Pedro Sánchez's party has gone on the counterattack after what happened in the last week. The President of the Government blames the attacks on his wife on the “mud machine” formed, in his opinion, by political adversaries together with certain media outlets, which he describes as disinforming. The first move of the leader of the PSOE after confirming that he is going to remain in office to lead the “democratic regeneration” has been to appear at the National Court to demand that Judge Manuel García-Castellón accuse the number two of the Interior leadership of the time of Jorge Fernández Díaz, as well as former Police Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, known for his participation in the so-called sewers of the State, for investigating Sánchez's entourage when he became general secretary of the PSOE in 2014.
Following an audio published on Friday by La Vanguardia, it has been revealed that the Villarejo clan then tried to “politically kill Pedro Sánchez.” In a conversation between the former commissioner and the then Secretary of State for Security, Francisco Martínez, the former explains to the PP politician the progress in his investigations to investigate the life of the family, in this case the father of Begoña Gómez, the wife of Sanchez. From the audio it is clear that both agreed to allocate resources and more police to continue investigating.
Begoña Gómez's father was attributed the ownership of various saunas in which prostitution was supposedly practiced, and in their meeting, Villarejo and Martínez came to the conclusion that the revelation of this fact would reveal and destroy Begoña's political career. Sánchez, taking into account the feminist agenda that she promoted in the Socialist Party.
The plan then was to use the pseudo-union Clean Hands to spread information and open legal cases through complaints in court.
This audio intercepted by the internal affairs unit of the Police after Villarejo's arrest in November 2017 now takes on greater relevance as it was precisely Manos Cleans who filed a complaint against Begoña Gómez for an alleged crime of influence peddling after the publication of several journalistic information that places her as a link between businessmen who would later benefit from public tenders, a complaint that was admitted for processing by a Madrid judge. This fact was what caused Sánchez to take five days of reflection to consider whether he would resign, a step that he ultimately did not take.
For this reason, the PSOE has decided to go to the National Court to investigate this operation against Sánchez orchestrated by the Interior leadership during the Mariano Rajoy government and alleges that this alleged investigation was carried out with public money, for purposes "exclusively “partisan” and unrelated to the functions of the ministry.
