Pedro Sanchez take advantage of the summit G20 which is celebrated these days at Brazil and attended by several European leaders to negotiate and unblock the new college of European commissioners, including the current Minister of Energy Transition, Therese Riberaas community vice president.
The President of the Spanish Government seeks to take advantage of his contacts during the meeting of the Rio de Janeiro and is open to the vote of the Socialist Party in favor of the candidates of the Italian Giorgia Meloni, Raffaele Fittoand the Hungarian Viktor Orbán, Oliver Varhelyi.
If the cross vetoes affecting Ribera, Fitto and Várhelyi were overcome, Sánchez would adhere to the European far right, an ideology he has abhorred during this term, as shown by the nine key speeches delivered this time around. that is, since he was elected. inaugurated in November 2023 after the elections of 23-J.
1. November 2023
During his inauguration speech, Pedro Sánchez presented his new government as the “only effective wall” against “extreme right policies”. —word he used up to 22 times— representing Vox and PP, a party that has already joined “the reactionary club of Trump, Le Pen, Orbán and Abascal”, a group that “questions democracy and human rights”.
According to Sánchez, “reactionary ideas end up parasitizing traditional right-wing parties”, such as the European People’s Party, which “has given in to the far right” or the American Republicans, “colonized by Trumpism”.
2. December 2023
About to end Spain’s six-month presidency of the Council of the EU, Sánchez took stock in Strasbourg, where he had a very bitter fight with Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s Party. Sánchez reminded him that the PP’s partner in Spain is Vox, and that for that he just needs to ally himself with “those who defend the return to the streets of Berlin of the names of the leaders of the Third Reich in Germany”.
After saying goodbye to the European Parliament, Sánchez smiling satisfied and turning his back, Weber asked to speak, for the sake of an allusion. “After almost “five minutes during which the Spanish president attacked me”he said: “I remind you, Mr. Sánchez, that in my country Social Democrats and Christian Democrats sit down to reach agreementsand that you rejected this and preferred the extremists”, in reference to your pacts with Sumar and the rest of the investiture partners (ERC, Bildu, Junts, Podemos, etc.)
3. January 2024
A month later, in the Swiss town of Davoswhere the forum that brings together the main economic and political actors of the world is held, Sánchez warned that “the extreme right is on the rise” and that ““Autocratic regimes are proliferating in the West and other parts of the world.”
The Spanish president also warned that “fake news and polarization policy“reduce” the number of democracies.
4. April 2024
After learning of the corruption allegations against his partner Begoña GomezSánchez took five days to reflect on his continuity in power. On April 29, it appeared Moncloa Palace to announce that he had “decided to continue”.
During his speech, without accepting questions from the press, the head of the Executive appealed to the “collective conscience of Spanish society” so that it becomes “an example, a source of inspiration for a world troubled and hurt, because the evils that afflict us are not exclusive to Spain, they are part of a movement reactionary world which aspires to impose its regressive program through defamation and the lie“.
5. June 2024
Sánchez gave the starting signal to the campaign European elections from 9-J to Valencia. Next to Therese Riberawho never managed to recover his deputy certificate after the elections while waiting to take a position as commissioner, Sánchez sold the PSOE as the only antidote to stop the “summit”. international far-right“, composed of Giorgia Milei, Marine Le Pen, Santiago Abascal either Alberto Nuñez Feijóo.
July 6, 2024
“Ladies and gentlemen, during these elections to the European Parliament, the far right increased by 40%. I repeat the number again, 40%. It is the most voted force in countries like France And Italyas Hungary and how Belgiumand sent almost 200 representatives to Brussels,” Sánchez told Congress on July 17, the day he presented the appeal Action plan for democracy to combat “hoaxes and fake news”.
“The policy of hatred and lies continues to progress on our continent. But I think that is the most important thing: we reached an agreement, socialists, conservatives and liberals, which served to leave the ultras out community institutions and to send a clear message to the world”, he continued, unaware that in the new college of European commissioners, there will be a place for candidates from the Meloni And Orbaneven with the votes of the socialists.
September 7, 2024
During the speech before the Federal Committee of the PSOE, Sánchez welcomed Therese Ribera because she would be a “great commissioner in Europe with a social democratic projection”.
He also affirmed that his party had “an extraordinary responsibility” because it was one of the “main references of European and global social democracy” in the face of “international far-right“.
8. September 2024
He did not say the word “ultra-right”, but during his speech in New York before the United Nations General Assembly Two months ago, Sánchez warned against policies that “question” and “overthrow” “rights that were thought to be consolidated.”
In this sense, he warned against a “reactionary program globalwhich “breaks the fire of distrust of institutions, polarization and the claim of an invented past, as false as its proclamations”.
9. October 2024
After a summer with a record number of irregular immigration (a 49% increase, according to Interior data), Sánchez appeared in Congress on October 9 to report on the government’s immigration policy. In his speech, he asked to “refute the stereotypes and hoaxes propagated by the right and the extreme right.”
PP, Vox and their European counterparts “offer only one thing to our southern neighbors: threats, direct blowback and hate speech. And we offer them development and stability,” added Sánchez.
