“If I were Sanchez, I would think about calling elections.”

After the corruption scandals of Santos Cerdán and José Luis Albalos, the head of the Philippine National Party, Aitor Esteban, distanced himself from the government and advised President Pedro Sánchez to consider calling elections.

In an interview published on Sunday in DiaryAitor Esteban warns that the PNP’s relationship with the government will change, because his party is not there to implement the electoral platform of Podemos or the ERC.

“During the legislature we We swallowed things we wouldn’t swallow now“It’s good now,” Esteban points out. If we have to implement the Podemos agenda, the Somare agenda, some things from Beldo and Esquerra, and above all, the extra icing on the cake that the PSOE offers us… Well no! Don’t count on us“.

The NPP president does not fully believe that the government has the real will to implement the 2026 budgets, because he realizes that He no longer has the support of Junts or Podemos.

“I think they could even bring it forward, but they would delay it as much as possible to make it closer to a potential election call,” he admitted in the interview.

This indicates that the president has no other way out, given the loss of the parliamentary majority and the corruption scandals surrounding the government.

“I don’t want to say that I will sign the decree dissolving Parliament tomorrow, but if the situation continues like this, I will do so,” says the Philippine National Party chief. I will think about how and when“Calling elections.

He adds, “At this time, none of us can guarantee the stability of the government.”

Etor Esteban admits he was not too surprised by the scandals that have plagued former minister José Luis Albalos: “There were already some rumors that he had a rather complicated life (let’s leave it there),” he says very tactfully, but “the Cerdán case is very surprising.”

Then he warns:The accusations against Cerdan and Abalos are very serious“An additional source of concern that threatens the stability of the government.

The PNV is regaining its traditional balance, blaming the People’s Party and the Socialist Workers’ Party equally for the rise of the far right.

“The Socialist Workers Party encourages this because it is a way to undermine the Popular Party,” explains Aitor Esteban. “The People’s Party does not dare to approach other parties and joins forces with Vox so as not to escape any further. By giving this speech and putting it in the regional governments, it legitimizes it.”

Etor Esteban also does not believe that the proposal launched by the government “Protecting the right to abortion“By reforming the constitution.

“It is a hoax because what you are proposing actually weakens the right to abortion and modifies all constitutional jurisprudence,” Aitor Esteban says in the interview.

In his opinion, Pedro Sánchez launched the initiative only “to wave the flag, but to lie to the people because he knows that it will not work either and that there is not a three-fifths majority in Congress. You cannot play with these things.”