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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Spain’s prime minister faces difficult week as wife and ex-PM summoned before judges

Pedro Sánchez sits in a chair in front of dark wooden panelling in the Congress of Deputies in Madrid. He is holding a hand to the side of his face and ear as if he is listening to something, perhaps via an earpiece, and looks serious and pensive.
Pedro Sánchez has found his family, his party and his administration engulfed by a series of scandals. Photograph: Chema Moya/EPA

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is facing one of the longest and most difficult weeks of his premiership as his wife and his fellow socialist predecessor prepare to appear before judges investigating them for alleged influence peddling and other offences.

Sánchez, who came to power in 2018 by promising to end the corruption that had mired the ruling conservative People’s party (PP), has found his family, his party and his administration engulfed by a series of scandals.

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