Nine years of disqualification for David Sánchez: what the sentence says

David Sánchez, brother of the Prime Minister, was sentenced this Tuesday by the Provincial Court of Badajoz to nine years of disqualification for administrative misconduct.

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The political reactions have not been long in coming. The PSOE calls the sentence “outrageous,” while Esther Muñoz, spokesperson for the PP, argues that a ruling of this kind “would bring down a government in any country.”

In today’s episode, we analyze the sentence against Pedro Sánchez’s brother with our Courts colleague, Rocío Martínez Posada.

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