Pedro Sánchez tells Congress: 'I never knew of, nor would I have tolerated, any of these practices'
Spain's prime minister appeared before the Congress of Deputies on Wednesday to address the wave of corruption cases surrounding his government, party and family.
"I am fully aware that public debate has been flooded with judicial news," Pedro Sánchez said at the opening of his address, after briefly reviewing the latest European Council meeting and before turning to the core of his speech: the court cases involving the PSOE, his partner Begoña Gómez, and his brother David Sánchez. "I do not downplay their importance in the slightest — they are essential to understanding what is happening in our country beyond the judicial sphere."
"It is worth bearing in mind that behind this string of leaks there are political actors who are trying to conflate issues in order to confuse people," Sánchez added, as he set out a timeline of the Koldo case following this week's Supreme Court rulings against José Luis Ábalos, Víctor de Aldama and Koldo García.
"These are rulings that the government respects and will comply with, as it must. In this country — the great democracy that it is — there must be no impunity for corrupt individuals, whoever they may be," he said.
