The Heat Is Turning Up on the Most Corrupt Party in Europe

<![CDATA[On the same day that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was in Rome meeting Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, police entered the headquarters of Sánchez’s Socialist Party in Madrid in search of material related to an investigation into corruption. The raid comes amid numerous scandals exposing Spain’s ruling party not as the moral party it portrays itself as — and that the Western left accepts — but as little more than a corrupt mafia, a claim supported by opposition parties and increasingly accepted by the public.]]>