The Civil Guard report spares no detail: payments recorded as "parties," "the whore from the other day," or "blowjobs", and conversations in which officials divide up women "for the weekend." All this while PSOE promotes laws to abolish prostitution and raises the banners of institutional feminism.
The column "Of Johns and Triangles," published by El País, highlights the hypocrisy of a party that preaches equality while its officials engage in the most cynical abuse of power. In the same outlet, journalist Luz Sánchez-Mellado points out the "structural machismo" and "the moral corruption of a rotten political class."
The impact has been devastating. Within PSOE itself, feminists such as Pilar Bernabé described the events as "disgusting and repugnant." Even from Sumar, Sánchez's coalition partner, breaking the government alliance is being considered. In Congress, opposition leaders accuse him, shouting, of being "indecent, corrupt, and a traitor."
The fall of Pedro Sánchez, if it occurs, will not be only because of ill-gotten money, but for having betrayed the values he pretended to defend. The left that promised "progressivism with a gender perspective" now appears as a machinery of abuse, cynicism, and excess, financed by Spanish taxpayers.
