Still a judicial earthquake shakes the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE)this time to fall is a loyal to the premier Pedro Sánchez. The secretary of the party organization, Santos Cerdán – number three of the socialist machine – was forced to resignationoverwhelmed by the so -called “Koldo case”, a corruption investigation that risks overwhelming not only the party, but the same tenant of the Moncloa.
According to what emerged from a report from the Central Operational Unit of the Guardia Civil, and confirmed by a judge of the Supreme Court, there would be “consistent clues” that nail Cerdán for the role played, in “connivance” with the former minister José Luis ábalos and with Koldo García, in a network of tangent and procurement made for public works. Under the lens, bribes From hundreds of thousands of euros, under the underhaban agreements and a network that, from 2019 to 2023, would have operated in the shade of the institutions with the complicity of high poppies of the PSOE.
Pedro Sánchez, visibly in difficulty, once again, showed up in front of journalists for try to save the face. “I apologize to the citizens and the party militants, I was convinced of the integrity of Cerdán,” said the premier, speaking of “serious clues” and promising an internal investigation. Then, as per the script, he took refuge in the melodramatic tones: “I am sad, this political project is doing good for millions of people”.
But in Madrid no one believes more to the crocodile tears of Sánchez. Because this scandal arrives in a very black moment for the head of the government, already weakened by a barrage of investigations that affect its magical circle: the wife, Begoña Gómez, is investigated for corruption and traffic of influences; his brother David will soon end up on trial; Even the prosecutor general, tied to the government, risks big for a news escape.
To precipitate the situation is also the long shadow of the former minister Ábalos, already torpedoed in 2021 precisely for a similar scandal linked to health supplies during the pandemic. A déjà-vu who now reappears, with a disturbing detail: Cerdán had been appointed his successor by Sánchez, who had also armored him to the last party congress. A appointment that today appears at least rash.
The judicial storm triggered one revolt In the squares: in Madrid, in Calle Ferraz, about 600 demonstrators gathered in front of the PSOE headquarters. To support them, Vox, the anti-caste movement “If Acabó la Fiesta” led by Alvise Pérez and the Revuelta youth group. The protests turned into a sound dispute against the premier, with choirs, banners, and even songs of the phalanx. The signal is clear: patience is over.
The center -right opposition, with the popular leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, did not waste time and has boiled as “insufficient and disappointing” the prime minister’s justifications. But, realistically, it will not present any motion of censorship, since not even with Vox it would be able to obtain the necessary numbers. Meanwhile, requests for resignation multiply.
The PSOE, which came to power in 2019 promising “democratic regeneration” after the scandals of the right, now finds itself bogged down in a judicial mud that seems endless. And while Sánchez excludes early elections – for fear of a defeat that would be overwhelming – the government allies, from Podemos to the radical left, silent or simply ask for “explanations”. But they too know that the polls today would be a sentence …
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