{"id":65202,"date":"2026-05-27T17:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=65202"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:15:24","slug":"pedro-sanchez-denies-his-downfall-and-jokes-about-it-there-has-already-been-another-sinking-like-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/05\/27\/pedro-sanchez-denies-his-downfall-and-jokes-about-it-there-has-already-been-another-sinking-like-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez denies his downfall and jokes about it: there has already been another sinking like this one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) is experiencing one of its darkest days due to corruption.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/05\/26\/the-role-of-pedro-sanchezs-partners-in-corruption-and-the-troubles-that-await-us\/\">The role of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's partners in corruption and the troubles that await us<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/05\/20\/zapateros-indictment-sheds-light-on-sanchezs-murky-relationship-with-china\/\">Zapatero's indictment sheds light on S\u00e1nchez's murky relationship with China<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On the orders of Judge Santiago Pedraz, the investigating judge at the National Court in the case of the Socialist Party's \"dirty tricks\" against the judiciary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20260527\/uco-registra-ferraz-investigacion-posible-financiacion-ilegal-psoe_421990.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Civil Guard has searched the national headquarters of the PSOE, the Pablo Iglesias Foundation, and other Socialist Party offices<\/a>. The scandal caused by this operation has made headlines both within and outside of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>While this was happening, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ScmSw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Speaker of the Congress, the Socialist Francina Armengol, ordered the evacuation of the Congress of Deputies<\/a> just 15 minutes before the start of the government question time. <strong>In the midst of a political firestorm at the PSOE headquarters, the Socialists staged a fire at one of the seats of national sovereignty.<\/strong> An event that leaves one unsure whether to interpret as a distraction, a cruel joke, or a veiled threat about the consequences of upsetting the political establishment in Spain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Rome, where he has traveled to try to use Pope Leo XIV as a distraction<\/strong> - the Spanish Prime Minister is already exhausting his last resources to create smokescreens - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20260527\/inverosimil-explicacion-sanchez-sobre-no-convoca-elecciones_422142.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez lied and joked cynically about his own downfall to refuse once again to call elections<\/a>: <em>\"There are some colleagues who are asking me to bring forward the elections because they are aware that <strong>I will have a larger parliamentary majority in Congress to be able to govern much more calmly<\/strong>, and I appreciate that, but I cannot call elections for partisan interests\"<\/em>. <strong>A false statement from a pathological liar whose party has been suffering electoral defeats for months<\/strong> in several autonomous communities.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the world has witnessed such an attitude. In 2001, <strong>Traudl Junge, one of Adolf Hitler's last personal secretaries, described something similar in her memoirs<\/strong>, titled \"Bis zur letzten Stunde\" (Until the Last Moment). At 81 years old, and drawing on notes written shortly after the end of World War II, Junge recalled how, <strong>during his downfall, Hitler attempted to mobilize divisions that no longer existed, and his entourage joked about the situation<\/strong>, stating that being in Berlin was the most appropriate course of action, since at that point, traveling from the Western Front to the Eastern Front simply required taking a commuter train.<\/p>\n<p>Junge also recalls how <strong>Hitler had no qualms about sacrificing children from the Hitler Youth in a futile defense of Berlin<\/strong> against enemy armies that completely overwhelmed the battered German lines. <strong>This blindness of Hitler's ultimately led to the almost complete destruction of the city.<\/strong> This is what happens with leaders who refuse to listen to any opinion that doesn't align with their desires and who believe the world would end without them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hoy S\u00e1nchez est\u00e1 sacrificando a su propio partido para seguir unos meses m\u00e1s en el poder.<\/strong> Tal vez sea \u00e9se el \u00fanico favor que el resto de los espa\u00f1oles le podamos agradecer, pues <strong>cuanto m\u00e1s tiempo pase, mayor es el da\u00f1o que sufrir\u00e1 el PSOE<\/strong> y, sinceramente, se merece sufrirlo por haber respaldado a ese aprendiz de aut\u00f3crata en todas sus vilezas desde hace ocho a\u00f1os. Lo que nos queda por ver ahora es, adem\u00e1s, <strong>cu\u00e1nto da\u00f1o est\u00e1 dispuesto S\u00e1nchez a hacer a Espa\u00f1a por aferrarse al poder a cualquier precio<\/strong>. Alg\u00fan d\u00eda deber\u00e1 ser juzgado por ello, y no s\u00f3lo desde una perspectiva hist\u00f3rica.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, S\u00e1nchez is sacrificing his own party to remain in power for a few more months.<\/strong> Perhaps that is the only favor the rest of the Spanish people can thank him for, because <strong>the longer this goes on, the greater the damage the PSOE will suffer<\/strong>, and frankly, it deserves it for having supported this would-be autocrat in all his vile acts for the past eight years. What remains to be seen is <strong>how much damage S\u00e1nchez is willing to do to Spain to cling to power at any cost<\/strong>. One day he will have to be judged for it, and not only from a historical perspective.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/multimedia\/galeriasfotograficas\/presidente\/Paginas\/2026\/270526-sanchez-viaje-vaticano.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Moncloa<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Wednesday, the Spanish Socialist Workers&#8217; Party (PSOE) is experiencing one of its darkest days due to corruption.<\/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":[10398],"tags":[11282,9860,693,2721,10641,10796,27152],"class_list":["post-65202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-congress-of-deputies-of-spain","tag-francina-armengol","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-political-corruption","tag-socialism","tag-traudl-junge"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 22:20:16","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\/65202","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=65202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}