Sánchez at teh Cinema While Díaz loses Vote on Workday Reduction

Madrid – It metaphorically explains Spanish politics that Pedro Sánchez went to the cinema with Begoña Gómez on Wednesday night, while in Congress his second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, defended the reduction of the working day alone and lost. The Spanish president and his wife, who had gone to court that morning to testify before Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, attended the premiere of The Captive, Alejandro Amenábar’s new film. Sánchez is today a president captive of a part of the judiciary-he himself opened the year by denouncing that there are judges who “play politics”-and of the seven Junts votes in Congress, and he is rowing against a media wave that collaborates with the “Whoever can make it happen” narrative of former Spanish president josé María Aznar.This week Sánchez made his TikTok debut.

The moncloa Palace has long been obsessed with the right-wing bias of the customary media ecosystem – television, radio and newspapers – but is attempting to compensate through RTVE and a digital universe that is very difficult to control. On Monday, in a menu bar on Ferraz Street, next to the PSOE headquarters, an elderly woman left a comment on the podcast of a far-right YouTuber in an episode titled: “CNI agents ask Felipe VI for help: “We can’t take it anymore.” Without even listening to him, the woman wrote: “The king is neither here nor expected; if not, the people, the CNI, the UCO…” In conventional spaces, the musician Nacho Cano insinuates a military coup d’état and on social networks one of the summer chants at concerts and clubs goes viral: “Pedro Sánchez, son of a bitch“.

Thanks to the PP, within the Madrid M-30 the phrase “I like fruit” [the “son of a bitch” that Isabel Díaz Ayuso dedicated to Sánchez] has gained traction, and on Wednesday the first control session in Congress of the new course became a discussion between the PSOE and the PP about who insults (more) and who doesn’t. The day ended, though, with a heated and “captivating” debate – as agreed upon by Junts – along with the PP and Vox, preventing even the flagship project of Sumar leader Yolanda Díaz from being processed. The Spanish president was at the cinema and didn’t vote.”He had an agenda and it wasn’t necessary [for him to vote], unfortunatly,” they explain at the moncloa Palace.