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Updated Saturday, March 16, 2024-2:20 p.m.

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The deputy secretary of Autonomous and Local Coordination and Electoral Analysis of the PP,

Elías Bendodo

, has announced the party's decision to expand the complaint they have filed against the president of the Government before the

Office of Conflicts of Interest

, after having learned of new data that , in his opinion, show that Pedro Sánchez benefited the interests of his wife,

Begoña Gómez

, from the Council of Ministers.

"Every day the scandals grow and one day's scandal covers the previous day's," said the PP leader in an appearance in the Malaga town of Mijas before announcing that his party will expand the complaint against the president after learning, as published this Saturday

El Confidencial

, that

Air Europa

agreed to pay 40,000 euros a year to Begoña Gómez's

Africa Center

just before the Council of Ministers chaired by Pedro Sánchez agreed to the multimillion-dollar rescue of the airline company.

Of that amount, the information adds, 15,000 euros would be reserved to pay for first class flights for the wife of the President of the Government and his team.

"The Council of Ministers," Bendodo stressed, "cannot benefit anyone's partner, much less that of the President of the Government."

" Sánchez

has to

clear

up

many

Spain and, furthermore, why he rewarded companies that had a clear connection with his wife," he added before demanding a "public appearance" by Sánchez "to clarify his role in this plot."

Bendodo has referred to this week as "disastrous for the Government and for the country", a few days, he recalled, "in which more details of the Koldo plot

have become known,

which according to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is a criminal organization" that , he added, "affects the Government of Pedro Sánchez."

"The fan broke down"

For the PP deputy, the most astonishing thing is that instead of giving explanations, Sánchez dedicated himself to "throwing mud and starting the fan to cover up the corruption that surrounds him" but, he stated, "the fan broke down and Sánchez's filth remains in his Government, in his party and in his house."

The

popular

leader has also attacked the Government for its decision not to present the State Budget project for the current year due to the fear that, with an eye on the imminent Catalan elections carried out by Pere Aragonès, it will not be able to attract support. of the independence parties, ERC and Junts.

Bendodo has insisted that the lack of Budgets is due once again to Sánchez's concessions to the independentists and has regretted that "all citizens have to be subjected to

Puigdemont

's blackmail ."

In this sense, he recalled Sánchez's words in 2018 when he assured that "a Government without budgets is as useless as a car without gasoline."

He has also referred to the approval this week in Congress of the proposed amnesty law, a pardon measure that in his opinion "has two beneficiaries: Puigdemont and Sánchez. One to get out of jail and the other to continue sitting in prison." "La Moncloa chair".

"This smells bad, it smells of decomposition," he insisted, "this is a Government surrounded by corruption, without Budgets, that swallows everything that the independence movement demands and in a permanent sit-down strike. We are facing the most precarious Government in democracy, it smells like the end of the cycle because everything depends on whether Puigdemont raises his hand or lowers it.

And he added: "The Spanish do not deserve this Government, which can be summed up in one sentence: zero Budgets and a lot of corruption."