Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is under mounting political strain as corruption investigations, party raids, and widening legal probes converge into what opposition figures describe as a systemic crisis. Investigators from Spain’s Civil Guard carried out a raid on the Socialist Party headquarters in Madrid, seizing documents linked to alleged misuse of party funds and a suspected effort to obstruct legal proceedings targeting government-related cases.

Political corruption is eating Spain’s democratic system, warns the country’s chief anti-graft prosecutor

Search takes place amid intensifying focus on separate allegations of influence peddling as problems worsen for prime minister Pedro Sanchez