Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said that he will suspend public duties until next week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched an investigation of his wife.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said that he will suspend public duties until next week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched an investigation of his wife."I urgently need an answer to the question of whether it is worthwhile whether I should continue to lead the government or renounce this honour," he wrote.
Mr Sanchez said the seriousness of the attacks that he and his wife were receiving merited a measured response. The court investigating Ms Gomez did not provide further details as the case is sealed and preliminary, only saying it followed a complaint raised by anti-graft campaign group Manos Limpias - Clean Hands - whose leader has links to the far-right.
Manos Limpias said Ms Gomez used her influence as the wife of the prime minister to allegedly secure sponsors for a university master's degree course that she ran.
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