Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.
As i said, i don’t doubt that there is corruption including in the PSOE, as there is specific evidence of it. The question i want to raise is, how extensive that corruption is and whether it justifies calling Sanchez a “crook”.
As a German speaker you maybe remember the media campaign against former German President Christian Wulff, accusing him of extreme corruption, whcih subsequently lead to him stepping down. Two years later and with ever more absurd accusations being piled on, the whole thing fell apart in court as nothing actually stuck.
There is an ongoing campaign against Sanchez, which mixes facts and fiction. For instance the charges against his wife come from a far-right-proxy trade union, which even acknowledged that it is “possible” for the accusations to be based on fake news.
On 24 April 2024, due to a court investigation of his wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged influence peddling charges presented by Manos Limpias, a far-right proxy trade union,[95][96][97][98] Sánchez announced through a letter in the X social network that he was considering his resignation from the position of prime minister, citing a right-wing media offensive to wear him down.[99][100][101] Several media noted how Manos Limpias’ charges against Sánchez’s wife were based on press headlines and fake news,[102][103] a fact that the trade union acknowledged as possible.[104] On 26 April 2024 and in a joint investigation, elDiario.es, El País and La Vanguardia newspapers revealed a plot by the PP, dating back to Mariano Rajoy’s government in 2014, to spy and produce information on Sánchez’s and Gómez’s relatives to “politically kill him” by using Manos Limpias to present criminal charges.[105][106][107] On 27 April, thousands gathered outside the PSOE’s headquarters in Calle Ferraz, Madrid, in an effort to persuade Sánchez not to resign.[108] The case has drawn comparisons to António Costa’s resignation in Portugal over the Operation Influencer investigation, which attracted criticism for several mistakes.[109][110][111][112] On 29 April, Sánchez announced that he would not be resigning despite a “harassment and bullying operation” and that he would be fighting “even harder” as prime minister.[113]
As i said, i don’t doubt that there is corruption including in the PSOE, as there is specific evidence of it. The question i want to raise is, how extensive that corruption is and whether it justifies calling Sanchez a “crook”.
As a German speaker you maybe remember the media campaign against former German President Christian Wulff, accusing him of extreme corruption, whcih subsequently lead to him stepping down. Two years later and with ever more absurd accusations being piled on, the whole thing fell apart in court as nothing actually stuck.
There is an ongoing campaign against Sanchez, which mixes facts and fiction. For instance the charges against his wife come from a far-right-proxy trade union, which even acknowledged that it is “possible” for the accusations to be based on fake news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Sánchez#Third_term_in_office