{"id":62363,"date":"2025-12-12T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=62363"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:27:07","slug":"the-sanchez-government-attempts-to-clean-up-its-image-with-a-retouched-photo-from-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/12\/the-sanchez-government-attempts-to-clean-up-its-image-with-a-retouched-photo-from-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The S\u00e1nchez government attempts to clean up its image with a retouched photo from 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The response of the socialist government and the PSOE to its corruption scandals has gone from the realm of the demented<\/a> to the comical.<\/p>\n

The sinking of socialism in Spain: Will S\u00e1nchez go from La Moncloa to Soto del Real?<\/a><\/rel>
\nPedro S\u00e1nchez's insane behaviour as scandals mount in his party<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

This Friday, as political corruption scandals and sexual harassment cases close in on the government and the Socialist Party, Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a> and several of his ministers<\/strong> (F\u00e9lix Bola\u00f1os<\/a>, \u00d3scar L\u00f3pez<\/a>, \u00d3scar Puente<\/a> and Pilar Alegr\u00eda<\/a>) have shared the cover of an Italian leftist magazine<\/strong> that named the Spanish Prime Minister \"Person of the Year.\" The cover is certainly amusing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Social media has been flooded with humorous comments about this cover, whose photo is clearly retouched<\/strong> and isn't even recent. Due to the visible physical decline of the Spanish Socialist leader amidst a wave of corruption scandals, L'Espresso has resorted to Photoshop and removed some of S\u00e1nchez's gray hair.<\/strong> The original photo was published on the La Moncloa website on March 8, 2023<\/a>. Here you can see an enlargement of the original photo in which S\u00e1nchez's gray hair is clearly visible:<\/p>\n

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As expected, memes ridiculing the cover and making puns about the Italian magazine's name quickly appeared.<\/strong> Here we can see an image shared by @Pablo2k3<\/a>, using artificial intelligence:<\/p>\n

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And here's another image posted by @maria33894<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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L'Espresso has justified this cover with an editorial<\/a> in which it omits any reference to the corruption scandals of S\u00e1nchez's government and the negative data of his administration<\/strong>, stating that he is \"a model for Europe\" and \"a benchmark in a Europe mired in fear and uncertainty.\" Reading these accolades, one has to wonder: how much has this propaganda operation cost us Spaniards?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Significantly, that laudatory editorial in L'Espresso about S\u00e1nchez is signed by Emilio Carelli<\/strong>, who between 2018 and 2021 was a member of parliament for the left-wing Five Star Movement<\/a>, which since 2024 has been part of the European United Left parliamentary group, which brings together the communist parties of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, yesterday the Spanish National Police arrested two executives of a Spanish airline linked to the Venezuelan regime<\/a> and which is being investigated for a multi-million euro government bailout<\/strong>, a bailout that has long dominated news reports about alleged corruption cases within Pedro S\u00e1nchez's socialist government. In this context, the magazine cover and the government's campaign to promote it demonstrate a clear ineptitude and great desperation<\/strong> at a time when S\u00e1nchez is seriously under scrutiny, both in Spain and in Europe. The Spanish socialist government has made it clear that it has lost all sense of the ridiculous.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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