Pedro Sánchez, born in 1972, has built a myth of resilience throughout his political career, having faced multiple political battles against the right-wing forces that despise him. In 2014, he managed to overcome the barons of the PSOE to win the party's leadership, and on 2 July 2018 he reached the presidency of the Spanish government.
Now, entering the final year of his second term as prime minister, Sánchez faces what may be the most serious crisis of his political career. The Ceuta crisis emerges as a critical moment that threatens to end his political trajectory.
The article questions whether Ceuta will be the last of Sánchez's seven political lives, in a reference to the idea that cats have nine lives, suggesting that the Spanish leader has already survived multiple political threats but may not withstand this new challenge. The crisis in the Spanish city of Ceuta, in North Africa, will have been the blow that threatens to be fatal to his political career.
