As a close comrade in his Socialist Party was placed under investigation for allegedly taking part in a kickback scheme, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez pleaded with the country on Thursday for forgiveness.
The unpleasant case is the most recent legal controversy that has plagued Sánchez’s closest party circle and his family for the past year. None of them have progressed past the preliminary inquiry stage, and no one has accused Sánchez of any misconduct.
He made reference to Socialist legislator Santos Cerdán when he remarked, “I want to ask for forgiveness from the public because the Socialist Party and I as its general secretary not should have trusted him.
Speaking at the Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid, Sánchez said he had only learnt about Cerdán’s corruption allegations just hours before and repeatedly pleaded for forgiveness from the Spanish population. Cerdán, according to Sánchez, is arguing for his innocence.
Sánchez’s public gesture of repentance follows a judge’s probe into his wife Begoña Gómez for possible influence peddling, fourteen months after he took a five-day break to think about his political future.
The Spanish leader stated Thursday that he would commission an external examination of the Socialist Party’s financial records, but he declined to call an early election, as his rivals had been calling for months.
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