There is not a day in which Pedro Sánchez is not faced with a judicial scenario in his environment or aggravated. And there is not a day in which his name does not appear with his own profiles in criminal investigations. For example, the resignation of Juan Lobato as leader of the Madrid socialists is an inseparable event, politically, from his testimony as a witness, tomorrow, before the investigating magistrate of the case against the State Attorney General, opened in the Second Chamber. Lobato’s resignation from the General Secretariat of the PSOE in Madrid is the result of the retaliation unleashed by Pedro Sánchez after ABC’s information about the involvement of La Moncloa in the leak of the emails of Díaz Ayuso’s partner to the Prosecutor’s Office. But if the PSOE believes that this resignation has settled the problem that Lobato represents for Sánchez, it may be very wrong because it is now followed by his judicial declaration, with the obligation to tell the truth and without organic ties with the party that would lead him to soften his testimony.
With this resignation nothing ends and a new judicial stage will most likely begin in which the accusations of Lobato’s direct and indirect interlocutors –Pilar Sánchez Acera and Óscar López– appear as very plausible options in the long term. And at some point, in this case or in that of Ábalos and Aldama or both, it will be Sánchez himself, still the immediate superior of López and Ábalos at the time, who will have to testify, at least, as a witness. He already did it in the case of his wife, Begoña Gómez. It will not be possible for Ferraz and La Moncloa to always keep him out of investigations in which, in one way or another, paths are drawn that, well paved by evidence and pointed out by those directly involved, end in the Presidency of the Government.
Pedro Sánchez has claimed the political life of Lobato, the only one not suspected of having committed a crime in the murky story of the leak of confidential emails sent to the State Attorney General’s Office. This is how Sanchismo writes its story about the mud: it protects those who, in its jargon, would be “alleged criminals” and decapitates those who, perhaps clumsily, perhaps very confidently, refused to participate in a machination with all the signs of a crime.
Reality has an unstoppable force. For this reason it is imposing itself on the fiction that Sánchez propagates. Just yesterday he accused the PP, in the plenary session of Congress, of “having a patrimonialist concept of the State” and of “using the institutions for the benefit of their family and friends.” Saying this on the same day that a Badajoz court – after an impeccable initial investigation, summons his brother, David Sánchez, and the leader of the Extremaduran PSOE to testify as under investigation – reveals that the President of the Government lives in a flight forward without other sense than to postpone their political responsibility as much as possible. Thus, the list of those criminally investigated by Pedro Sánchez’s family is growing by the day, benefiting from State institutions, be it the facilities and an official of La Moncloa (his wife), or the Badajoz Provincial Council (his brother). Crimes against the public administration, such as those attributed by the Badajoz investigating judge to David Sánchez. Decency, that virtue that Sánchez claimed from Rajoy in his electoral debate, is what challenges the President of the Government in the face of the corruption that surrounds him and that he points out to him.
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