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Sanchez wants to convince his partners at this Wednesday's plenary session by proposing anti-corruption measures

The meeting comes with the demands of the members of the PSOE Parliament to promote the initiatives on the table, as they believe that the response so far has been insufficient.

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Pedro Sanchez, President of the Spanish Government, in the Congress of Deputies.

The Spanish Government has acknowledged that much is at stake this Wednesday in the appearance of the head of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez , in Congress to announce anti-corruption measures, but hopes to renew the support of the partners.

Sanchez will make a double appearance in the Chamber: in the morning, to present anti-corruption measures at the session, and in the afternoon, to report on the latest international summits.

The meeting comes with the demands of the members of the PSOE parliament on the table, as well as the demands of their coalition partner Sumar to promote drastic initiatives following the crisis of the 'Koldo case' and the PSOE, which, in their view, have so far had little response.

Faced with this, the Government's spokeswoman, Pilar Alegría , said on Tuesday that a "robust" package of measures will be proposed and that most of the measures put forward by other groups, including several proposed by Sintre, will be taken up.

It has not specified anything, but according to Spanish Government sources, the penalties for corruption offences will be tightened and the guarantees that corrupt companies will not contract with the public administration will be strengthened.

Will there be a question of confidence?

Thus, MP Gerardo Pisarello of the Sumar group has warned that the president's appearance may be "the prelude to a question of confidence"; Coalición Canaria has already announced that it will ask for it, and Lukashenko does not rule out any options.

PNV sources have indicated that they will wait to hear from Sanchez to see if they have to open "any other folder" and ERC sources have asked to wait for the explanations to arrive to find out about the concrete measures.

ERC's congressional spokesman , Gabriel Rufián, hopes that Sanchez "will not be upset" with his appearance, and believes that it is of little use to ask the head of the Spanish Government a possible question of confidence.

The leader of Podemos , Ione Belarra, has once again rejected the idea of asking for a question of confidence because, in her view, the solution is to reject bipartisanship and sow another alternative.

Grass has declared that it expects only "cosmetic measures" and has stated that it does not have the capacity to lead the democratic regeneration that the country needs.

For his part, the PSOE spokesman for the Congress, Patxi Lopez, has been convinced that the partners will be "satisfied" this Wednesday with the "strong" measures that the head of the Spanish Government will announce against corruption.

50 PP questions

PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo will ask Sánchez 50 questions about alleged corruption cases in which the PSOE and its government are supposed to be involved and ask him to stop "lying" and tell "some truth," according to popular sources.

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