{"id":24404,"date":"2026-02-25T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=24404"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:57:37","slug":"spains-government-spinning-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/spains-government-spinning-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain’s Government: Spinning Out of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deprived of Marxism, the Spanish left has sought refuge in a disparate ideological mosaic: radical environmentalism, complicit indulgence toward political Islam, the dismantling of borders, unconditional support for the Palestinians against Israel \u2013 all stacked together into an improbable and incoherent magma. <\/em>The S\u00e1nchez government has another reason for aligning with jihadists: the corruption scandals that have engulfed even the prime minister’s immediate family.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The high point of the Spanish left’s radicalization was reached with a January 2026 decree legalizing between 500<\/span>,000<\/span> and a million illegal immigrants<\/span>. Although presented as a humanitarian and economic measure, this slap-happy decision provoked widespread outrage among Spaniards.<\/em><\/p>\n

Traumatized by its history, cornered by the judiciary, and deprived of ideological reference points, the Spanish left appears to be locking itself into radical dogmas and adopting increasingly divisive policies simply to remain in power.<\/em><\/p>\n

Between corruption and radicalization, Spain’s government seems to be spinning out of control.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1936, Spain\u00a0plunged<\/a>\u00a0into civil war. A proud nation collapsed into violence, fire, and devastation. The Spanish Civil War, which set a communist-dominated Republican left against an authoritarian nationalist right, claimed roughly half a million lives. Priests were dragged through the streets, beaten, and mutilated \u2014 ears, noses, even genitals cut off \u2014 before being shot or having their throats slit. Nuns were raped prior to execution, in cases documented across several regions. Churches were set ablaze with priests still inside. In many towns, militiamen forced clergy to drink motor oil or gasoline before burning them alive. Spain’s right wing, not to be outdone, killed just as many.<\/em><\/p>\n

Almost a century later, when one might have hoped that these wounds had finally healed, political and cultural fault lines are reopening. Polarization has reached levels rarely seen since Spain’s transition to democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. The original trauma of the Spanish left<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Spanish Civil War, in Spain’s collective memory, remains an open wound. For a significant portion of the Spanish “left” — standing for workers’ rights, a shorter work week, women’s and transgender rights, reducing carbon emissions — the dominant narrative remains that of a revolution\u00a0betrayed<\/a>, confiscated by fascism, and still pending, never repaired. This historical resentment has been transmitted from generation to generation like an act of faith. Today, under the government of Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez and his coalition, which governs with the support of the\u00a0extreme-left<\/a>, this resentment is resurfacing in the form of historical revisionism.<\/em><\/p>\n

    By constantly summoning the specters of the past \u2014 going so far as to exhume Francisco Franco’s remains, in a direct evocation of civil-war-era practices, when communists gleefully desecrated the graves of their so-called “class enemies” \u2014 is the left not in danger of reviving the hatreds and violence of the past?<\/em><\/p>\n

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    1. A left without a compass: ideological orphanhood<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Spain’s left is becoming more radical precisely because it has run out of ideas. Marxism, long the doctrinal\u00a0backbone<\/a>\u00a0of the global left, lost all credibility with the implosion of the USSR, amid the stench of\u00a0cabbage<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0corpses<\/a>. Spain is no exception. Stripped of this ideological foundation, the Spanish left now finds itself without a compass.<\/em><\/p>\n

      Before the July 2023 elections, S\u00e1nchez\u00a0promised<\/a>\u00a0a bold progressive agenda: mass public housing construction, reducing the working week to 37.5 hours, large minimum wage hikes, slashing healthcare waiting lists with binding maximum times, free public transport for youth, and expanded public education. Critically, delivery on these massive flagship promises has been dismal to date: virtually no new public housing\u00a0built<\/a>, prices soaring, the work-week reduction\u00a0defeated<\/a>\u00a0in parliament, real wages eroded by inflation, and chronic healthcare waiting lists unchanged.<\/em><\/p>\n

      S\u00e1nchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), once anchored in moderate, reformist social democracy, has gradually shifted toward a strategy of sheer\u00a0political survival<\/a>. To remain in power, it allied itself first with Podemos and then with Sumar\u2014two extreme left-wing parties obsessed with supporting Palestinians, against NATO, and soft on Russia \u2014 as well as with\u00a0separatist<\/a>\u00a0movements. In doing so, the PSOE diluted its original moderate reformist vision through blatant opportunism, sacrificing doctrinal coherence in favor of questionable alliances.<\/em><\/p>\n

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      1. A patchwork of incoherent dogmas<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Deprived of Marxism, the Spanish left has sought refuge in a disparate ideological mosaic: radical\u00a0environmentalism<\/a>, complicit indulgence toward political Islam, the\u00a0dismantling<\/a>\u00a0of borders, unconditional\u00a0support<\/a>\u00a0for the Palestinians against Israel \u2013 all stacked together into an improbable and incoherent magma. Added to this are recurring undertones of\u00a0anti-Semitism<\/a>\u00a0in left-wing discourse \u2014 one thinks in particular of Yolanda D\u00edaz, seemingly a figure of clinical hysteria, whose face visibly\u00a0contorts<\/a>\u00a0the moment she pronounces the word “Israeli.”<\/em><\/p>\n

        By radicalizing itself across every issue, the left fuels the\u00a0anger<\/a>\u00a0of the right, the middle classes, and a growing segment of the population that feels marginalized, despised, and alienated within its own country.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        1. A regime corrupt to the core?<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          The S\u00e1nchez government has another reason for aligning with jihadists: the corruption scandals that have engulfed even the prime minister’s immediate family.<\/em><\/p>\n

          First comes the Koldo-\u00c1balos\u00a0scandal<\/a>\u00a0involving irregular public contracts, illegal commissions, and bribes linked to public-works contracts, totaling several hundred million euros. Several figures are particularly implicated. Former Minister of Transport Jos\u00e9 Luis \u00c1balos, a close ally of S\u00e1nchez, is in pre-trial detention for criminal organization, corruption, embezzlement, and influence peddling.<\/em><\/p>\n

          Koldo Garc\u00eda, \u00c1balos’s former adviser, is a central figure in the scheme. He too is in pre-trial detention and under prosecution. Santos Cerd\u00e1n, former secretary of organization of the PSOE and \u00c1balos’s successor, is under investigation and was\u00a0detained<\/a>\u00a0for corruption in public-works contracts. The Civil Guard is examining 22 contracts, worth \u20ac355 million, that were allegedly manipulated by favoritism.<\/em><\/p>\n

          Added to this are the cases involving S\u00e1nchez’s own family. Bego\u00f1a G\u00f3mez, his wife, was formally\u00a0charged<\/a>\u00a0with influence peddling, corruption in business, embezzlement of public funds, misappropriation, and illegally practicing a regulated profession, in a case that was opened in April 2024. In August 2025, the probe was extended to include her advisor Cristina \u00c1lvarez.<\/em><\/p>\n

          The investigation into G\u00f3mez has been extended until at least April 2026 and continues with active measures, including February 2026\u00a0requests<\/a>\u00a0to the Interior Ministry for travel records of G\u00f3mez and \u00c1lvarez since 2018 (covering destinations such as the Dominican Republic, Congo, Guinea, and Russia), access to emails, and Civil Guard reports.<\/em><\/p>\n

          David S\u00e1nchez, the prime minister’s brother, is also being\u00a0prosecuted<\/a>, for influence peddling and malfeasance in connection with his employment at the Badajoz Provincial Council. “The prime minister faces multiple legal challenges this year that could lead to the downfall of his family, his party, and his government,”\u00a0summarizes<\/a>\u00a0Spanish daily\u00a0El Mundo.<\/em><\/p>\n

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          1. An ideological junta radicalizing itself to survive<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            The high point of the Spanish left’s radicalization was reached with a January 2026\u00a0decree<\/a>\u00a0legalizing between 500,000 and a million illegal immigrants. Although presented as a humanitarian and economic measure, this slap-happy decision provoked widespread outrage among Spaniards. The Vox party has\u00a0identified<\/a>\u00a0this as a massive “pull factor” that will inevitably attract millions of additional illegal immigrants. Public services, already under severe strain, are on the brink of collapse. Entire swathes of Spanish territory are, additionally,\u00a0drifting<\/a>\u00a0toward an Islamic cultural environment.<\/em><\/p>\n

            Heading toward the point of no return?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

            The warning signs are multiplying. Traumatized by its history, cornered by the judiciary, and deprived of ideological reference points, the Spanish left appears to be locking itself into radical dogmas and adopting increasingly divisive policies simply to remain in power.<\/em><\/p>\n

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