"This is our best album" is a phrase that hundreds of bands have said after releasing all the albums they have released. And while it is true that greater mastery of their art is increasingly expected, experience tells us that many gradually fade and lose the energy that made them unique in their time. Something similar happens with Pedro Sánchez. It is always his worst week. "The PSOE is dragged along by Zapatero in Sánchez's worst week: 'The membership cries'," headlines El Mundo on the front page, with a tearful anonymous quote. I will not underestimate the problems that plague the socialist leader, but knowing him, I wouldn't write him off so quickly either. In any case, I recall that Abc already said in May that Sánchez was "at his worst moment." And in November, also in El Mundo, they spoke of a "horribilis week for Sánchez and the PSOE." This same adjective had already been used in July 2024 by several regional newspapers of the Promecal group. But we can go back further, to February 2024, to find that El Español resorts to this same Latinism. Or in January 2024, and then it was La Razón that paraded the "horribilis" week. And do you know how Europa Press described the third week of May 2022? Exactly: horribilis.
Doing some digging, we can go back almost to Pedro Sánchez's birth: a very tough week, great efforts to get out, etcetera. But I stopped when I reached November 2019 and saw this clairvoyant headline from El Confidencial a few days before the elections: "Sánchez's black week cools the PSOE and predicts a Congress of impossible pacts." Oh, yes, very black. I fear that this talk of black weeks is, also, like parties of the century, there are two or three each season. Like the Germany-Curacao match that is just starting now. I bet Curacao wins the World Cup. If it happens, I will retire you all.
