ALERT: Sánchez does not respond to the rigging in favor of Barrabés, the SEPI or the Civil Guard, but recommends glasses for the eclipse
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The keys Generated with AI Pedro Sánchez avoids responding to the recent corruption scandals that affect the SEPI, the Civil Guard and the businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés. This week, 34 new defendants related to the PSOE have been added, including the director of the Civil Guard and senior officials of the Sepi. As the accusations grow, Sánchez has published a video on social networks giving advice for viewing the August 12 eclipse, without addressing the court cases. The PSOE spokesperson has downplayed the accusation of the director of the Civil Guard, claiming that it was “for making some coffees.” The PSOE has added 34 new defendants this week, including the director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González; the DAO of the armed Institute, Manuel Llamas, and a good part of the leadership of the State Society of Industrial Participations (Sepi). All this has led the general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, to point out this Saturday that the president of the Government is actually “the leader of a criminal organization.” Instead of offering explanations about these corruption scandals, Pedro Sánchez has reappeared this weekend with a video on his social networks, in which he offers advice on how to see the eclipse on August 12. “Surely you are already thinking about where to go see it and with whom. I’ll tell you a trick to choose the best place to see the total eclipse of the sun on August 12,” says the President of the Government in the recording. He also explains that the Executive has created “a very simple tool” called Trio of Eclipses. The website allows you to detect the best location “in a few seconds” to know “if you are going to have good visibility.” “And don’t forget your glasses,” says the president as a farewell. Many details about the eclipse, but not an explanation about the mountain of accusations and corruption scandals that surround the Government. In the Federal Committee last Saturday and in his previous appearance in Congress (on June 24), Sánchez acknowledged a single “case of corruption that affects the Organization Secretariat” of the party, starring “specific people who took advantage of their positions.” With this phrase, he tried to shake off the 16 cases being investigated by the courts regarding PSOE corruption, which now total 126 defendants. Sánchez did proclaim the innocence of his wife and brother, and denounced that the “fundamental rights” of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero have been “violated” by the dissemination of private conversations that appear in the summary. But since then, the scandals have not stopped happening. Emails from the public company Red.es have come to light, which prove the rigging of a contest in favor of Juan Carlos Barrabés, the businessman who helped Begoña Gómez set up her Chair at the Complutense University. The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz this week has charged the director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, and the DAO, Manuel Llamas, for the alleged crimes of continued prevarication and against the Administration of Justice. Both are summoned to testify on the 16th as defendants. The judge wants them to clarify the reason why they opened disciplinary files (reserved investigations) on several UCO agents who were investigating cases of corruption of the PSOE and relatives of President Pedro Sánchez. Judge Pedraz has also charged this week another 25 people, including seven directors and former directors of the Sepi in the plot involving the plumber Leire Díez. The last two presidents of the Sepi, Belén Gualda and Vicente Fernández, are already accused, as well as the vice president Bartolomé Lora (in his case, for alleged prevarication in the rescue of Air Europa). A week after his intervention in the Federal Committee of the PSOE, Sánchez has not considered it appropriate to give explanations about these cases of corruption. But he has decided that none of the accused will resign from their positions. Nor will the director of the Civil Guard, Mercedes González, who met three times with the plumber Leire. The PSOE spokesperson, Montse Mínguez, maintains that González is “charged with making some coffees.” This Friday, it was also known that the Treasury began to investigate the income of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, his wife, Sonsoles Espinosa, and the two daughters of the couple, Alba and Laura, a month after the search at the office of the former president of the Government. During that operation, the Police found jewelry worth 1.3 million euros. This has been communicated by the Tax Agency (AEAT) to the judge of the National Court José Luis Calama, who is investigating both Zapatero and his daughters in the so-called Plus Ultra case. “What is happening in Spain is a national tragedy,” the general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado, said this Saturday. “We have at the head of the government of Spain to the leader of a criminal organization. I’m not saying that,” he clarified, “the National Court, the Supreme Court and different courts say it.”
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Source: This article was originally published by El Español – Home and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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