It happens from time to time: circumstances force the leader to toughen his speech. Pedro Sánchez, aware of the electoral disaster that the regional and local ballot box meant for the Socialists last Sunday, appeared before his parliamentary group and deployed heavy artillery. He charged against the media, pointed out the businessmen and warned of what awaits Spain if the right wing comes to power and enters La Moncloa with a spirit of dismantling.
The tone used betrayed the president, who faces 23-J as a plebiscite in which he positions himself as the only option to stop Spain from “going backwards” and catching the reactionary wave that Trumpism or Bolsonarismo have recently caused in the United States. United States and Brazil. An all or nothing in which the PSOE, despite being in the Executive, part at a disadvantage due to the strong impulse with which the Popular Party and Vox left 28-M.
Sánchez has also dissolved the PSOE
Hence, Sánchez adapted his rhetoric and radicalized his story, borrowing structural proclamations from Podemos that he used in the past, always when the wind blew against him and the socialist leader had to dress as Pablo Iglesias to overcome the spirit of the progressive space and champion the true left. The difference is that if to date he did it to condition his relationship with his fundamental partner, today he seeks to scratch votes for the space that Vice President Yolanda Díaz is designing.
“Only a single thought has been seen in the editorial lines”
October 30, 2016. “I'm not dead. Here I am”. Pedro Sánchez reappears after the historic collapse suffered by the Federal Committee and which concluded with his resounding resignation as general secretary. He did it just a few days later in an interview on the program Salvados, by Jordi Èvole, on LaSexta. This is the first time that Sánchez has turned to his left and hardened his speech, especially against the “attacks of the economic powers” that, “through the media”, sought to squander his leadership in the PSOE in order to stop a hypothetical rapprochement of Sánchez to Podemos, which was then an emerging and unknown force.
Pedro Sánchez, with a mask, during the pandemic (3-4-2020). . J. Martin EFE
“The media have been especially critical of me,” lamented the now president, who stressed that only “a single thought” was seen that day in the editorial lines, and all against him. Such was the degree of hardness and approximation to the postulates of the purples that Pablo Iglesias himself congratulated Sánchez: «Pedro has told the truth about the oligarchic powers today and has recognized that he was wrong with us. You're late, but thank you.”
The interview served Sánchez to atone for and relaunch his figure. Days later he would start touring Spain in his mythical Peugeot 407 in order to regain power. The rise since then has been unstoppable.
«The economic and media powers are not going to break us»
June 26, 2022. The coalition government is advancing at a forced march, but it has been advancing for two and a half years now. And it has overcome all imaginable obstacles: a historic pandemic, a volcano, a diplomatic conflict with Rabat and even a war on European soil.. The economic whiplash derived from the conflict, however, put the Executive of Pedro Sánchez on the ropes like no other.
Faced with rising inflation, the president once again brought out the harsh argument against the media and the main companies in the country. “It is evident that this is an annoying government for certain economic interests, which have their media terminals and also their political terminals,” launched the head of the Executive the same day that he announced one of the various social aid packages with which La Moncloa tried to offset the imposing price escalation.
Pedro Sánchez, yesterday, after the meeting with the parliamentarians of the PSOE,
“It is a reality that we have been suffering for four years,” Sánchez confessed then to recover his critical tone and defend the management of the PSOE and Podemos in the Government. And he asserted that the coalition's road map, despite the pressure, had not undergone modifications: “I already tell those interests that of course they are not going to break us.”
“The vote of a bus driver is worth the same as that of the president of a television channel”
May 31, 2023. After the municipal and regional bump, Sánchez activates the electoral advance to try to stop the wear and tear and stand up to the right and the power with which he faces 23-J. Before his deputies, the president charges against the PP and Vox, whom he puts in the shared bag of the “extreme right”. He resumes the attack on the media – “They are going to launch lies and traffic in lies” – and advances a scenario if Feijóo wins marked by the repeated loss of social rights. Sánchez promises to contain the drift “no matter how powerful they are who are behind” the “mob”. “The vote of a bus driver is worth the same as that of the president of a television channel,” compares the president.