Sánchez cedes power to hoaxes
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Sánchez cedes power to hoaxes

El Periódico Mediterráneo - General31 August 2026 at 12:15

Pedro Sánchez made his first radio appearance since his vacation after a period of absence from public life. The head of the Spanish government spoke with presenter Aimar Bretos, marking his return to the media after the so-called irrenunciable vacation.

In his intervention, Sánchez would have ceded ground to what the article designates as hoaxes and disinformation, considered as forces conjured to submit Spain to the greatest humiliation at its borders since Napoleon's times.

The article refers that social media users, described as never being socialism, would have distorted a Supreme Court ruling to appropriate the situation in Ceuta, where a civil guard, described as solitary, was welcoming.

The commentary still classifies the situation as the first invasion of desperate jurists on record, in a satirical reference to events that would have surrounded the court ruling and the border situation in Ceuta.

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