Throughout his third term as President of the Government, and during the months of negotiations which preceded it, Pedro Sanchez He faced countless seemingly intractable political imbroglios driven by his stubborn desire to retain power. Out of all of them, he seems to have somehow managed to emerge victorious.
The problem is that this reckless political style has involved successive headlong rushes, which may be on the verge of falling over the precipice. And even if Sánchez escaped other crises, I have never received so much devastating news in a single day as I did on Black Monday..
The most damaging to his story was the very severe order of the Provincial Court of Madrid, which gave carte blanche to the instructor to continue the investigation. Begoña Gomez for alleged influence peddling. It only excluded the facts relating to the rescue of Air Europa.
The Court’s support for Peinado destroys the Government’s argumentwho insists on the fact that the judge “has not pedaled anything for six months”.
The truth is that Begoña finds herself in a much more compromised situation today than yesterday, since the magistrates are asking the judge to investigate Gómez’s “takeoff of his professional activity”; the “existence not only of a professional interest in the field of teaching, but also of a personal interest in the field of business”; and the “striking” growth of contracts Carlos Barrabés facing “temporal proximity” with the creation of the Gómez Chair of Competitive Social Transformation at the Complutense University (UCM).
and the Begoña affair It is in turn divided into two other fronts: the one opened with the UCM, after Gómez accused the University of its decision to cancel the last master’s degree that he had co-directed there; and the one that opens next Tuesday, when Sánchez’s wife will have to go to the Madrid Assembly to appear before a commission of inquiry that will study whether there was “nepotism” in her relationship with the University.
The second front that seizes Sánchez is that of the internal protest in his party, externalized by Luis Tudanca this Monday, accusing Santos Cerdan to “suspend the voice of activism” for the cancellation of the first PSOE primaries in Castilla y León that he had called. A protest that promises to reverberate in more federations, if other socialist barons follow Tudanca’s path and challenge Ferraz.
The third front is that of corruption affecting a former member of his Administration: that of the alleged corrupt conspiracy dedicated to the illegal collection of commissions in contracts awarded by the Ministry of Transport when he headed it Jose Luis Abalos. As published by EL ESPAÑOL, the National Court is investigating the insurance company for fraud. Victor de Aldamathe alleged commissioner of Koldo affairwho rented a chalet in Ábalos in 2021.
The last of the enigmas that overwhelm the president is that of the parliamentary blockade.
The Government’s legislative impotence was definitively recognized by the Minister of the Economy, who confirmed this Monday that the Executive refuses to send its 2025 budgetary plan to Brussels on the date required by European budgetary rules, October 15 . A consequence of the delay in negotiations with its parliamentary partners, which forced it to withdraw the treatment of the stability path, thus violating article 134.3 of the Constitution which obliges the Executive to present the EMP to Congress “for at least three months before expiration. of those of the previous year”. Deadline expired on October 1.
Sánchez not only loses battles, but also nerves. The president has come to believe his own account of a siege by a far-right political-media alliance. And by presenting himself as the savior champion of the country’s progressive majority against the “mud machine”, he, his family and his political environment freely attacked anyone who contradicted him.
But now the whole string of absurdities carried out by Sánchez in recent months emerges at once, since the purchase of legislative power in exchange for amnesty.
It is demonstrated that It was hasty to request Begoña’s file at such an early stage of the investigationgiving the Court an opportunity to give Peinado a boost. Just like his pantomime of the five days of reflection and the expectation he created in her that the investigation into his wife would soon be closed, was ill-considered.
Begoña’s mistake is demonstrated when she clashed with UCM, the university that protected her, and called the cancellation of her master’s degree “surprising” and “unilateral.”
The madness of his crusade against the media and judges is demonstrated. And even more so when his own co-religionists came to accuse him of using the same methods as the “fachosphere” of which he declares himself a victim. Or when media that are not part of their “pseudomedia constellation”, such as The economistthey expose their Caesarist ambitions.
And as if that were not enough, the government is faced with the situation of either canceling the legal change that would allow dozens of ETA members to be released from prison, or being denounced for having been discovered during a deceptive maneuver to include secret reform. would benefit, among others, Txapote.
Sánchez dedicated himself to overcoming obstacles in his path through erratic acceleration. And all these slip-ups now threaten to take him off the track.
