{"id":56578,"date":"2024-07-18T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56578"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:05:06","slug":"von-der-leyens-re-election-good-news-for-sanchez-and-bad-news-for-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/18\/von-der-leyens-re-election-good-news-for-sanchez-and-bad-news-for-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen's re-election, good news for S\u00e1nchez and bad news for Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected today for a second term as president of the European Commission.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/01\/feijoo-cannot-get-von-der-leyen-to-make-even-the-slightest-criticism-of-sanchez-at-a-pp-event\/\">Feij\u00f3o cannot get Von der Leyen to make even the slightest criticism of S\u00e1nchez at a PP event<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/07\/the-deception-of-the-grand-coalition-of-brussels-that-only-vox-is-denouncing-in-spain\/\">The deception of the 'Grand Coalition' of Brussels that only Vox is denouncing in Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The center-left alliance between the EPP and the socialists is repeated<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen is a member of the CDU, the German partner of the European People's Party (EPP), and <strong>owes her re-election to the same alliance between the EPP and the socialists that made her president of the Commission in 2019<\/strong>. The speech he gave today (<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/ov\/STATEMENT_24_3871\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can be read here<\/a >) and <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/document\/download\/e6cd4328-673c-4e7a-8683-f63ffb2cf648_en?filename=Political%20Guidelines%202024-2029_EN.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her candidacy guidelines (see PDF)<\/a> seem designed to gain support from the same center-left alliance that elected her five years ago.<\/p>\n<p><big>Von der Leyen's political sectarianism at the head of the Commission<\/big><\/p>\n<p>During this time, <strong>Von der Leyen has applied socialist recipes and progressive ideological dogmas as if she were just another socialist<\/strong>, unleashing persecution for ideological reasons against the conservative governments of Poland and Hungary and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/01\/feijoo-cannot-get-von-der-leyen-to-make-even-the-slightest-criticism-of-sanchez-at-a-pp-event\/\">turning a blind eye to the attacks of the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez on the rule of law in Spain<\/a>. A purely sectarian way of governing the European Union, in which <strong> Von der Leyen has made it clear that she has no intention of questioning her socialist allies whatever they do<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Von der Leyen has not made a single criticism against S\u00e1nchez's abuses<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Taking this into account, <strong>the re-election of the German candidate is good news for Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, as it means the continuation of a policy of looking the other way in the face of serious abuses such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/30\/amnesty-law-in-spain-the-list-of-deputies-who-have-supported-this-colossal-act-of-corruption\/\">la amnesty law that grants criminal privileges to S\u00e1nchez's allies<\/a> in exchange for their support (one of the biggest corruption scandals that Spain has experienced), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/15\/the-articles-of-the-constitution-that-sanchez-violates-to-liquidate-judicial-independence\/\">his attacks on judicial independence<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/05\/pedro-sanchez-imitates-a-measure-of-the-putin-regime-to-limit-press-freedom\/\">his threats to freedom of information<\/a>, all in an attempt to silence those who have put his government in check in the midst of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/05\/seven-uncomfortable-questions-that-sanchez-tries-to-avoid-with-his-attacks-on-the-media\/\">several corruption scandals that affect his party and himself<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>In all these years in which <strong>S\u00e1nchez has been behaving like an autocrat<\/strong>, like an authoritarian politician who accepts no limits to his power other than his desires, <strong>Von der Leyen has not even directed him slightest criticism<\/strong>. Not only has he not criticized him, but he even <a href=\"https:\/\/euroefe.euractiv.es\/section\/politicas\/news\/weber-acusa-a-sanchez-de-dividir-a-europa-mientras-von-der-leyen-elogia-los-avances-de-la-presidencia-espanola\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has praised him to the point of opposing the EPP leader<\/a>, the German Manfred Weber, who in December accused him of \"dividing Europe\" and criticized him for \"being applauded by Hamas terrorists.\"<\/p>\n<p><big>Bad news for Spain: this is how Von der Leyen harms us<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This good news for S\u00e1nchez is, on the contrary, bad news for Spain. <strong>Von der Leyen has been promoting policies that undermine our national sovereignty, destroy our agricultural sector<\/strong>, increase state interventionism to levels typical of a socialist regime, <strong>harm our industry<\/strong> with their environmental radicalism and promote an ideological roadmap that <strong>attacks the fundamental rights of European citizens<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/13\/elon-musk-denounces-an-illegal-attempt-by-von-der-leyen-to-impose-censorship-on-twitter\/\">starting with freedom of expression<\/a>, as Elon Musk revealed ago few days.<\/p>\n<p><big>The \"grand coalition\" is confirmed: populars and socialists are allies<\/big><\/p>\n<p>What is finally confirmed with the re-election of Von der Leyen is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/07\/the-deception-of-the-grand-coalition-of-brussels-that-only-vox-is-denouncing-in-spain\/\">the \"grand coalition\" formed by the EPP and the socialists<\/a>, two groups whose approaches are increasingly difficult to distinguish and that in The case of Spain is being reflected in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/10\/the-step-that-pp-and-psoe-should-take-after-agreeing-on-the-cgpj-and-the-electoral-board\/\">pacts between the Popular Party and the PSOE in different areas<\/a>. <strong>Today, only conservative parties like Vox are a real opposition to socialism in Europe<\/strong>, a socialism to which the European People's Party has decided to provide its support for another five years.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/presidente\/actividades\/paginas\/2019\/310719-sanchez.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\">La Moncloa<\/a>. The president of the European Commission, the German centrist Ursula von der Leyen, in a meeting with the president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez, at the Moncloa palace on July 31, 2019.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected today for a second term as president of the European Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[15256,15884,10454,641,693,12684,2721,11462,15180,7535],"class_list":["post-56578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-european-comission","tag-european-peoples-party-epp","tag-european-union","tag-partido-popular","tag-psoe","tag-party-of-european-socialists","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-spain","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-vox"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:33:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}