Pedro Sanchez is facing the biggest crisis of his seven-year premiership after Santos Cerdan, a former high-ranking official in the Socialist Party (PSOE), was recently arrested on allegations of corruption and involvement in a sex scandal. In mid-June, Cerdan resigned from his party positions, left the PSOE, and gave up his parliamentary seat after the Spanish Civil Guard released a report accusing him of unjustifiably favoring certain construction companies in public procurement contracts in exchange for illegal kickbacks, which he allegedly passed on to former Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos and Abalos’s former advisor, Koldo Garcia Izaguirre, writes V4NA.
