpose is to overthrow a government that they could not win in the elections,” and they said this period in Spanish politics will be remembered as “the systems of our most important institutions were put to the limit.”
While insisting that the government will consider the decision, Socialist Party Parliamentary Spokesperson Patxi López referred to legal cases as “witch hunt” and said the verdict “confirms the victory of the extreme right wing strategy.”
Pedro Sánchez has publicly admitted that the legal pressure on his family has exhausted him, and him he briefly considered resigning in 2024 after his wife, Begoña Gómez, was mentioned in a separate criminal complaint submitted by Manos Limpias. He is on the way to answer the charges about corruption and influence of business charges.
