The PP believes that the sentence of Pedro Sánchez’s brother, David Sánchez, to nine years of disqualification for administrative prevarication, represents another “historic” milestone.
After the sentence, the president of the main opposition party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, recalled Sánchez’s words, when he said that “the truth will end up prevailing.” “Well, here is” that truth, he tweeted. “The third conviction in his circle, after that of the former prosecutor and that of Ábalos, and unanimously by the chamber of the Provincial Court of Badajoz.”
“No one should be above the law, no matter whose family they belong to, it speaks well of our Rule of Law and should comfort all Spaniards,” Feijóo added on his social networks.
In statements to the media in the corridors of Congress, the PP spokesperson in the Lower House, Ester Muñoz, assured that “we are facing another historic day of Spanish democracy.” “There have been many, today is one more. For the first time in democracy, a Spanish Prime Minister has his brother convicted of a crime of prevarication,” she emphasized, “for giving him and plugging him a position in Badajoz.”
“This in any country would bring down any Government,” the PP spokesperson concluded.
Muñoz, who admitted to being “astonished” by the statements of those who, from the PSOE, see “lawfare” without having read the ruling, believes that “it is proven that Mr. David Sánchez knew that they were going to give him a position and simulated legality in the competition for that position.” “He knew he was not going to work, that he was being paid for not going to work, and he knew and was aware that later that position was modified to meet the requirements. He knew all that, it is proven in the sentence.
“Listen, what a coincidence that out of all the citizens in Badajoz the position fell to Pedro Sánchez’s brother. What a coincidence,” Muñoz continued, before once again calling for the president’s resignation.
“What would be happening to any European prime minister if today their brother were being convicted? What would happen to Macron if today the French courts were convicting his brother of prevarication?” she rhetorically asked.
Vox: “They have placed their entire family to plug them in”
For his part, for Santiago Abascal, the sentence against Sánchez’s brother is one more argument in favor of his thesis that the Government “is a mafia.” “And it governs because they have left us alone and demonized, for years, those of us who denounced it from the beginning,” he wrote on his social networks, also alluding to other judicial cases around the Executive.
“Sánchez is surrounded by indictments and convictions,” also criticized Vox’s number two, Ignacio Garriga, who considers that the “only reason” why the head of the Executive is not under investigation is his condition as president, “and that is why he does not want to let go of power.”
In the same vein, for Vox deputy José María Figaredo the sentence against David Sánchez “shows that these guys are crooks, real thieves.” In the corridors of Congress, the parliamentarian maintained that the socialists “have placed their entire family to plug them in to obtain money through public funds” and, while qualifying that he had not yet fully read the sentence, Figaredo pointed out that for Vox “what a judge says [seems] great.”
