Spain’s Improviser PM Sanchez Keeps His Entire Country on Alert

  • Prime minister’s wife is currently under investigation
  • Sanchez says wife being targeted by far right, and he may quit
Pedro Sanchez, with his wife Begona Gomez, in Granada, in 2023.Photographer: Paul Hanna/Bloomberg
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Spain’s Pedro Sanchez is giving the country five days to think about what life would be like without him.

The Socialist prime minister is taking a break from public view as he considers whether to quit over a criminal investigation against his wife, something he says is a right-wing stitch-up.