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Spanish Politics 11th February 2026

Former Socialist President Felipe González to “cast a blank ballot,” not vote for Pedro Sánchez

In statements that have swept across the country’s news outlets, former President Felipe González—who governed Spain between 1982 and 1996 and was the PSOE Secretary General who forced the party to abandon Marxism—announced yesterday that if Pedro Sánchez is the party’s next candidate, he will cast a blank ballot. Regarding his membership, he remarked: “Me leave? Those who are destroying the party should be the ones to leave.” The anger…

Spanish Politics 9th February 2026

PP wins elections in Aragon with 26 seats (down 2), PSOE collapses to 18 (down 5), and Vox skyrockets to 14 (7 gains)

Jorge Azcón, the President of Aragon for the last two and a half years, called early elections following the refusal of Vox—the far-right party—to support his 2026 budget. “Because we are not like them,” he said yesterday after winning the election with 26 seats (two fewer than he previously held). He was referring to Pedro Sánchez’s administration, which is still governing with the 2023 budget approved in 2022 during the…

In Spain 22nd December 2025

Elections in Extremadura: PP wins more seats than entire left combined

These are the first elections of the new electoral cycle after 2 years without polls in Spain, and the results confirm what the surveys predicted: The PP will continue to govern in Extremadura after achieving 43% of the vote and 29 seats (up from 28). Meanwhile, the PSOE collapses (dropping from 28 seats—equal to the PP’s previous count—to 18), and the fringes on both sides are rising: the right (Vox…

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 13th June 2025

Police Uncover “Criminal Organization” in PSOE… Sánchez Apologizes but Says He’s Staying: “This Isn’t About Me”

Spain was stunned to discover how three of Pedro Sánchez’s four closest friends, who accompanied him in taking power first in the PSOE and then in the government, allegedly rigged elections, collected millions in commissions from public works contracts they awarded from the government, and placed their prostitutes in public sector jobs. A nearly 500-page report compiled by the Civil Guard transcribes eight audio recordings from meetings where they divided…

In Spain 9th June 2025

Thousands Protest Against “Government Mafia” and Demand Elections

One hundred thousand people, according to the Popular Party (PP), which organized the rally, and 50,000 according to the government, the target of the protest, gathered yesterday in Madrid’s Plaza de España to protest against the ongoing institutional degradation and demand immediate elections. As the PP leader stated, “No one voted for him to do this.” “This” refers to the grotesque spectacle that has been dominating the front pages of…

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In Spain 2nd December 2024

PSOE closes congress in Bulgarian style to rally around Sánchez and his government, besieged by corruption

In a 41st Congress with no room for self-criticism, the PSOE has rallied around its leader – and his wife – after ousting hours earlier the territorial leader of the PSOE in Madrid, who was not sufficiently committed to the Sánchez cause. As former president Zapatero recalled on the first day of the Congress, in the PSOE they have ‘loyalty as a rule.’ So, there was applause and more applause,…

In Spain 29th November 2024

Sánchez’s PSOE: another Bulgarian-style congress while judges investigate his wife, brother, former number two, Attorney General…

A total of 29 magistrates—11 of them from the Supreme Court—have so far supported the four criminal proceedings that will be the elephant in the room at the 41st PSOE congress, which starts this Friday in Seville. The four have a common factor: they involve positions and individuals linked to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. Three of them are investigating corruption crimes, as explained by the digital newspaper…

In Spain 10th June 2024

PP wins the European elections with 34% of vote and 22 seats, 30% and 20 seats for PSOE

With a turnout of 49%, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo’s Partido Popular has increased its lead over the PSOE to 4 points (700,000 votes) (when in the general elections a year ago the lead was less than 1.5 points) and has won 22 of the 61 MEPs that Spain sends to the European Parliament. Yesterday, Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE held on, with 30% of the vote and 20 seats, largely at the expense…

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