{"id":27762,"date":"2024-04-29T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/spains-sanchez-says-he-will-stay-on-as-pm\/29\/04\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:29:00","slug":"spains-sanchez-says-he-will-stay-on-as-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/spains-sanchez-says-he-will-stay-on-as-pm\/29\/04\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s Sanchez says he will stay on as PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MADRID, April 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Spain&#8217;s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday that after a period of reflection about his future he had decided to continue as the country&#8217;s leader.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, in power since 2018, had shocked the nation last week when he announced in a public letter on X he was taking time out from his duties to reflect on whether it was worth carrying on as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>It followed news that a court had opened an investigation into allegations of influence peddling and corruption by his wife Begona Gomez. A separate court is considering an appeal by Madrid&#8217;s prosecuting authority to dismiss the case for lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted his wife was innocent and accused opposition leaders Alberto Nunez Feijoo of the People&#8217;s Party (PP) and Santiago Abascal of the far-right Vox party of collaborating with those circulating claims against his wife. (Reporting by Charlie Devereux, editing by Andrei Khalip and Inti Landauro)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/spains-sanchez-says-stay-pm-090737273.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID, April 29 (Reuters) &ndash; Spain&rsquo;s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday that after a period of reflection about his future<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/spains-sanchez-says-he-will-stay-on-as-pm\/29\/04\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}