Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez to run for re-election despite corruption investigations

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced connected Wednesday that helium plans to tally for re-election erstwhile his word ends successful 2027, successful spite of the corruption scandals embroiling his Socialist party.

"I americium determined to tally successful the adjacent general election successful 2027," Sanchez told reporters connected Wednesday.

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In the latest successful a bid of scandals, Sanchez is presently nether probe for alleged graft successful his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). While Sanchez — who has served arsenic premier curate since 2018 — has not been straight implicated, the country's absorption has called connected him to resign, according to BBC News.

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón arrives astatine Huis 10 Bosch Palace for a meal hosted by the King and Queen of The Netherlands during the NATO Summit 2025 connected June 24, 2025, successful The Hague, Netherlands.  (Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images)

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Earlier this month, Sanchez issued an apology aft audio was released that seemingly showed PSOE caput Santos Cerdan discussing improperly awarding nationalist contracts successful speech for commissions, BBC News reported.

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who is besides a person of the Socialist ruling enactment (PSOE), holds a property league aft a Socialist Party gathering pursuing a elder official's alleged graft lawsuit astatine office successful Madrid, Spain June 16, 2025.  (REUTERS/Nacho Doce)

Shortly aft the quality broke, Cerdan resigned from the PSOE and stepped down arsenic a subordinate of parliament. On Friday, police entered the party's office to transcript Cerdan's emails, according to Reuters.

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A Spanish emblem is seen connected the thoroughfare successful Krakow, Poland, connected March 6, 2025.  (Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

On June 12, the Spanish premier curate said helium would not telephone caller elections earlier the extremity of his existent term.

Cerdan, who is slated to look earlier the Supreme Court connected June 25, says helium has ne'er committed a transgression oregon been implicit successful one, Reuters reported.

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Sanchez is 1 of Europe's longest-serving socialist leaders. His wife, Begona Gomez, is nether probe for imaginable concern irregularities. His brother, David Sanchez, is owed to spell connected proceedings for alleged power peddling, according to BBC News.