Tension in Congress amid cries of Sánchez's "resignation"

President Pedro Sánchez has been subjected to cries of "resignation, resignation" in the plenary session of Congress in its first session following the resignation of his former deputy, Santos Cerdán, over his involvement in the alleged commission scheme involving Koldo García and José Luis Ábalos.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez , who attended the Plenary Session of the Control Session held every Wednesday in Congress, boasted of "expelling" corruption from the PSOE and attacked the PP with the "encyclopedia of corruption" that, he said, exists in its CCCA (Commonwealth Councils). The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo , accused him of being the "wolf that has led a corrupt pack all these years" and stated that the only letter they expect is his resignation.

Interrupted at the end by cries of resignation from the opposition benches, Feijóo denounced Pedro Sánchez's "very dangerous shift away from the popular will": "He came to say 'I'm not resigning because Spain needs my progressive policies, but I'm not calling elections because I'll lose them.'"

In their response to the leader of the People's Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as he recounted the alleged corruption cases affecting the "People's Party" regional governments, the deputies of the main opposition party began shouting "resignation, resignation." While the Speaker of Congress called for calm, the deputies of the Socialist party stood up to applaud their leader at the end of his speech.

One day after Sánchez's letter to the Socialist Party members , the PP president stated that "the only letter they expect is a letter of resignation." "Are you planning to write it, or do you no longer have any respect for the Spanish people?" he asked, while denouncing the fact that he is "trying to buy off" his parliamentary partners. Feijóo denounced Pedro Sánchez's "very dangerous shift away from the popular will" : "He came to say, ' I won't resign because Spain needs my progressive policies, but I won't call elections because I'll lose them.' "

The Prime Minister has asserted that "the only advance there will be is not the elections, but the more than logical sentencing of many corruption cases affecting the Popular Party after the summer ." "The PP is an encyclopedia of corruption with regional chapters. If you want to teach lessons, you have a lot ahead of you," he told the Popular Party, boasting about his party's performance following the UCO report.

Sánchez considers that the case that led to Cerdán's resignation is the "anecdote", but not the "category", and has stressed that "the left does not steal" and that the so-called 'Koldo case' is not the PSOE's Gürtel plot, he told the ERC spokesperson in the Lower House, Gabriel Rufián , when he addressed the head of the Executive to find out "what he is going to do" in the face of everything that is happening after the UCO report that points to the PSOE's organization secretary Santos Cerdán for the alleged collection of bribes.

Rufián has demanded that Sánchez make it clear that this is not " the PSOE's Gürtel case ," and that if the coalition government falls, it will be the PSOE's "fault" if it continues to fail to act . In response, Sánchez responded to the pro-independence leader by warning that the only thing currently available are "indications" collected in the UCO report and not a "final ruling" condemning the former socialist leaders or the PSOE for irregular financing. "I will not accept that you make anecdotes into a category because the left doesn't steal," he declared.

Vox leader Santiago Abascal , for his part, left the Congress chamber after questioning Sánchez, but without waiting for his reply, something that the Prime Minister criticized for the "lack of respect" towards the institutions. After asking him "how much money his entourage has stolen", Abascal told Sánchez that he was not going to stay to hear his response because he expected "lies, deception and arrogance" and he could no longer stand "the way he humiliates and deceives the Spanish people."

"You are indecent, corrupt, and a traitor," he added, and walked off, while members of his parliamentary group shouted "shameless" and "useless" at the president. Sánchez responded to the "absent" Abascal, lamenting that "the far right brings hatred, a lack of coexistence, and a lack of respect for institutions." He also maintained that in the seven years of Socialist government, "there has not been a single corruption sentence" against the executive branch, although investigations are currently underway against "three former Socialist militants."

Sánchez then recalled the sanctions imposed by the Court of Auditors against Vox for irregular financing, the alleged corruption case affecting Valencian councillor Juanma Badenas, the loan granted to the party by a Hungarian bank linked to Viktor Orbán and the diversion of seven million euros to the Disenso Foundation, chaired by Abascal, which was denounced by former leader Macarena Olona, ​​finishing his reply by reading some statements by former Vox MP Macarena Olona, ​​such as "Vox stinks of corruption" or that the party has gone "from everything for the country to everything for money".

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