Sánchez follows the steps of a Russian ideologue in his process of social deterioration in Spain

Spain is experiencing an unprecedented deterioration of public services and infrastructure, which has already resulted in three deadly disasters.

Adamuz: Pedro Sánchez applies a technique used by Zapatero to dilute responsibilities
One year after the disaster in Valencia, what has Sánchez done to prevent it from happening again?

Those catastrophes were the floods of October 29, 2024, which caused 237 deaths and affected several regions, but especially the Valencian Community; the national blackout of April 28, 2025, with eight dead and which left almost all of Spain without power for the first time in almost half a century of democracy; and the tragic Adamuz train accident, with 45 dead, which has been the culmination of a railway chaos that many had been warning about.

Let us remember that in October 2025, one year after the floods, the government had still not carried out any prevention work to avoid the disaster being repeated and does not plan to start any until at least 2027, that is, when three years will have passed since that catastrophe, for which the government has a direct responsibility because the powers over the public water domain are its own.

Furthermore, to this day the government still has not explained the causes of the 2025 blackout and continues to fail to rectify its irresponsible energy policies aimed at closing nuclear power plants, which provide stability to the system, while other European countries are betting precisely on this form of energy generation.

Everything indicates that we will see something similar with the Adamuz train accident, in which the government seems more interested in hiding any data that points to its responsibility for this tragedy, in which multiple pieces of evidence indicate that the government's disastrous management is responsible for what happened. Only in this way can we explain the lies of Minister Óscar Puente to deny even data confirmed by official sources such as ADIF and the CIAF.

While Spaniards witness this disaster, which has now become commonplace, yesterday Pedro Sánchez pulled a new stunt out of his hat, it's unclear whether to please his communist allies in Podemos and Sumar or to try to divert attention from the Adamuz political scandal. It involves https://www.eldebate.com/espana/20260126/gobierno-cede-ante-podemos-prepara-regularizacion-medio-millon-inmigrantes_378447.htmla mass regularization of 500,000 undocumented immigrants by royal decree and without going through Congress, where the government currently lacks sufficient parliamentary support to pass any initiative.

This announcement by the Sánchez government is a clear reward for the illegal immigration mafias, who profit from human trafficking, risking thousands of lives and often causing the deaths of those who embark on this perilous journey. This measure will create a colossal pull factor, just as happened with the nine previous regularizations, so far from solving the problem, it will attract more illegal immigrants to Spain hoping to receive the same treatment and be able to stay and live in this country despite having entered illegally.

Some people perceive electoral intentions in this measure. The PSOE is experiencing a collapse in the polls as a result of its disastrous management and corruption scandals. According to The Objective, published yesterday, hours before the government announced this regularization, 660,000 Spaniards who voted for the PSOE in 2023 now support the PP and Vox, splitting their votes almost 50/50 between the two parties. In 2022, the communists of Podemos already requested that Moroccan immigrants be granted the right to vote in the municipal elections. It's worth remembering that we are currently at a time when more and more voters are abandoning left-wing parties due to the issue of illegal immigration, which has generated security problems, especially in poorer neighborhoods.

Nor should we discount the long-term objectives of this measure. With his sectarian and irresponsible policies, Sánchez is leaving behind a poorer Spain, with increasingly unsafe streets, ever-deteriorating public services and infrastructure, and ever-increasing social problems. In a prosperous Spain, the left has far less chance of electoral success, and Sánchez knows it. The Prime Minister of Spain is not the first leftist leader to make this Machiavellian calculation.

More than a century ago, a famous Russian ideologue, the communist dictator Lenin, said that "hunger had numerous positive consequences", because it made people more receptive to Bolshevik charlatans, modern-day snake-oil salesmen who need particularly desperate customers to succeed in politics. That is the perverse recipe that Sánchez is now applying in Spain: leaving a country in decline to the government that wins the next elections, so that the left can capitalize as quickly as possible on the general discontent to regain power, creating for this purpose a scenario of social deterioration that is already very difficult to resolve.

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