A magician Prime Minister who tries to create a diversion. This is the image used by The reason after Pedro Sánchez’s press conference on July 29 in Madrid. All smiles, and without a tie, he invited his ministers and the Spaniards to “follow his example”. The conservative Madrid daily accuses the Prime Minister of “diverting attention by means of secondary and futile subjects.”
This “staggering statement” by Pedro Sánchez also questions the Seville Journal, that it was not an improvised joke: “With such advisors, who needs enemies?”. The Andalusian daily criticizes, in its forum with a mocking title, the “presidential childishness” and ironically: “If the Kyoto Protocol and the 2030 Agenda are to consider the importance of wearing a tie in the summer, and the leader of a troubled country makes a momentous discovery that turns out to be a key to sustainable development, then here we are. ready.”
“Don’t take us for fools”
According The reason, who works to list sensitive topics on the government desk, Pedro Sánchez applies a method “Machiavellian” : “While we talk about absurd things, Sánchez, his spokespersons, his ministers and his press are busy building a regime that will allow them to never leave power”.
The Galician Mail, meanwhile, also urges the government to pull itself together: “Don’t take us for fools, because the tie does not unbalance our economy, nor does it solve its problems”writes the newspaper of Galicia, which titles the acid tribune: “The solution to all our problems: the tie”.
An analysis shared by The National, who considers “that it’s easier to discuss the energy savings of ties than to deal with the dire economy of Spain, where inflation recently hit 10.8% – a rate not seen in 38 years – and plunges into poverty the most modest within the middle class.”
“Companies that manufacture and market the ties will have to overcome their frivolities.”