US EditionSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez Under Attack From All Sides After Graft Shock
- Former Socialist Party official Santos Cerdán was arrested on Monday and sent to Soto del Real prison in Madrid amid corruption allegations.
- The arrest followed an inquiry into a network of illegal commissions involving public works contracts and has intensified political instability for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
- Sánchez called for party reforms to combat graft, named Rebeca Torro as Cerdán's replacement, and announced plans to address the scandal at a party committee meeting on Saturday.
- Governor Emiliano García-Page called the scandal one of Spain's most serious since democracy's restoration, while consultancy Teneo sees early elections as the likely outcome but does not rule out Sánchez completing his term in 2027.
- Opposition parties, including the Partido Popular, are pressing for Sánchez's resignation and early elections, but the fragmented parliament and coalition dynamics make a no-confidence vote unlikely to succeed.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez under attack from all sides after graft shock
As allegations of corruption against a former aide began to circle three weeks ago, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez couldn’t bring himself to believe them, according to people close to him.
Santos Cerdán went into prison on Monday, 30 June. It has been three days since he was admitted to prison as a provisional measure and details are beginning to be known about how the former number 3 of the PSOE would be. At the moment, the information that is being known is not positive. This Thursday it was Jorge Luque, journalist of the team of 'PlateAR ' (Telecinco), who has given some details about it to Frank Blanco , in live connection fro…
Former number three of the PSOE has filed an appeal against his release to prison without bail issued by the Supreme Court.
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