Sánchez denies he is ill: who has questioned his health status?

Barcelona"The far-right and the ultra-right have announced the end of this government since day one. Now, moreover, by spreading hoaxes about my health." This is how Pedro Sánchez expressed himself this Thursday in a message on the social network X, with which he denied being ill. The Spanish president reacted after the far-right media outlet Libertad Digital, owned by Federico Jiménez Losantos, published alleged information this week claiming he suffers from a "cardiovascular condition". A theory that PP deputy Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo amplified this Wednesday in Congress.

The aforementioned articles from the ultra digital outlet suggest that the head of the Spanish executive has been secretly treated for months at the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. They also indicate that his health status could lead to thrombosis or a heart attack and that, for this reason, he is undergoing constant medical monitoring and tests. In the latest article, published this very Thursday, it is even stated that Moncloa will "considerably" increase the budget allocated to monitoring the Spanish president's health, whose "physical deterioration" and "thinness" the same media outlet has been pointing out for some time.

"I do not suffer from any cardiovascular disease, but if I did, there would be no problem. Millions of people suffer from them and lead a normal life thanks to the public services that you are dismantling," stated the socialist leader in a message clearly aimed at the right-wing parties. "The mud-slinging machine always works the same way: they launch a hoax" from a pseudomedia outlet, their deputies amplify it, and their commentators muddy the public discourse," he criticized.

Indeed, this Wednesday, during the control session in Congress, the popular deputy Álvarez de Toledo used information from Libertad Digital to attack the Spanish government. "Does the president of the government have a health problem? You boast about transparency, so declassify his medical history," she said during a question to Minister Félix Bolaños. The head of the Presidency and Justice responded by pointing out the deputy's "moral baseness." "When one thinks that Álvarez de Toledo has reached the limit, there is always another step lower," he added.

Sources from Moncloa had already denied Sánchez's alleged illness on Monday, after Losantos' media outlet published the first article on the subject, and this Thursday the president himself did so. "If your only way of opposing is through lies, it means we are doing really well," he said in his tweet, concluding: "There will be government for a while longer."