Sánchez now has 126 people under investigation in Spain's corruption cases

How many people under investigation surround Sánchez? The figure now exceeds his own MPs

The steady drip of formal investigations into cases touching Spain's government shows no sign of stopping. This week, two key figures — the chairwoman of SEPI, the state holding company, and the director general of the Guardia Civil — have been placed under investigation, joining 25 new cases peine in recent days. The total now stands at 126 people under investigation in more than a dozen proceedings, a figure that, according to the opposition, exceeds the number of Socialist MPs in Congress.

The scale is quantitative, but also qualitative. With the leadership of the state's investment company and the head of the armed police force under judicial suspicion, the spotlight is now on the heart of the administration. Meanwhile, on the political front, the debate has drifted toward side controversies. The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, sparked an uproar when he described workers on sick leave as "cancer" and "fraudsters", an outburst that has diverted attention from the cascade of investigations.

With 126 people under investigation, the government holds on, with no case yet reaching trial. The opposition highlights the paradox: never have so many investigations surrounding a prime minister generated so little institutional response. The irony is that, while the government boasts of democratic renewal, the machinery of the state is accumulating suspects at a rate that is becoming impossible to ignore.