US Edition'A Witch Hunt': Spain's PM Denies Corruption in Rowdy Senate Hearing
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'A witch hunt': Spain's PM denies corruption in rowdy Senate hearing
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday testily denied alleged Socialist corruption before a rowdy Senate committee investigating a scandal that has rocked his government, calling the probe "a circus" and "a witch hunt".
Spanish PM: Senate Corruption Probe ‘A Circus’
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez described a Senate committee hearing into a corruption scandal as “a circus,” amid investigations that have ensnared former Socialist officials and his own wife. The probe concerns alleged kickbacks for public contracts for sanitary equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, involving close allies of Sánchez who helped him rise to power. Sánchez defended his party’s finances as “absolutely clean” and rejected ca…
Pedro Sánchez has appeared in the Senate this Thursday in an exercise of parliamentary escapism in order not to shed an apex of light on the questions that arise about the funding of the PSOE. «I do not know», has been the constant answer to the interrogation deployed by the PP. A cascade of questions that, due to overflowing, prevented the president from articulating an answer. The government had prepared a strategy of delegitimization to the U…
The Spanish Prime Minister's Senate hearing on the corruption scandal of some of his trusted men takes place on Thursday 30 October in Madrid, under the watchful eye of the right-wing opposition.
Pedro Dominginhos, President of the National PRR Follow-up Commission, is aligned with the expectations of the executive. He says that it is possible to "reprogramming in progress".
The expectation is maximum this Thursday in the Senate before the appearance of the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, in the committee of inquiry of the Koldo case, which supposes his return to the Upper House almost twenty months later. The Senate is again the center of the informative attention, with more than 270 accredited journalists, including international press. Sánchez is facing a tough appearance in which he is defending that…
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