Spanish socialism was involved in serious corruption scandals during Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez's term (1982-1996).<\/p>\n
The precedent of socialist corruption during Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez's term<\/big><\/p>\n Those of us who remember that time are very aware that Gonz\u00e1lez only left power after losing the 1996 elections<\/strong> (elections in which the Popular Party won but with a simple majority) and also because of the abandonment of the Catalan separatists<\/strong>, who went from taking advantage of the Socialists to taking advantage of Aznar for four years. The PSOE lost 18 seats in those elections, but the PSOE of 2025 is not the one of 1996:<\/strong> its leaders have changed, even more fanaticized, and so have many of its voters, who have assumed the idea that for the left there are no moral limits of any kind<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The events of recent years reinforce this idea. The PSOE has done extremely serious things that it said it wouldn't do:<\/strong> governing with the communists of Podemos, allying itself with the heirs of ETA and the perpetrators of the 2017 separatist coup, granting pardons to those seditious individuals, and finally granting them an unconstitutional amnesty to erase all their crimes.<\/p>\n The fanaticism of socialism promoted by Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/big><\/p>\n So far, Socialist voters are proving indifferent to all this vileness<\/strong>, exhibiting the same lack of principles as the Socialist leaders they vote for. This has been possible, in large part, because all this vileness has been indecently whitewashed by all of Spain's left-wing media outlets, starting with RTVE<\/strong>, a medium paid for by all taxpayers and used by the PSOE as its own propaganda organ.<\/p>\n This fanatical drift is no coincidence. The PSOE has been encouraging its followers to adapt to Pedro S\u00e1nchez's lack of scruples for years<\/strong>, and S\u00e1nchez was described yesterday by a former socialist leader, Tom\u00e1s G\u00f3mez<\/a> as follows:<\/p>\n \"I've seen S\u00e1nchez take a ballot box and put it behind a screen to try to change the result of a vote.<\/strong> Someone who does that in front of all the PSOE leaders, just look at the sense he has of democracy<\/strong> and of institutions.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n A politician who is a clear case of the 'dark triad'<\/big><\/p>\n With the number of scandals affecting the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), many people will be wondering if Pedro S\u00e1nchez is planning to resign. Obviously, I'm not a fortune teller, and I hope I'm wrong in this prediction, but given his personality, it's not hard to imagine an answer. A year ago I pointed out here that S\u00e1nchez is an example of what is known in psychology as the \"dark triad\"<\/a>, a dangerous cocktail of narcissism<\/strong> (a superiority complex that leads a person to believe themselves superior to others), Machiavellianism<\/strong> (a lack of morals and the belief that the end justifies any means), and psychopathy<\/strong> (antisocial, selfish, and insensitive behavior towards others).<\/p>\n Yesterday, Tom\u00e1s G\u00f3mez said that S\u00e1nchez only cares about \"occupying power at all costs\"<\/a>. The socialist leader has proven himself to be an autocrat, someone who knows no limits other than his own desires<\/strong>. That is why he has had no qualms about lying, betraying his commitments and flouting the Constitution to achieve his true purpose in politics: to remain in power at any price<\/strong>, a price that he is making all Spaniards pay.<\/p>\n There was another famous case of 'dark triad': Nero<\/big><\/p>\n Reading history books, there is a famous Roman emperor who shared S\u00e1nchez's dark triad: Nero<\/strong>. He was a narcissistic, insensitive, unscrupulous emperor, capable of setting fire to Rome and then blaming the Christians and ordering mass executions against them. It must be remembered that Nero only left power when he was stripped of it by the Senate, which handed it over to Galba<\/strong>, in a rebellion in which the former emperor was declared a public enemy of Rome and betrayed by his Praetorian Guard and his most loyal servants<\/strong>, finally ending up committing suicide.<\/p>\n We must remember that Nero left Rome plunged into civil war, and S\u00e1nchez is leaving Spain in ruin<\/strong>, not only economically, but also with an even more serious ruin: an unprecedented deterioration of democratic institutions.<\/strong> It will not be easy to get out of this situation, and the PSOE will certainly not make it easy for us to find a way out. The only possibility for S\u00e1nchez to resign is if he sees himself, like Nero, betrayed by his closest collaborators.<\/strong><\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez needs his allies as much as they need him.<\/big><\/p>\n Another thing that has become clear is that his political allies are unlikely to abandon him<\/strong>, no matter how serious the scandals affecting the PSOE are and which could end up dragging them down electorally, because communists and separatists have found in S\u00e1nchez a unique opportunity to promote a change of State through the back door<\/strong>, violating the Constitution, a process that the PSOE has already begun with its assault on the Judiciary and its attacks on the Rule of Law<\/strong>, denounced a few days ago by the European Parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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