Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez [profile] announced Monday that he would enter a bid to end judicial immunity [press release, in Spanish] for politicians, in an effort to end corruption.

One hundred days after replacing his Conservative predecessor, Sánchez announced the initiative in an attempt to restore peoples’ confidence in politics. “The challenge we have is for citizens to believe in politics once more,” he said in a Madrid address.

Passing this bid will be a challenge for Sánchez’s Socialist party, which holds only 84 of 300 seats in Parliament—any such reform requires an absolute majority in the Senate and a two-thirds majority in Congress Additionally, many of Sánchez’s enemies question his legitimacy due to claims that he plagiarized his own doctoral thesis [El País report], a claim for which Sanchez threatened legal action last week.

Sánchez hopes to increase penalties for politicians who are caught driving drunk [El País report], holding money in offshore accounts, and conducting other illicit activities.

Sánchez seeks to pass this bill within 60 days.