Corruption Investigations in Spanish Government

And in that context, I'm very curious to ask you about the fact

that your

wife, your brother, your former attorney general,

your former chief

of staff, your wife's personal assistant are among

nine different corruption investigations currently ongoing into your

government. Um, some people are in jail in

connection to this, some people are on trial, some people

are under indictment.

And so I'm curious when we have this conversation about how

to restore faith in

government and how to shed the perception that government is influenced by

dark money, how you see yourself and your government at a

time when according to European Commission opinion polls, many

Spaniards think that you're one of the reasons behind corruption within Spain.

Thank you.

Well, thank

you

Thank you. Thank you, thank you for, for this question.

I would say that, uh, of course,

we suffer some cases of corruption.

And I think that when it happens,

uh, no matter the countries,

I think that what you, uh, must ask your government

is to respond effectively.

And this is what I did.

With the cases of corruption

that are truth, and unfortunately, my government and my party suffer.

But this is one side,

and there's another one which brings me to my family, my

wife and my daughter, um, and my, and my brother.

Uh,

and sorry to say, those are not corruption

cases or scandals.

Those are other thing.

And, uh, to me,

well, I think that the opposition and some far-right associations,

uh,

have crossed, uh, some red lines that bring me

to, to a reflection that I would like to share with you as a

politician.

Being prime minister or politician

is, is rewarding because you can do a lot of

things for your country.

And I'm proud to say that I did a lot of things for my country,

and there's the outcome

and the evidence and the facts.

But to suffer this personal attack

is, uh,

is very difficult to assume.

Very difficult to assume.

And it's much more difficult

because, um,

a, a young student like you,

you already condemn them,

and you say that my brother and my wife are guilty,

and this is not fair

because they are not.