Pedro S��nchez, Spain’s Socialist prime minister since 2018, has built an international image as a progressive leader. But the 24-year sentence for his former right-hand man and transport minister highlights the corruption scandals surrounding his government.
He governs with the support of separatist, ultra-nationalist parties. His former top aide has now been sentenced to prison, while another faces trial. His wife and brother are facing separate legal cases for corruption, and the state bailout of a Venezuela-linked airline is also under investigation.
https://t.co/sXa8ja2ePe
Imagine if FBI agents entered Democratic Party headquarters while the President’s wife, brother, closest aides, mentor, party bosses and former top prosecutor were all under simultaneous investigation.
That is Spain right now.
Pedro Sánchez built his global brand as Europe’s “anti-Trump,��� the progressive left’s moral alternative to populism, the darling of the New Yorker and the New York Times.
Now his Socialist Party is under criminal investigation, police have entered party headquarters, and the scandal is reaching the Prime Minister’s own inner circle.
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🇪🇸 Spanish PM Sánchez's policy to give migrants residency to fill labor gaps and counter depopulation is clearly working
Welcome to another EU country destroying its society with suicidal empathy
Sam’s monologue from The Two Towers
Frodo : I can't do this, Sam.
Sam : I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.