The President of the Government closed his official trip to India with a press conference during which only national policy was discussed. Pedro Sanchez tried to talk about the “relaunch” of bilateral relations “after 18 years without the visit of a Spanish president” in this country with “enormous opportunities” for trade and investment in the fifth world economy.
But the epidemic of Errejon affair and the two new felony charges against his wife – who accompanied him on the trip – made that impossible.
In any case, after 10 almost monothematic questions, Sánchez managed to place a title that sought to change the burden of proof, since it was formulated in judicial terms: “We will continue to govern, as is our obligationto transform Spain. We’ll do it until 2027, that year the left will have reorganized itself and they will be presented again, and I will win again… Feijóo or another leader who presents“.
This statement responded to a penultimate question, in which he was asked what sentence he would say to his voters, overwhelmed by corruption cases, the collapse of Sumar and the delay of budgets in Congress.
For Sánchez, “it is indisputable that Spain is experiencing one of the best times over the last 20 years”, because the economy has grown “four times the eurozone average”, jobs have been created “like never before” and there is “peace social”.
The president undertakes to “govern” and calls on journalists and voters to “look up” on the vicissitudes that surround it, whether in the headlines of the press, in the courts or in the Cortes: “We have had six years of extraordinary transformation of Spainwe reindustrialize the country, we approach immigration in a different way from other countries, we defend social causes like feminism and we uniquely embody peace in the Middle East and Ukraine… there are reasons to be proud“.
But more precisely, about the last “difficult week”according to journalists, within a period black octoberthe socialist leader did not change the scenario.
The two new charges against his wife, for alleged crimes of embezzlement and trespass, have left Sánchez unchanged, his gesture has not changed: “Where there is nothing, nothing can be taken”he declared. “These are the same far-right associations that presented each of the complaints to my wife, so they will follow the same path.”
It was only in his words that one could glimpse a certain nervousness. And he says, in a blasé tone, that “We’ve been doing the same thing for almost a year”…while in reality, the Begoña affair He is now only six months old. GOOD It was the end of April. when he took the famous five days of reflection, upon learning of his wife’s first accusation.
In any case, he added that “They wrongly accuse him”. And that, therefore, he maintains his “confidence in Justice, in the rule of law and in time to put things in their place”.
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