Sánchez goes on the offensive: distances himself from Ábalos and Cerdán, denounces persecution of his family and boasts about government action

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It has been almost a year since Pedro Sánchez was forced to appear in Congress to explain the judicial investigations that splash the PSOE. This Wednesday he has done so again in the face of the unstoppable trickle of cases that expand the list of suspects linked to the Spanish president, and with a firm corruption sentence against the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos. Unlike the appearance on July 9 last year, in which the head of the executive presented a battery of anti-corruption measures to address these cases , on this occasion Sánchez has gone on the offensive without making any new proposals. In an initial half-hour speech, the socialist leader distanced himself from both Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, his two former organization secretaries, defended José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and denounced "persecution" against his family. Furthermore, the head of the executive boasted about his government's actions. "There should be no shadow of a doubt about the executive's actions," he proclaimed, also defending that there has been no illegal financing of the PSOE.