What is the leaked WhatsApp messages that the Prime Minister Spain has involved?

The youngest political scandals that never ended in Spain, who concentrated on the leaked private WhatsApp messages by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, concentrated in which he describes colleagues as “hypocritical” and “shame”.

He calls his own Defense Minister Margarita Robles Una Pájara – A non -flattering way of describing a cunning and unscrupulous woman – and Pablo Iglesias, his former deputy Prime Minister and the then leader from far left, the “stupidity” and described him as politically “awkward”.

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The news is also interesting in that they show how close Sánchez was on José Luis Ábalos, former transport minister and number two in the Socialist Party (PSOE), and how dependent on him as his political fixer. Since then, Ábalos has left his post in the middle of allegations of corruption.

Posted in an exclusive of the right -wing El Mundo At the weekend, the leaked news unmatched Sánchez. But is this story as big or as important as it has been emphasized?

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Sánchez 'WhatsApp scandal

In the messages, Sánchez ordered his then right man to maintain party discipline and to suggest Dissens from his own ranks. In doing so, he refers to his own colleagues in flattering terms.

It also raises further questions about how much Sánchez personally knew about the alleged corruption El Mundo And opposition parties might have hoped. However, further leaks could follow.

Ábalos has been involved in the current case of Caso Koldo Corruption for well more than a year, one of several alleged corruption investigations related to Sánchez 'Inner Circle in recent years, including his brother and his wife.

The leaks have caused and given and stated within the PSOE, when the opposition of the fresh ammunition (PP) is entered in the opposition to attack the government, which is now in power during their seventh year of life.

The news was discovered in the house of Koldo García, the former advisor of Ábalos, as part of the investigation of the case. More news has been published since then El MundoThe first splash, although the WhatsApps apparently reveal more about internal party management and how the Sánchez government starts from La Moncloa.

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What do the news say?

Without a “smoking weapon” with regard to corruption cases, the messages may be most interesting for their insight over how Sánchez rules behind closed doors.

The messages show an incredibly high degree of trust between Sánchez and Ábalos, in which the former minister acts as the closest and political executor of the Prime Minister. This was already well known, but to see it in private messages, reinforced how close they were and how much Sánchez died on daily party management.

“I missed them many times and also their friendship,” said Sánchez in a message after Ábalos left his post when he was immersed in accusations of corruption.

In Spain's highly developed autonomous community system of the government system, the messages also show to what extent Sánchez was worried about PSOE in regions of Spain.

In particular, Sánchez contacts Ábalos, to control critical regional presidents such as Emiliano García page, President of Castilla-La Mancha and long-time critic of Sánchez 'deal with basken and catalan separatists as well as Javier-Lambán (Extra (Arageón) and Guilermo) and Guilermo) and guilermo).

Some of Sánchez 'language are strong for a prime minister who has granted, but maybe not for private messages. Nevertheless, the prime minister used terms such as “Heuchler” and “shame” to refer to his region Barones (Barone) and ordered Ábalos to call them to avoid public disagreements to sensitive questions.

In particular, after a non -flattering interview that the regional president gave, Sánchez sent Ábalos: “It would be a good idea for her and Santos to give him a blow to his wrist and to tell him that he should stop playing around,” said Sánchez.

Who leaked the private news of the PM?

It remains unclear. Speculations in the Spanish media – and it seems to be hardly more than that, initially indicates that there are four possible possibilities of how these private conversations could come to light: a leak within the Supreme Court; of investigators in the Spanish central operational unit (UCO) of the Guardia Civil, which examines the Caso Koldo; by Koldo García herself; Or Ábalos.

Spanish media reports indicate that Ábalos keep the news in the file in order to write a memoir later.

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Are Sánchez's private messages important?

For political experts and Spanish chatter classes, these leaked WhatsApp messages are initially fantastic gossip and secondly, like Sánchez – a man who is widespread throughout the spectrum as a ruthless political operator.

In many of the stock exchanges, Sánchez read interviews that were led by his own cabinet ministers or regional presidents, and ordered Ábalos to discipline them.

An interesting look behind the curtain is in reality for political nerds that the prime minister (in every party, in every country) wants to maintain internal party discipline, and a political unit is not surprising.

If his private words could become important, perhaps even from dangerous politics, it is, if more messages are leaked, the clear evidence shows that Sánchez had knowledge of the Koldo affair or another ongoing corruption examination.

A drip feed of the personal messages of the prime minister would inevitably be harmful and contributes to the growing feeling that the Sánchez government is tired and is chosen in the next elections whenever it comes.