Eduardo González
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday released to the media the messages sent by several international leftist leaders through the social network X to express his support for the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, after his decision to cancel his public agenda for a few days to “reflect” on whether or not he continues to lead the Executive following the investigations into his wife, Begoña Gómez.
“Today I spoke with the Spanish president to express my solidarity with his leadership and role for a democratic and increasingly fair, prosperous and humane Spain,” declared the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in one of those messages. “His strength and his role are important for his country, for Europe and for the world,” he added.
“The ‘mud machine’ driven by the Spanish extreme right has sought to destroy Pedro Sánchez’s family to stop progressive policies,” wrote Colombian President Gustavo Petro. “The policy of the right is to destroy people,” he continued. “My solidarity with the president of Spain and his family,” he added.
Petro affirms in his message that the “mud machine” does “the same task with the first progressive government” in Colombia, “only here, in addition, it murders.” “That machine, well oiled with lies, hatred and money, stops with popular mobilization, with those who want Colombia to advance,” he adds.
For his part, the Luxembourger Nicolas Schmit, who leads the candidacy of the European Socialist Party (PES) in the European elections next June, writes a brief message: “Pedro has been the victim of vile attacks from the far-right for a long time. I stand with Begoña, Pedro and their whole family.”
Schmit’s message appears linked to another from the PSE itself: “We condemn the latest far-right attacks in Spain, which are using spurious claims to harass Begoña Gómez, her husband, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and their family”. It also includes a message from the president of the party, Stefan Löfven: “From what can be understood from this alarming context, the natural reaction can only be to support Begoña, Pedro and his family in the face of these malicious attacks.” “The far right is using judicial proceedings as a weapon to attack the integrity of politics and tear the fabric of democracy,” he adds.
Likewise, in another message broadcast by Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister of Albania and president of his country’s Socialist Party (whose logo is an exact reproduction of the hand and rose of the PSOE), Edi Rama, writes to Sánchez: “It has everything our support in these times where resilience is needed more than ever against liars, defamers and manipulators of facts from the margins of the political sphere and the instruments of their propaganda.” “For Spain, for Europe and for all of us, never give up, never doubt that the truth will prevail, my dear friend,” he concludes.
This past Thursday, Sánchez received the support of Luis Arce, president of Bolivia, who expressed his solidarity with the President of the Government, denounced the “political and media lynching” of which he is the object and encouraged people to combat the “anti-politics” of those who “undermine democracy with lies.”
The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, also expressed his solidarity with Sánchez. And he stated: “Politics is a contest of ideas, not a litany of insults, abuse and attacks against the family.” In his X account, he added a statement from the Gibraltarian Government, in which he expressly encourages Sánchez to “continue and fight against the policy of personal vilification that the right has appropriated.”
