Plebiscite and disinformation

Pedro Sánchez appeared as a laboratory politician built in the workshops of Ferraz and propelled to the political front line to make a pact with Citizens. This initial plan failed several times until Sánchez found himself presiding over a government "with Podemos ministers," a situation he had said he did not want because "it would not let him sleep." In the same way, he has gone from being against the amnesty for Catalan independence supporters to being its main champion, etc. The newspaper archives of the contradictions of what Sánchez had said are abundant.

Precisely these contradictions, however, have gradually given substance and interest to his figure, and have led him to confront a significant part of the Spanish power system, including the Felipista PSOE. Some of the measures he has promoted in these eight years, such as legislating on democratic memory (that is, on the reparation of the victims of Spanish fascism), were in fact pending subjects from the times of Felipe González, who did not know how, or could not, or dared not approve them at the time. In any case, Pedro Sánchez has become an unusual figure in Spanish democracy for several reasons: among others, for having dared to govern with the support of all those who are not heirs to those who won the War. Junts has definitively withdrawn from this support, which has triggered the calling of elections without it being easy to understand what they might have gained from it. They will not be able to avoid, much as they may regret it, being aligned with the PP and Vox, two parties in which there is an abundance of leaders (not to mention militants) in favor of the outlawing of Junts.

As we were saying, Pedro Sánchez has been forging over the last eight years this figure that the majority of left-wing voters, until now, have perceived not as a providential leader, but as the only viable ally. In their obsession to topple him, the aforementioned heirs of the winners of the War have made evident to everyone the existence of lawfare and the destruction of the separation of powers, and it has become clear that a substantive part of the judiciary works at the service of the political interests of the right and the far-right. Sánchez has also earned an indisputably positive assessment among progressives around the world, for the frankly dignified positions he has taken in the face of situations such as the genocide in Gaza or the war in Iran, while the PP was unable to oppose anything other than following the lead of the orange Trumpist pachyderm. Now, Sánchez has proposed elections that are a plebiscite on this figure that he has built and that has been built for him, and he is sincere when he says that for him it is not over and that he sees himself governing until 2030 "and beyond". The legislature that ended this Monday has also been that of disinformation at the service of hate speech, promoted once again by the right and the far-right. In the fifty-four days until the elections, we will hear them and see them roar with more fury than ever.