Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is taking a break from public duties “to think about the future”. It happens while his wife is being investigated for corruption.
His wife, Begona Gómez, is also being investigated for illegal influence.
In the letter published on Wednesday evening, Sánchez writes that he will think about whether he wants to continue to be at the forefront of Spanish politics.
– I urgently need an answer to the question of whether it is worth it, whether I should continue to lead the government or resign from this task, he writes.
Earlier on Wednesday, it became known that a court in Madrid has decided that Gómez will be investigated. The investigation was launched on 16 April and is otherwise classified, it says.
The announcement came after the online newspaper El Confidencial linked Begona Gómez to several companies that have received grants and public contracts from her husband’s government. One of the companies will be Globalia, which, among other things, owns Air Europa.
The airline was threatened with bankruptcy during the corona pandemic, but Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the Spanish government saved it by injecting just over NOK 5.5 billion.
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