Pedro Sanchez This Sunday he celebrated the second anniversary of his inauguration as President of the Government with a biased compilation video published on his social networks.
Sánchez has boasted that, thanks to his executive action, “we are a country that grows more than the rest of the advanced economies.” Observing that the incontrovertibly good macroeconomic data is essentially explained by the population growth caused by immigration.
The president has also noted the increase in the minimum wage and the protection of pension increases as achievements. Which only reveals the clientelist dynamic with which it strengthens the captive vote that makes up its dwindling social base.
And it is simply laughable that Sánchez has reaffirmed the “priority” granted by his government to “affordable housing”, when it is the subject in which the incompetence of his cabinet has been most evident.
Access to housing is more prohibitive than ever, and rent consumes an increasing portion of household budgets. The only thing that the Government has tried to alleviate it are the demagogic measures highlighted by Sánchez: eliminating the Golden Visa, regulating seasonal rentals and approving the Housing Law.
That is, eliminate an investor visa that barely represents between 0.3 and 0.5% of total home purchase and sale operations; the persecution of tourist rentals to which the Government itself pushes owners who flee from the leonine burdens imposed on rent; and a rule that is not being applied because many of the autonomous communities on which its execution depends refuse to support its disastrous interventionist approach.
Equally embarrassing is that the president congratulates himself on the approval of the Parity Law, while ignoring the negligence of the Ministry of Equality with the anti-abuse bracelets.
The video also contains misleading statements, such as that the Government has dedicated more than 8,000 million euros to the reconstruction of the areas affected by dana.
A figure that also includes guarantees and compensation paid by the Insurance Compensation Consortium, financed by the contributions of the insured, while direct aid on behalf of the central government is reduced to around 2.8 billion euros.
In addition to the sweetened account of political and socioeconomic reality, Sánchez’s cannot be considered a real balance due to the glaring omissions it contains.
Starting with the Amnesty Law, which is at the very origin of the investiture it commemorates.
But he has also not mentioned the judicial investigations for corruption against his family environment and his two former Organization secretaries.
Nor the unusual collapse that caused the general blackout, and that precisely revealed the dogmatic approach of the “climate commitment” of the Executive that it prides itself on.
Nor the immigration challenge, having avoided indicating how many foreigners have entered Spain legally or illegally in these two years.
It is obvious thatSánchez is speaking to retain his electoral fishing grounds. And hence he avoids the most compromising subjects.
But the logical thing is that Sánchez would have mentioned these core issues, to defend the relevance of the amnesty, the initiatives to combat corruption in his party or the reaction of the energy system to the blackout. His silence reveals that he can only be ashamed of his management in these matters.
In the same way that the president resorted to formulas such as “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember” in his recent appearance before the Senate investigation commission, Sánchez’s biannual memorandum also does not mention his constant “changes of opinion”, his “days of reflection” or anything of the deplorable things that have happened in these two years of ungovernability and absence of General State Budgets.
The president has assured that they have not stopped working “to improve the lives of ordinary people.” But the string of violations that marked his last term does not allow such a conclusion to be drawn. And there is no propaganda video that can lift two years in which Sánchez has gone from scandal to scandal.