Sánchez: “I Asked Myself to Resign, but Throwing the Towel Is Not an Option”

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Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after the corruption scandal: "I have thought about resigning, but giving up is not an option". At the center of corruption is Sánchez' right hand Santos Cerdán

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Pedro Sánchez admitted to Congress that he had even proposed resigning and calling elections after the scandal unleashed by the devastating UCO report against Santos Cerdán, but he said that, after listening to many of his party’s people who have conveyed support to him and his parliamentary partners, he has decided to continue. “I am disappointed, first of all, because I appointed them. I have the responsibility and I assume it. They ask me to …

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The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez , has presented to the Congress of Deputies a plan against corruption «negotiated with the OECD» with fifteen specific measures, among them a control of the companies that contract with the General Administration of the State, the introduction of a preventive administrative confiscation that will allow to seize goods linked to scandals even if there is no criminal conviction or the conduct of annual…

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The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, has said that he considered resigning in the days after the outbreak of the corruption case that affects the former socialist leader Santos Cerdán. "It is clear that I was wrong to trust José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán," he said in his appearance in Congress to explain the details of that scandal.

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Opposition calls the party by Pedro Sánchez of criminal organization, and allies say that explanations are insufficient

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The first, which is "a clean politician." Sanchez has admitted that in this case it is "more difficult not to believe" his argument that he did not know of the "corrupteries in which they might be immersed" the former Secretaries of Organization Santos Cerdán and José Luis Ábalos. In this context, although he recognizes that people may have "doubts" of what he knew or does not have them.