Spanish Socialists Hit with Major New Corruption Scandal

El Pais

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The scandal of corruption that has erupted in the soul of the PSOE is a new, terrible blow for the European Social Democracy. At the dawn of this century, the historic political family was at the head of the executives of Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden, as well as of the presidency of the European Commission. Today in its narrow perimeter of command stand out the United Kingdom — where the Labour…

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For the past two years, several relatives of the socialist president of the government have been the subject of investigations into suspicions of bribes. On Thursday, Mr Sanchez had to demand the resignation of the key man of the apparatus of the socialist party, Santos Cerdan.

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Fragmented by the questioning of a relative in a bribe case, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez apologized but excluded new elections.

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Charles Louis de Secondat (1689-1755), Baron of Montesquieu, of the separation of powers that so many today try to send to the loft of oblivion, also wrote that “corruption rarely begins with the people.” The tsunami that plagues the PSOE confirms it. Power often encourages the most soulless to become corrupt. And the more power, the easier corruption flourishes. Pedro Sánchez raised the banner of the fight against corruption to reach the govern…

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To date, Santos Cerdán, PSOE's secretary of organization, had not even been heard in a court hearing when the president of the government and socialist secretary general, Pedro Sánchez, took the guilt of his collaborator and direct subordinate and practically threw him out of the [...]