Victimhood to cover up corruption and socialist double standards with insults

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) is experiencing a particularly critical period due to its political corruption scandals.

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Right now, people close to Pedro Sánchez's family and political circle are being investigated for influence peddling, bribery, misappropriation of funds, embezzlement, and organized crime. As if all this weren't enough, a prostitution scandal has now erupted, which media outlets aligned with the Socialists and RTVE, controlled by Pedro Sánchez's government, are working hard to hide. Yesterday, the PSOE resorted to one of its favorite methods for covering up uncomfortable issues: playing the victim.

The PSOE resorts to victimhood to cover up its scandals

In a message posted on her Twitter account, Minister Pilar Alegría said that she has been suffering a wave of insults for 48 hours, for having stayed at the same national parador as a former minister who several media outlets link to this prostitution scandal, a scandal that is going to be addressed by Congress and that occurred in the middle of the pandemic, while the government was imposing all kinds of restrictions on Spaniards.

Yesterday, Sánchez showed his support for Alegría, stating that what she is suffering "is an example of the hatred that spreads under the cover of anonymity on social media. Many women in this country and around the world also suffer it every day". These words are surprising and outrageous considering that we have been learning for weeks the details about the hiring of the "girlfriend" of a minister in a public company, without even giving him a job interview.

They use millions of Spanish women as a shield

Sánchez has forgotten to mention that millions of Spanish women do not enjoy these privileges because they are not in a romantic relationship with a Socialist minister. Millions of Spanish women have built their professional careers through effort and merit. Using Spanish women as a shield to cover up this scandal is yet another act of shamelessness by a government that began its journey promising to end corruption, and is now busy trying to silence its scandals by attacking the media and the judges investigating them.

The government does think it's okay to humiliate Catholics.

What the Sánchez government did yesterday with this act of victimhood also demonstrates its double standards when it comes to insults. Let us remember that on December 31, Government-controlled TVE deliberately offended Christians on its New Year's Eve program, and instead of apologizing for it, the government supported that offense and even announced legal changes to normalize acts of humiliation against Catholics, a common practice of the Spanish left. Apparently, for the Sánchez government, if women are Catholic, they do not deserve the same respect that it invokes for Minister Alegría.

Sánchez's silence in the face of harassment and attacks on political rivals

We can say the same about the treatment of journalists and political rivals. Last year, the Socialist minister Óscar Puente called a journalist a "sack of shit." We didn't read any message from Sánchez at the time condemning this grave insult. The government has also said nothing about the repeated attacks on members of Vox, the third most voted party in Spain. Sánchez and his ministers didn't even say anything when a Vox deputy, Rocío de Meer, was attacked with a stone. An attack on which Arnaldo Otegui, a government ally, justified the attack by saying that Vox was there to "provoke", using the famous miniskirt argument. No member of the government reproached Otegui for this, nor did they reproach him for continuing to fail to condemn the 853 murders perpetrated by the terrorist group ETA, including the murder of 22 children.

Since we're talking about social media, it's worth remembering that in January 2020, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of the Popular Party, denounced an avalanche of insults and death threats on Twitter, for stating in an interview that she doubted that pollution was causing deaths in Madrid. The left has been launching a hate campaign against her that surpasses all limits, but Sánchez has never condemned it, because in fact his government is one of the main promoters of that campaign. That this same government now presents itself as a victim is the height of shamelessness.

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Photo: PSOE. Pedro Sánchez with Minister Pilar Alegría at a PSOE rally in Zaragoza on March 16, 2025.