Without any embarrassment and with total conviction, this Friday Pedro Sanchez He has left one of those phrases that will accompany him for the rest of his political career. It was during the press conference after the European Councilheld in Brussels, and in response to a question about the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso. Although there has not been a president in Spain's recent democratic history with a more extreme drive for humbug, Sánchez has stated that “there are people who lie and people who try to make the truth our way of doing politics.”.
The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, without blinking, has accused the popular leader of lying. But not satisfied with that accusation, he has gone one step further and has launched that phrase in which he boasts of “making the truth” his maxim in politics. This statement, which Pedro Sánchez has intoned without hesitation, has been said by the same politician who has built his political career by accumulating contradictions one after another.
Stalked by corruption Koldo caseSánchez has once again played the victim, since he has also charged against the media “whose silence is clamorous in the attempt to intimidate other media”, “this cannot lead us to equidistance between the truth and lies or to a tie between those who attack and those who are attacked.
President Sánchez took advantage of his intervention to accuse the PP of “bullying and pointing fingers at the media.” The president and leader of the socialists has not managed to be truthful in this either, since this practice is exactly what his PSOE communications director has applied on repeated occasions, Ion Antolinvetoing critical media such as OKDIARIO and attacking those journalists who are not liked by Sanchismo.
This same practice is also carried out very often by the Secretariat of State for Communication in La Moncloa, which should exercise its functions neutrally. This newspaper has not been given the floor for more than two years at the press conferences that follow the Council of Ministers. Moncloa also does not allow OKDIAIRO to travel on the official plane, as the rest of the accredited media do during Pedro Sánchez's official trips.
Lies without rest
Sánchez's statement in Brussels, that «make the truth our way of doing politics”, It can be considered the lie of Sánchez's lies. Because it is a corollary to the continuous unfulfilled promises with which the socialist has been in power since June 2018.
He came to power with a motion of censure against Rajoy that he justified with the need to end political corruption. He now clings to the Government cornered precisely by the corruption.
When he presented the motion of censure against Rajoy, said he would call elections quickly, but then resisted. He did not give citizens the opportunity to vote until November 2019. Meanwhile, after having reneged on the accounts of Rajoy's Executive, he then governed for two and a half years with the General State Budgets that he had inherited from the PP. In 2019 and 2020, he governed Spain with extended budgets.
In the 2020 general elections he once again put his strategy of lying for power into practice. Thus, he insisted ad nauseum that he would never govern with Podemos. “I wouldn't sleep peacefully”, he came to say. The elections were in November 2019; In January he launched a coalition government with Podemos, with the communist Pablo Iglesias as vice president.
Add and continue. He stated that there was no room for a pardon for the independentists convicted of the secessionist revolt in Catalonia in the fall of 2017, known as 1-O. However, in June 2021 he granted pardons to the leaders of that coup who were in prison.
Of Puigdemont He said that he had no choice but to stop being a fugitive and be accountable to Spanish Justice. “Puigdemont will have to account for the crimes committed,” he said in November 2022. Just a year later he sealed an agreement with him that made him his leading partner and promised that he would be completely shielded from Justice, free. from all criminal responsibility, immune by virtue of the amnesty.
Since the current legislature began last November, in practice Sánchez shares the reins of the Government of Spain with Puigdemont. The socialist leader owes to ex president the votes that allow him to continue installed in Moncloa. That pact has come with another consummate lie: Sánchez insisted that the amnesty was unviable for those prosecuted or convicted of process independence. He vehemently asserted that it was impossible, for unconstitutional. As soon as he needed Puigdemont's people (Junts) to stay in power, the amnesty was no longer unconstitutional for Sánchez and he processed it hastily, which even earned him a reprimand from the General Council of the Judiciary.