Sánchez breaks his record for silence on Twitter in 8 years: Ceuta leaves him knocked out

The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, is in the final stretch of his term, and this path is going to be very difficult for him.

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For a few years now, his unpopularity has been increasing at the same rate as his terrible management and the corruption scandals that affect his personal environment, his government and his party. However, until now the Spanish socialist leader had insisted on applying his political survival strategy, trying to control the story of the events even in such critical moments as the Valencia floods in 2024, the national blackout of April 28, 2025 and the terrible Adamuz train accident on January 18, 2026, with 46 deaths.

The PSOE intends to boycott the rallies in support of Ceuta

The migrant influx into Ceuta and the Sánchez government's subservience to Morocco have created a very different political landscape. Criticism is no longer limited to the right wing of the political spectrum, but is also coming from the left. Discontent within the socialist ranks themselves is growing, coinciding with the shameful gestures of various ministers toward Rabat, acting as if they were members of the Moroccan embassy staff in Madrid rather than representatives of the Spanish government. Just yesterday, the PSOE leadership openly called on its general secretaries to boycott the rallies in support of Ceuta planned for September 2nd, in yet another gesture of alignment with Morocco. This attempt at a boycott is so clumsy and absurd that href="https://elfarodeceuta.es/psoe-llama-no-participar-concentracion-ceuta-2-septiembre/" target="_blank">Some members of the PSOE in Ceuta have already announced that they will disobey that order.

12 days without posting on Twitter and 30 days without mentioning Ceuta

The situation has become so uncomfortable for the Prime Minister that Sánchez has now gone 12 days without posting anything on his Twitter account, @sanchezcastejon. An inexplicable and unjustifiable silence amidst a critical situation in that Spanish city. Sánchez's last tweet was published on August 16 to commemorate the assassination of the poet Federico García Lorca during the Spanish Civil War. The most unusual thing is that Sánchez hasn't published a single message about Ceuta since July 31, the same day he visited that Spanish city. Let's remember that despite the seriousness of the situation, the very next day he began his longest vacation, provoking outrage among millions of Spaniards and astonishment among the foreign press.

Grok's analysis: Sánchez breaks his record for silence on Twitter in 8 years

In light of this, I asked Grok, Twitter's artificial intelligence, if Sánchez had ever remained silent on that social network. Here you can read Grok's response. In it, it tells me the following:

"No, according to the available data on his activity on X (formerly Twitter) and searches for media coverage, it does not appear that @sanchezcastejon has had a period of 12 consecutive days without posting anything in the last 8 years (approximately since August 2018)."

Grok also points out that Sánchez's most prominent and documented period of silence occurred in April 2024, when he published his “Letter to the Citizens” on the 24th of that month, announcing a period of reflection following the corruption scandal involving his wife. Grok comments: "There were 5 days of complete inactivity on the account. Media outlets and analysts expressly noted it as a hiatus."

Sánchez hasn't gone this long without posting even during previous holiday periods: "In summers (August of years like 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) and holiday periods or periods of relatively low activity (Christmas/beginning of the year), the post samples show frequent activity (almost daily or with gaps of 1-5 days at most)." Grok adds: "Pedro Sánchez has maintained a fairly constant presence on the account since becoming president (and before), with posts almost daily or every few days about politics, emergencies, tributes, etc. Short gaps (2-5 days) do occur, especially during holidays or specific times, but 12 consecutive days without any posts seems exceptional in the last 8 years according to the available evidence."

A politically knocked-out prime minister

This prolonged silence is explained by an increasingly clear cause: the migratory invasion of Ceuta and the anger of the city's residents at the government's abandonment, in addition to the indignation in the rest of Spain at the PSOE's subservience to Morocco, have left Sánchez politically knocked out, at a time when, moreover, his government is in a situation of maximum weakness, without parliamentary support to approve its budgets and with its separatist and far-left partners abandoning the government to distance themselves from it in the face of the next general elections.

Of course, this does not mean that the socialist leader should be pitied: Sánchez is reaping what he himself sowed with his sectarianism and his determination to put his personal interests above the interests of Spain.

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