Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez Won’t Quit Despite Wife's Graft Probe

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that he would continue in office in response to a graft probe of his wife, which he says amounts to a campaign of harassment, Sarah Morris reported for France 24.

Sanchez has said the move against his wife, Begoña Gómez, is part of a campaign of "harassment" against them both waged by "media heavily influenced by the right and far right" and supported by the conservative opposition. I Photo: La Moncloa - Gobierno de España Flickr

Sanchez announced week that he was mulling resignation after a Madrid court opened a preliminary probe into suspected influence peddling and corruption targeting his wife, Begoña Gómez.

"I need to stop and think whether I should continue to head the government or whether I should give up this honor," he wrote in a four-page letter posted on X, formerly Twitter.

Thousands of supporters massed outside the headquarters of Sanchez's Socialist party in Madrid on Saturday chanting "Pedro, stay!"

Sanchez has said the move against his wife is part of a campaign of "harassment" against them both waged by "media heavily influenced by the right and far right" and supported by the conservative opposition.

Spain's public prosecutor's office on Thursday requested the dismissal of the investigation.