Overview

• Santos Cerdán, the PSOE’s secretary for organization and third-ranking official, quit after intercepted calls suggested he managed bribes totaling hundreds of thousands of euros
• The case ties back to last year’s ‘caso Ábalos’, which implicated former Transport Minister José Luis Ábalos and associate Koldo García in similar graft allegations
• Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez apologized for not knowing about the Guardia Civil’s corruption report sooner and announced a shake-up of the party’s executive committee
• Sánchez has ordered an external review of the PSOE’s accounts and vowed to enforce a zero-tolerance policy on internal corruption
• Opposition parties Popular Party and Vox are pressing for Sánchez’s resignation and early elections, but he has ruled out any vote before 2027