The coalition partners have Sánchez cornered: "Either he arrests him or there will be elections."

BarcelonaFaced with the trickle of sexual harassment and corruption cases plaguing the PSOE, the second vice president and public face of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, demanded on Friday that the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, carry out a "profound change within the [Spanish] government". "This cannot continue." “The time for reflection, changes, and cosmetic reforms is over,” she declared in an interview on La Sexta. “It’s a turning point, and it’s time to act.” The Second Vice President indicated that it is not up to her to decide whether or not to call early elections, but reaffirmed that a “profound reformulation” of the government is necessary, as it no longer has the support of either Podemos or Junts per Catalunya. Sumar was not alone in this Saturday; other partners in the government, such as ERC and PNV, joined in. She called for “firm actions and commitments” to democratize institutions “where democracy has not yet arrived” and also to end all forms of sexual harassment and corruption. Junqueras, the ERC spokesperson, and Gabriel Rufián were much more lenient with the PSOE, insisting on the importance of preventing a PP-Vox government.

The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) has expressed a similar sentiment. Its president, Aitor Esteban, warned that "either the Socialist Party (PSOE) manages to stop the hemorrhage of daily news" or Pedro Sánchez will have to "seriously reconsider when he calls elections," because it's "not serious to endure this for a year and a half." In his address at the PNV's 9th General Assembly, the party's leader opined that the Spanish president "should be even more worried." According to Esteban, "this trickle of scandals is worrying and discouraging," and if you add to that "the inability to pass a budget and the permanent negative majority" in Congress, with "the exception of some legislation that is occasionally approved by cross-voting," you can conclude that "the legislature doesn't look very promising."

The People's Party (PP) and Vox are rubbing salt in the wound.

Those who have capitalized on the scandals plaguing the PSOE are the right and the far right. The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on Saturday branded Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez "cynical" and "hypocritical" for having tried to "cover up" the "corrupt" and "sexist" individuals within his ranks, and asked, "How far has the PSOE's degeneration gone?" During a rally in Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres), Feijóo denounced the PSOE as a "degenerate" party, "in the image and likeness" of a person who "has taken it over," referring to Sánchez, whom he accused of also wanting to take over the country and its institutions. "He has tried to cover up each and every one of his corrupt members until the situation spiraled out of control, and he has tried to cover up the sexist individuals who abused women in the PSOE," he declared. For this reason, Feijóo concluded his speech by emphasizing that the PP's victory in Extremadura will be "the first step in the change that Spain needs: Extremadura has never had such an opportunity to influence national politics." Meanwhile, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, stated that a "corrupt mafia" governs Spain and "has become a danger to Spanish women," while also claiming his party as "the party" that "defends" them. "The danger to women is the PSOE and the feminism of Irene Montero, which releases rapists, takes them out of prison, and puts them back on the streets," Abascal declared at the closing of a rally, also in Extremadura. Following this, after asserting that he has been denouncing this "mafia" for five years and that he has done so "alone," the Vox leader stated that when the media referred to his party as "extremists" seeking to "polarize society," Vox "wasn't exaggerating at all," but rather "was understating the case."