Specially created post was 'unnecessary and meaningless,' said judges
MADRID – A local court has condemned the brother of Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister, for administrative malfeasance over a public post that was created to give him a salary.
David Sánchez, a classical musician and orchestra director, has been sentenced to nine years of disqualification from public office linked to his appointment in 2017 at the local council of Badajoz, in the southwestern region of Extremadura.
The premier’s brother has been condemned alongside Miguel Ángel Gallardo, former president of the same council and regional leader for Sánchez’s Socialist Party (PSOE), who has been banned from office for 18 years.
According to the court ruling seen by newspaper El País, all 11 convicted individuals had taken part in the creation of an “an unnecessary and meaningless public sector post” within the local council “with the aim of ensuring that it was filled” by the brother of Pedro Sánchez.
