David Sánchez's anticipated statement at the trial over his hiring at the Badajoz Provincial Council lasted 10 minutes and 20 seconds. He was only questioned by his lawyer, Emilio Cortés, who asked him 25 questions about his office, the change in his job title, and the hiring of a friend who helped him. Sánchez, however, made no mention of how he obtained the job in 2017. He also did not allude at any time to his brother and the President of the Spanish government. In fact, in the statements of the rest of the accused and witnesses of the day, there was a common element: no one knew - according to what they said - that Pedro Sánchez had a brother.

"It cannot be allowed for any person, whoever they may be, to develop their professional aspirations using public resources, to the detriment of other more qualified individuals or other more pressing needs." After a year of investigation, this was one of the conclusions that led Judge Beatriz Biedma to send David Sánchez, nine officials from the Diputación de Badajoz, and also the then leader of the PSOE in Extremadura to trial for the crimes of prevarication and influence peddling. The popular prosecutions are requesting three years in prison for the brother of the Spanish president. Under scrutiny is the creation of his job at the Diputación de Badajoz, which allegedly was created to be directly awarded to him, and the hiring of a friend who "unofficially" helped him from Moncloa. During the preliminary proceedings, Sánchez's brother's lawyer, Emilio Cortés, alleged that the investigation was "prospective" and had a "political inspiration." "The root is rotten," he lamented. And he reproached the popular prosecutions for wanting to conduct an "scrutiny" or "historical déjà vu" about a hiring from nine years ago: "A procedure that has never been appealed by any administrator, in such a way that we will search to see if we find any flaw," he concluded.

The course of the judicial investigation against David Sánchez, brother of the Spanish Prime Minister, complicates the prospects for both the person under investigation and the Socialist leader, whom the PP has been quick to ask to resign as head of the executive once it has been made public that the judge in Badajoz investigating the case has decided to prosecute David Sánchez for influence peddling. With this decision, to which ARA has had access, the head of the investigating court number three of the Extremadura province, Beatriz Biedma, leaves him on the verge of trial for the case of your hiring as head of the Performing Arts Office at the Badajoz Provincial Council.