Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez surprised the country by announcing he will continue as the country's leader at a news conference where he was expected to announce his resignation. CGTN’s Ken Brown reports.
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00:00 Who needs Netflix when we have Spanish politics? Today Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain,
00:06 announced that he is staying on as Prime Minister and President of the Government.
00:10 After five days of deliberation, thinking about whether it was worth continuing in politics
00:16 or continuing as Prime Minister or not. Last Thursday, last Wednesday, it was announced that
00:23 his wife Begoña Gómez was under investigation for corruption. He says that this is part of
00:28 the right-wing mudslinging machine and Humberto Eco quote there, Sánchez says that this is all
00:35 part of a concerted campaign that he's had to deal with for the past 10 years. Fake news and lies,
00:42 accusations, slurs and insults against him and his family that are generated from the right-wing,
00:49 according to Sánchez. Now over these five days we've had a maelstrom of a real political storm.
00:55 The right says that Sánchez has turned the country into a spectacle. The left came out
00:59 in support of Sánchez, rallied around him, thousands of people on the streets of Madrid
01:05 and Valencia and beyond. Today he came out and dropped another bombshell that he is going to stay.
01:11 Pedro Sánchez, King of Shocks.