Pedro Sanchez

In Spain 17th July 2026

Prime Minister’s wife to stand trial for influence peddling and embezzlement

Unanimously, the five magistrates making up Section 23 of the Provincial Court of Madrid (Audiencia Provincial de Madrid) have agreed to greenlight the investigating judge’s proposal, Juan Carlos Peinado, to put the Prime Minister’s wife, Begoña Gómez, on trial before a popular jury. However, the five judges have reduced the four offences proposed by the investigator to just two for which she will stand trial: influence peddling and embezzlement. According…

In Spain, Relevant News Item 25th June 2026

King speaks of “dark days” while Sánchez entrenches himself in La Moncloa

The country is gridlocked. And yesterday this became clear to everyone. Yesterday, the Prime Minister appeared before Congress to answer for all the corruption cases surrounding him—within his family, his party, and his Government. And as expected, he limited himself to asserting that “he neither knew about it, nor would he have tolerated it.” Furthermore, although Puigdemont’s party—whom Sánchez granted amnesty in exchange for secure investiture—urged him to “do like…

In Spain 1st June 2026

PSOE old guard attempts to react as former leaders call for Extraordinary Congress

While the Prime Minister—who has gone three years without an approved budget, lacks a parliamentary majority, and is surrounded by corruption on all sides—insists on staying in power “until 2027 and beyond,” some historic leaders of the PSOE seem determined to fight back. This weekend, Emiliano García-Page, the president of Castilla-La Mancha and a long-standing figure within the party, mounted a fierce defense of state institutions, warning that “whoever retreats…

In Spain 20th March 2026

Sánchez says “no to war” invoking democracy and “no to democracy” invoking war

Parliaments emerged, to a large extent, to authorize the fiscal impositions of monarchs. It was unreasonable to impose fees and taxes without those affected by them having either a voice or a vote. Hence, the oversight role of parliaments remains one of their essential tasks. Controlling the state accounts every year and demanding accountability for what has been done or left undone in each fiscal year is a parliamentary task…

Spanish Politics 16th January 2026

Sánchez runs out of narrative; neither governs nor stops Vox

Aurelio Medel (5Días) | The Prime Minister lacks the support to tackle serious problems (such as housing), and the far right is the primary beneficiary of this inaction. Every week, the Government proposes new regulations, marketing them as solutions to real problems of varying urgency and complexity, but they ultimately come to nothing. This past week, it was the regional financing reform (rejected even by regions governed by the PSOE)…

In Spain 26th September 2025

Sánchez Goes Back on His Word Again, Now Saying He Will Seek a Third Term

On September 1, 2014, Pedro Sánchez announced that the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) would hold a convention on democratic renewal in which, among other measures, his party would propose limiting the terms of Prime Ministers to two legislatures, a maximum of eight years. This initiative was intended to “banish the old politics of always.” It followed the self-imposed term limits of José María Aznar—who chose not to continue after…

In Spain 24th September 2025

An impossible legislature: Government suffers third consecutive defeat while Sánchez’s brother heads for trial on influence peddling charges

Yesterday, with the Prime Minister at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Spanish politics experienced another grotesque day. In the Congress of Deputies, the government saw its initiative to delegate immigration powers to Catalonia fail. This was one of the many concessions the PSOE has been forced to make to try to maintain the support of Junts, a “traditionally right-wing” party that offered its support to Sánchez so…

In Spain 7th July 2025

PSOE Federal Committee: Sánchez Says Captain Does not Abandon Ship in Storm (If Necessary, He Sinks With It)

Permanently blackmailed by his legislative partners—ranging from the far-right Catalan party Junts to the communists of Sumar or the heirs of ETA—the PSOE has been unable to present a budget in two years, and the processing of every law has become an impossible mission. It was known that governing after losing the elections, with impossible alliances, would lead to an impossible labyrinth. The dead end we find ourselves in today….

In Spain 1st July 2025

Sánchez’s Right-Hand Man Goes to Jail

Yesterday, a Supreme Court judge ordered Santos Cerdán, until two weeks ago the PSOE’s organization secretary and Sánchez’s right-hand man, to prison without bail and incommunicado. Cerdán had accompanied Sánchez—along with José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García, also indicted by the judge—in the mid-last decade to retake the PSOE’s general secretariat. Sánchez had been expelled from this position by the federal executive for attempting to negotiate a government with separatists…

In Spain 26th June 2025

NATO Summit: Sánchez Signs One Thing, Says Another, and Drives Everyone Crazy

The allies have finally had the pleasure of getting to know Pedro Sánchez Pérez Castejón, the new world leader of anti-Trumpism. A man capable of signing one thing, saying another, and ending up doing a third… Always, of course, what he believes suits him best. And all of this, according to him, without lying. They’re just “changes of opinion.” So, before arriving at the Hague summit, Sánchez boasted of having…

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