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PSOE denounces "dirty war" against Sánchez. Spaniards take to the streets in support
The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) denounced today a "dirty war" by the right and far right against the country's prime minister and his family, based on disinformation campaigns, asking Pedro Sánchez not to resign.
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The Federal Committee meeting is taking place at the PSOE's national headquarters in Madrid, and thousands of people are also gathered outside the building, showing their support for Sánchez, with party flags and posters asking him not to resign.
Sánchez revealed that he was considering resigning on Wednesday, the same day that a court confirmed the opening of a "preliminary inquiry" involving his wife, Begoña Gómez, for alleged influence peddling and corruption, following a complaint by an association linked to the far right that the Public Prosecutor's Office has since said has no basis, requesting the case be closed.
The PSOE and Spanish government leader said that he and his wife have been the victims of a "mud machine" from the right and far right for months, in which two parties - the Popular Party (PP) and Vox - are "collaborators" of an "ultra-right digital galaxy" that spreads rumours and lies, in personal attacks that are then taken to the political debate.
Sánchez said on Wednesday that he did not know if it was "worthwhile" to continue leading the government in the face of "the quagmire" that the PP and Vox "intend to transform politics into".
The PSOE Federal Committee, the party's highest body between congresses, met today in Madrid in a meeting that turned into a demonstration of support for Sánchez, with appeals for militants and supporters to do the same, taking to the streets.
At the opening of the meeting, which is being broadcast on screens installed in the street outside the PSOE's national headquarters, the deputy secretary general and deputy prime minister, Maria José Montero, denounced the "dirty war" against Pedro Sánchez and his family by the Popular Party and far-right associations, comparing it to phenomena and campaigns that have occurred in Brazil, the United States, Argentina and "many European countries".
Maria José Montero said that "the main weapon is disinformation" and the objective is "the dehumanisation" of politicians by parties and sectors that do not accept electoral results and considered it urgent to defend political debate and democracy.
"If we close our eyes (...) it will be democracy itself that sinks into the mud," she said.
"Democracies regress when people think that power does not depend on their vote," she added.
Maria José Montero considered that in Spain there is "an unbreathable situation created on the basis of lies and hatred" and accused the PP, the traditional right-wing party, of "having dropped the cordon sanitaire around the far right years ago" and having entered into a "spiral of feedback" with extremist forces, even mentioning the name of the current leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
In addition to several direct requests to Pedro Sánchez not to give in to "the mud machine", because "Spain cannot go backwards", Maria José Montero also addressed the Prime Minister's wife, in a moment of her speech that was applauded standing by the PSOE Federal Committee and supported, with shouts and applause, also by the demonstrators outside the building.
"Begoña, my dear, we are all with you. We women know what it costs to build a professional career, to always be under scrutiny and to always be demanded more," she said.
National, regional and municipal leaders of the PSOE, gathered in Madrid in the midst of the election campaign in Catalonia, are speaking at the Federal Committee in support of Sánchez, in line with what has been happening in recent days, including "barons" of the PSOE who are usually critical of the party leader.
The PP and Vox accuse Pedro Sánchez of playing the victim and putting on "a show" that embarrasses the country internationally, in order to divert attention from suspicions of corruption and to campaign on the eve of several elections.
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