Comment on On Iran, Spain's Sanchez rises above the bowed heads of Europe

• Sepia@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  he takes a unique stance against the big powers?

  Pedro Sanchez is apparently not interested in human rights. He contracted Spain’s judicial wiretapping system to Huawei from China, a country he considers an ‘ally,’ and its dictatorial government is not famous exactly for respecting the rule of law. And this is just one example that shows Sanchez’s character.

  Sanchez is doing what he thinks is helpful to his career and nothing else. This person is a shame for his country and entire Europe. He should have resigned long time ago.

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  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just because the western media (who lied to you shamelessly about all their enemies) tells you a country is dictatorial or has bad human rights doesn’t mean its actually true. Working with China makes sanchez more respectable, not less

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    • Sepia@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      @Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip

      If Pedro Sanchez values human rights, where has he been all the years when Iranians have been killed by their own regime? What did he say about genocidal politics against Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongolians, and other minorities committed by a brutal regimes in China when seeking business there?

      What the sitting Spanish PM is doing is just fighting for his own survival and has nothing to do with morality.

      The prime minister is facing a scandal involving a Socialist party hack who allegedly sought incriminating evidence on the police unit that is investigating his wife for alleged corruption and influence-peddling, along with his brother, according to reports. What moral stance is this?

      Public anger also lingers over the response of both the national and conservative regional government to the floods in Valencia that killed 229 people in 2024. Back then, Sanchez visited the flooded region, fled the scenery over angry citizens btw. Further questions have been raised after several high-speed train derailments killed dozens of people in January.

      Sanchez is loosing even support of the left as demonstrated by Yolanda Díaz, Spain’s deputy prime minister and the communist head of populist left-wing Movimiento Sumar, the government’s main coalition partner. Díaz announced last week that she will not stand in the general election next year.

      Recent regional elections in Spain give a glimpse where the country is heading. There is a very strong discontent towards both the ruling Socialists and the conservative Popular Party with the beneficiary being the far-right Vox, as suggested also by recent polls. And this is not in the least owed to Sanchez’s politics who does nothing for the people but only for himself and his own circles.

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      • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If Pedro Sanchez values human rights, where has he been all the years when Iranians have been killed by their own regime? What did he say about genocidal politics against Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongolians, and other minorities committed by a brutal regimes in China when seeking business there?

        He doesn’t need to stand up for fictional crimes.

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