Spain's Sánchez digs in after 8 years as PM, but can he survive wave of scandals?

Corruption probes of colleagues and relatives have put Spain's premier into a fight for survival.

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His musician brother, David, has just gone on trial accused of influence peddling.

Former Socialist prime minister and close Sánchez ally José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has been named in an investigation into alleged money laundering.

And police have raided the Socialist headquarters in Madrid as part of a probe into allegations of a dirty tricks campaign that the opposition has dubbed "the Socialists' Watergate".

These probes and others have generated a growing clamour by the opposition for Sánchez's resignation and speculation that his government might soon collapse.