Pedro Sánchez adds a migration bomb to his scorched earth policy in Spain

@ElentirENG ES 8·28·2024 · 6:16 0

The management of the socialist Pedro Sánchez at the head of the Spanish government seems designed to be able to do as much damage as possible to the country.

The complicit role of Feijóo and the Popular Party in Pedro Sánchez's immigration bomb
Mauritania and the cost to Spain of having a bad ruler who yields to blackmail

Leaving Spain as damaged as possible to the next government

The decisions that Sánchez is making are no longer explained only by an attempt to stay in power at any cost, regardless of the damage that his pacts with the separatists may cause to the Spanish people (for example, the tax increase that he will have to implement in order to grant full fiscal autonomy to Catalonia, which is the latest price that the secessionists have put on their support for Sánchez to stay in power).

His absolute disregard for the common good, for the rule of law and for Spain's territorial coherence make it clear that the reasons for Sánchez's decisions are beyond the horizon of his mandate. He is no longer just thinking about staying in power by any means, forcing the Spanish people to pay a very high price for it. What Sánchez is doing is leaving a Spain as damaged as possible to the government that comes after, perhaps because he knows that he will no longer have a chance of governing again as soon as there are new elections.

The precedents of the ruin that the socialists left in 1996 and 2011

The PSOE socialists are experts at leaving Spain economically ruined every time they govern. They did it in 1996, when Felipe González was defeated at the polls after 14 years in power. They did it again with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2011, after seven years in office. The Sánchez government has been manipulating official statistics for years to disguise the disaster it is causing, for example by disguising unemployment with the creation of the figure of "discontinuous fixed-term workers".

All this disaster will come to light when he leaves La Moncloa, but the effects will have to be borne by the next government, which will have to assume the repercussions of the adjustment measures that have to be taken. It will be then that the left will take up its banners and launch into agitation, as it has done in the past.

Sanchez offers 250,000 jobs for immigrants on his trip to Mauritania

This Tuesday, on an official visit to that country (the second this year: on the first one he already allowed himself to be blackmailed at the expense of the Spanish people), Sánchez offered 250,000 jobs for Mauritanian citizens, news that has surprised many Spaniards, since it had not been previously announced by the government. The announcement seems like a practical joke considering that there are 2.67 million unemployed people in Spain. Currently it is the country with the highest unemployment rate in Europe (11.5%), figures that summarise the disastrous policy of destruction of wealth and employment that Sánchez is carrying out from power, applying socialist recipes (especially constant tax increases) that only serve to scare away investors.

A radically irresponsible announcement that is a real immigration bomb

Thus, Sanchez is incapable of creating the conditions to generate jobs in Spain and despite this he goes to Mauritania to promise 250,000 jobs for citizens of that country, as if he were going to pull those jobs out of his sleeve with a magic wand. This announcement by Sánchez, in the midst of a wave of illegal immigrants from Morocco and Mauritania, is to aggravate the call effect that the policies of the Spanish left have been having of allowing the entry of illegal immigrants and distributing them throughout Spain, instead of returning them to their country, and then announcing a massive regularization supported by the Popular Party, in one of its many favors to the socialists.

With this announcement, what Sánchez is doing is adding a migration bomb to his scorched earth policy, a bomb that he may expect to explode in the next government, but that could explode in his hands. For many Spaniards, this migration bomb will mean even more unsafe neighborhoods and even more precarious jobs, due to the deterioration of working conditions that mass immigration is already generating, especially among the least qualified workers (such as construction, agriculture and hospitality). But Sánchez does not care: he has a comfortable and luxurious future already assured thanks to the privileges that former presidents of the government in Spain have.

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