{"id":34609,"date":"2024-04-24T20:31:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/spains-leader-says-hes-considering-resigning-as-wife-faces-investigation\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:31:49","slug":"spains-leader-says-hes-considering-resigning-as-wife-faces-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/spains-leader-says-hes-considering-resigning-as-wife-faces-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Leader Says He\u2019s Considering Resigning as Wife Faces Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/24\/multimedia\/24spain-fmqz\/24spain-fmqz-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Spain\u2019s Leader Says He\u2019s Considering Resigning as Wife Faces Investigation\" title=\"Spain\u2019s Leader Says He\u2019s Considering Resigning as Wife Faces Investigation\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Spain\u2019s prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, said late Wednesday that he was considering resigning after a judge opened an investigation into whether Mr. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s wife had abused her position to help friends win public contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The development stunned Spain and threw the political future of perhaps Europe\u2019s most prominent progressive leader into doubt only months after he defied widespread expectations by putting together a fractious coalition and securing a second term in power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI need to stop and think,\u201d Mr. S\u00e1nchez wrote in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/1783181535337734409\/photo\/1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a long letter<\/a> published on his X social media account on Wednesday evening. He canceled all political engagements until Monday to decide, he said, whether he \u201cshould continue to lead the government or renounce this honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Recently, Mr. S\u00e1nchez had seemed to overcome another significant obstacle by assuring that the Catalan independent movement would support his coalition, making his second term in government seem sturdy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But all that changed on Wednesday morning, when a judge responded to a formal complaint by a far-right group, Manos Limpias, and ordered an investigation into evidence against the prime minister\u2019s wife, Bego\u00f1a Gomez, for alleged influence peddling. Further details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the long letter published on X, Mr. S\u00e1nchez argued that the accusations were motivated by his political opponents, the People\u2019s Party, or PP, and Vox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a post on X, the PP party responded, \u201cHis problem is not political, it\u2019s judicial and is responsible for an episode that stains the international image of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is an operation of harassment and demolition by land, sea and air, to try to make me weaken politically and personally by attacking my wife,\u201d Mr. S\u00e1nchez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added that he would hold a news conference on Monday to inform the country of his decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/24\/world\/europe\/spain-pedro-sanchez-wife.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, said late Wednesday that he was considering resigning after a judge opened an investigation into whether Mr. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s wife had abused her position to help friends win public contracts. The development stunned Spain and threw the political future of perhaps Europe\u2019s most prominent progressive leader into doubt only months after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/24\/multimedia\/24spain-fmqz\/24spain-fmqz-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4408,4107,4824,1891,19057,38060,942],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34611,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34609\/revisions\/34611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}