This Wednesday, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has made public a statement in which he asks if he should resign and resign from the presidency of the central Executive after the investigation of his wife, Begoña Gómez. It will be next Monday, April 29, when Sánchez reveals whether he will continue to be president and, for now, he has canceled his agenda.
In this sense, the Court of Instruction number 41 of Plaza de Castilla, in Madrid, has opened an investigation against Begoña Gómez after being sued for alleged crimes of influence peddling and corruption private by Manos Cleans on April 16.
How Clean Hands works and more high-profile cases
Clean hands It is a Spanish union that originated in 1995. to represent employees of the public service. However, they have been protagonists of various media cases at the political level due to the complaints they have presented when presenting themselves as accusations.
The organization It was founded by Miguel Bernardwho stood for the National Front in the elections to the European Parliament in 1987 and 1989. It has more than 6,000 members and, as indicated on its website, they are “the first and only union in our country, which has been demanding, among others objectives, to achieve the independence of the Judiciary and the true and real democratization of our institutions”.
Since its founding, Clean Hands has been present in trials such as those that occurred after the 11-M attacks. In this case, they filed complaints, without success, against judges Juan del Olmo and Baltasar Garzón, and against prosecutor Olga Sánchez. Also, as a private accusation, they were present in 2011 in the Andalusian ERE scandal. Likewise, they appeared against Iñaki Urdangarin and Infanta Cristina for the Nóos case.
