In Spain, “Captain” Sánchez is struggling through the “storm”
The political survival of the Spanish Prime Minister, surrounded by legal cases rocking his party and his entourage, is hanging by a thread, according to the press across the Pyrenees. On Wednesday, July 9, the Socialist leader is due to appear before the Congress of Deputies in Madrid.
“Like a shipwrecked man clinging to a tree trunk in the middle of a storm and hoping that at sunrise he will have a beach in sight, [Pedro] Sánchez thinks he still has a chance. Distant, certainly, but not unattainable.” As the Catalan newspaper Ara states , the Spanish Prime Minister “no longer has a single ally: time […] to try to overcome the crisis” that is shaking his political party, the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), and, by extension, his government.
Less than a month after one of his former close associates and PSOE executives, Santos Cerdán, was implicated in a major corruption scandal, Sánchez gave a major speech to the deputies gathered at Congress in Madrid on Wednesday, July 9. The socialist leader's "long-awaited" intervention has the air of an "ultimatum," observes the Barcelona daily La Vanguardia .
The socialist is expected to announce "a package of measures" to combat corruption and ensure " democratic regeneration " in Spain, the centrist newspaper predicts. He will then address the increase in Spanish military spending demanded by NATO .
Some parties, “such as Podemos [radical left] and ERC [Catalan Republican Left]”, which support the government in Parliament
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