US EditionWhat is the leaked WhatsApp messages scandal embroiling Spain's PM?
- Private conversations exchanged via WhatsApp between Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos were made public in 2025, revealing confidential political discussions within Spain.
- The leaks arose amid Ábalos's departure over corruption allegations and ongoing investigations into medical supply contracts during the Covid-19 crisis, raising questions about Sánchez's knowledge.
- The messages reveal Sánchez's close control over PSOE party members and regional leaders, including harsh language like calling colleagues ‘hypocrites’ and regional presidents ‘a disgrace’ or ‘useless morons’.
- Sánchez criticized top figures, calling Defence Minister Robles ‘una pájara’ and former Deputy Prime Minister Iglesias ‘stupid’, while the government claimed no compromising information appears in the messages.
- The government condemned the leaks as harassment and is preparing legal action, while the scandal adds pressure to Sánchez's administration and fuels opposition attacks amid internal party tensions.
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Spain is rocked by the publication of Sánchez's messages, which reveal insults, close ties to suspect Ábalos, and a suspicious bailout of an airline.
Too many threats are harassing our privacy today to begin to normalize that any of our conversations may appear reproduced on the front page, as has happened with that of the President of the Government and the former Minister Ábalos.A well-known 21st century newspaper is delighting us these days with the publication by delivery of some WhatsApp messages exchanged years ago between the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, and who was his …
What is the leaked WhatsApp messages scandal embroiling Spain's PM?
Leaked messages have revealed how Pedro Sánchez kept his MPs in line and referred to colleagues as “hypocrites” and a "disgrace". The texts also go some way to explain his close ties to an ex-minister at the centre of an ongoing corruption scandal.
I dare to recall that the cum laude Pedro Sánchez committed more than 40 misses of spelling in "his" doctoral thesis. In a work that served him to obtain the title of university doctor by Camilo José Cela University, he wrote many words with tilde when they do not carry it and vice versa, he removed it from those who do need it; he made a lot of errors of concordance; numerous serious errors and many errors of all kinds. For example, he wrote "c…
The messages leaked between Pedro Sánchez and José Luis Ábalos have been protagonists of the control session in the Congress of Deputies.
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