MADRID (AP).— The president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, ended yesterday several days of speculation regarding his future and announced that he will continue in office.
Sánchez shook the country last Wednesday by announcing that he would take five days off to think regarding his future, following a court opened a preliminary investigation once morest his wife over corruption allegations.
“I have decided to continue, and continue with more strength, if possible, at the head of the presidency of the government of Spain,” he said in a televised speech following informing King Felipe VI of his decision yesterday.
His resignation would have deprived Europe of its longest-serving socialist leader, who leads one of the most prominent countries in the European Union, just before the European elections in June.
For its part, the leadership committee of the Popular Party (PP) received Sánchez’s decision that he was not going to resign with laughter, the newspaper “El País” reported.
The popular leadership was meeting at the PP headquarters on Génova Street when the President of the Government appeared to announce that he had decided to continue in office. And Sánchez’s decision, which they had anticipated, was hilarious to them, according to hard core sources, so some burst into laughter.
The PP, Spain’s main opposition party, saw its thesis that Sánchez would not leave confirmed and reinforced its stereotype of the PSOE leader as an unscrupulous politician clinging to office.
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2024-05-11 03:03:45
