It seemed impossible, but it is true

El presidente del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez - PHOTO/AFP/JAVIER SORIANO
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez - PHOTO/AFP/JAVIER SORIANO
Having reached the current political point and moment, I ask myself once again how many times have we thought and concluded that Sánchez's outrages, outbursts and excesses had reached their limit? Some time ago, many of us, moved by good faith, thought that he had reached his peak and that he would not dare to go any further. 

But no, it is never enough to satiate the lust for power of a man who is weak by nature, who must overcome himself and who is also egocentric, narcissistic, totally dependent on others and without any scruples whatsoever to use everything and everyone necessary to save his continuity in the Moncloa in order to continue exercising omnipotent power in Spain, although without actually governing. 

In recent times, his own mind and the huge cohort of brainy, ill-conceived advisors and wicked perversity-whisperers who surround and misconceive him, insist on advising him or putting on the table new, lurid and outlandish actions or measures bordering on illegality, through the production of hoaxes, lies, slogans, directories, scripts, scripts, directories and collective messages to cover up the problems that surround him and really squeeze his neck. 

Their private life and closest life is beginning to show that some of their backsides are not clean and pure in their entirety; even though he covers their backs with phrases such as the mud machine or tricks such as inducing the referral of the case against his wife to the European public prosecutor's office where, if necessary and for some time now, he has already had a prosecutor of his own liking as a representative of Spain and, therefore, the obligatory rapporteur of the cases that come from here; but it seems that, in this, he has got a hard nut to crack and not the whole case will be transferred to another place. 

On the other hand, the eminent musician, his brother, who nobody sees working, or paying taxes, or even living in a real residence in Spain, but in Portugal, who also receives his large salaries and benefits from the Spanish national treasury, also seems to have problems explaining his high financial wealth (some 1.8 million euros) when there are no known big jobs, important concerts, contracts or inheritances that could have fattened him financially. 

His close political entourage is not really clean either, but very dirty and involved in the swamp of evil; the Koldo case, among many others, means that his grooms and trusted men could, in all likelihood, be splashed with certain corrupt acts. Corruption or outright theft, which, added together, can amount to significant sums that are very difficult, at first sight, to imagine, let alone justify. 

But all this, while still important and truly worrying, is nothing compared to two issues that have much more political, economic and personal significance, such as the enormous rot amassed around the lurid sale of masks in the early days of the pandemic. These were times in which large sums of money went into the hands and pockets of socialists, people or entities who, in addition to enriching themselves miserably, endangered the lives of thousands or millions of Spaniards at a time when we were dying in spurts on every street corner and without knowing what prophylaxis we should adopt, since, without officially knowing, the masks supplied by the authorities did not do their job, were very expensive and tremendously harmful in their entirety. 

The other big problem that is very difficult to hide is the ignominious favouring of a fugitive from the law and his musketeers in order to obtain seven poisoned supports (votes) to keep him in his seat of power, which is reflected in two official documents or facts that can never be erased; Organic Law 1/2024, of 10 June, "on amnesty for institutional, political and social normalisation in Catalonia" and the recent decision he has been forced to take after a "horribilis" month of the PSOE in Congress, having refused even to present the budgets for this first year in office and losing up to six consecutive votes. And all this after the subsequent ceding to Puigdemont of an unusual "Catalonia clause" to guarantee all the votes to come. 

With regard to the Law, it is enough to carefully read its shameful and irreverent name or title to realise that it is a mockery and deceit for fools, with little or no democracy directed in clear favour and to the benefit of some criminals who not only broke the Law in force at the time, but who now, with this piece of junk legislation, manage to have all their criminal past erased, their criminal past is simply erased and they are asked for forgiveness for having been accused and tried as "men of peace", as a culmination and example of the fact that the text of the law has been drawn up at their own dictation, without the slightest blush or definitive or temporary shame on the part of any of those involved in this hurdle.  

The other specific measure for Catalonia will in fact entail a series of large-scale write-offs of money, by the way, wasted by the leaders themselves, once coup leaders and today people of peace, and which, to make matters worse, all Spaniards will have to pay out of their own pockets; as well as a series of privileges, advantages and unilateral subsidies, if Sánchez wants to fulfil his promise to make Salvador Illa the president of the Generalitat. Disproportionate investments and expenses - which have already been christened with the brand new name of "singular financing" -, yet to come and to be specified, which will undoubtedly mean a huge imbalance and a greater separation in the rights of all the regions and their inhabitants, against which, ignominiously, it is imposed on us not to have a say. 

In addition to these measures focused on Catalonia, it must be added that, once the long electoral period of three recent elections has passed, Sánchez has taken off his mask for good, because there is no longer anyone to fool. Now his main directions of attack are directed fully and mercilessly at the opposition, headed by the main party in it, which is no longer following him closely, but has clearly surpassed him in several of the main recent elections; ending the freedom of the press and expression for all those media that do not pay obeisance and loyalty to him and an attack and assault without regard or restrictions on the judiciary from the humblest court to the highest institutions of the judiciary. 

To save face and carry out this task, as for all previous despicable and undemocratic actions of abuse of power, recent or otherwise, he will make use of the men of clay and straw already placed in key positions such as the Constitutional Court, the Attorney General's Office, the State Attorney General's Office, the Council of State, the CIS and many others, the CIS and many others, who, for various and not at all justifiable reasons, like puppets of the bam, bam, boom, lend their faces, personalities and professional prestige to save their beloved leader, regardless of the spittle they receive or the personal or collective attacks to which they will be subjected throughout their dark and dirty journey.   

In case we hadn't heard about his personal and coup plotting and his autocratic actions inside and outside Spain, where he is listened to and received less and less, and after breaking off relations with Argentina and Israel, he ends this week at home -while the rest of the world is meeting around the G7- receiving Erdogan with great fanfare, Turkey's more than questionable president, famous for his religious, political, educational or moral coups d'état and bloody self-coups as a way to present his disciple's achievements to "the master" or to receive advice and guidelines from him to perfect his current masterpiece.    

Lastly, and now away from home, Sánchez has participated in the Conference on Peace in Ukraine, organised this weekend in Switzerland at the proposal and with a ten-point plan drawn up in 2022 by Zelenski himself. To add a note of importance, Sánchez made his stage appearance escorted by the octogenarian EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs (Borrell), who is in the last throes of his term in office with little or no objectives accomplished during his tenure. The conference is unlikely to produce significant results as neither Russia nor China have been part of it, and can therefore be seen as a token effort by Kiev to win over the international community and more money to fuel the war.  

As I have mentioned on many occasions, Spain, under Sánchez, is moving, by leaps and bounds, towards a pure Bolivarian-style autocracy and, very soon, only these "brother countries", the anti-system and terrorist groups like Hamas will shake hands with us with applause and expect from our actions and measures - carried out out out of pure hypocrisy and the needs of the script in order to maintain the governmental type - some fulcrum on which they can cling to or support and justify, with this, that at least there is someone in the international arena who understands and supports them as if they were on an equal footing.