Profile Santos Cerdán, the Man in the Shadow Who Did Not Blink to Fulfill Sánchez's Orders

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The triumphal return of Pedro Sánchez as general secretary of the PSOE in 2017 to Ferraz on the back of the militancy would not be understood without José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán. That is why the blow inflicted by the investigation of the Central Operating Unit (UCO), the anti-corruption unit of the Civil Guard, is so colossal. It strikes in the heart and the engine of a party shaken by a harsh crisis. The involvement of two consecutive Se…