Spain’s prime minister says he will consider resigning after wife is targeted by judicial probe

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1. If you are a criminal – “consider” prison. If you are not – why resign???

2. Lawfare. It worked against Antonio Costa.

3. If he resigns it’s terrible news. If far-right organizations have the power to take down the president by making up things about her wife, that’s a serious threat to democracy. But well, nothing too unexpected, the far-right control of the media has been ever more apparent these last years.

4. It’s just a charade to play victim once again. And to avoid giving answers about his wife.

   He doesn’t deceive anyone anymore.

   I could bet 1.000€ he doesn’t resign

5. This seems like a political move tbh. Seems like he is sure the claims are bogus and he is shifting the attention to the courts, so he addresses them directly by letting the judges rule on it.

   If it is what is happening, my hat is off to him. Him and Tusk seem like the only european leaders who know how to hurt the far-right

6. He’s not going to resign. It’s a way to put the attention on the judicial case because he wants everyone to see how ridicule it is. It’s all “someone in TV said that his wife did this”, “someone in a newspaper wrote that his wife did that”. It’s like making a case out of rumors and made up information. Its absurd.

   But this is how the right wing is doing politics lately. They make up accusations, then they bring it to the judge, and then they overreact when they get a judge to investigate those accusations. All their cases fall apart in court, but they make campaigns for months about how certain person is being investigated.

   And also the organization that made this lawsuit is well known for their incredibly stupid cases against people who curses against god, against parodies of the holy week, and stupid things like that.

7. Let’s see, Pedro can blame whoever he wants but it is a strategy.
   In a month it will be very difficult for him to govern Spain.

   If the polls are correct in the Catalan elections, the PSOE will have to offend a partner that now supports it in the central government (probably Puigdemont’s party, which is also increasingly asking for more and more concessions)

   The amnesty law, which had to be legislated to satisfy Puigdemont for his 7 votes and which wears him down politically, will be delayed.

   A big scandal is coming for European funds (two managers have already resigned)

   Court rulings in Europe are also approaching…

8. He says he is considering resigning because of the attacks against his wive, including opening an investigation (by a judge on the opposition’s payroll) against his wive, that surely is not involved in any shady business.

   This is just a prospective investigation whose only intention is to fill headlines the opposition party can use in its mud war, because is the only thing that PP does, propaganda without any substance, that, and corruption. Lying is free.

9. [lol](https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/s/kzUfRkXBoY)

10. not in a thousand years, that guy really loves it

11. The judicial probe was started by a far-right group and taken by a judge that had already accepted two judicial probes in the past from the same far-right group that ended with no accusation.

    I know that this sub loves to hate on this man, but this is literal lawfare.

12. he will resign will the “highest honors” lol what a clown

13. Dirty politics are detrimental for the whole society, opposition does not care about the country and media machinery and judicial scum enjoying themselves.

    Hard times for moral people.

14. The corruption and the prominent far right presence into the judicial system in Spain is well known for everybody. But while the targets are catalans and left wing parties like Podemos nobody cares. Now the target is him and everybody cries. Pedro Sanchez helped to create that monster that treatens to devour the already cheap spanish democratic system.

15. Lawfare puppeteered by right and far right wing parties, nothing new under the sun in Spain. This kind of maneuver took portuguese government of Antonio Costa to an end without justification, and if it happens now again in Spain we will be surrendered to those far right controlled mafia judges.

    We can say a lot of things about Pedro Sanchez, but this is lawfare, and a brutal attack on what people voted democratically. Spanish judicial system is so rotten, always playing in the right wing’s hands. We can still hear Franco laughing in his grave.

16. Extreme-right gaslighting and harassing people, nothing new, sadly.

17. If his wife is the problem, he can always leave her for me! I’ll take him! 😍

18. Dear readers, specially the ones who are not familiar with Spanish politics: Kindly note that in Spain the government is the largest donor (they label it as “institutional advertising”) BY FAR for pretty much every relevant published media in the country. That includes radio, TV channels, paper press, etc.

    That means that whenever you hear, read or watch something from any major Spanish media talking about our government take it with a grain of salt, as most probably that information is manipulated, twisted or straight away lies in a way to benefit the current government. That also means you should not blindly believe whatever someone will post here, as it is very possible that person is influenced by these lies or is straight away a bot. AND YES, THAT INCLUDES MYSELF, don’t blindly believe what I am saying here, if you are really interested do your own research, look for the sources and reach your own conclusion.

    Now that you know that information let’s get straight to the point regarding this whole case: There is a Spanish company called Globalia which at the same time has a subcompany called Air Europa, and the directives of that company had a very close relationship with the president’s wife Begoña Gómez during the pandemic, then suddenly the government announces certain express rescue to help that company without giving any proper argument other than “it is a strategic company for the country”. The assistance for Globalia reached 1.1b€.

    It is not the only case known where Begoña used her position as wife of the president to benefit certain people close to her or to who she owed something, but that is not the topic here so I will not go deeper into that.

    In any case, there is enough proof to, as a minimum, be suspicious that she used that power to benefit a private company with Public money (or the Government used Public money to benefit a private company, whichever way you want to look at it). Now, I am no expert and I don’t have all the proof that the Judge must have at this moment, therefore the wisest thing one can do is to wait until he will clear it out and go ahead with the case if there is any.