The Government has not congratulated citizens on Christmas since Sánchez arrived at the Moncloa

2023-12-27 10:59:59

Since the first Christmas, in 2018, with Sánchez in La Moncloa, the Government has stopped explicitly congratulating citizens on Christmas and has started doing so with the “holidays”.

It is not possible to find a single mention of the word “Christmas” in the official congratulations of the socialist president like Moncloa, except for a single occasion in which in 2019 he wanted to congratulate the members of the Armed Forces deployed in compliance of his missions abroad.

In 2018, the president hopes that Spanish society will never lack “excitement and courage to continue working for what we believe in,” which, as he indicated, is to achieve greater equality, justice and prosperity. “I wish you happy holidays,” the message ended.

In December of the following year, in 2019, Sánchez introduced regional languages ​​for the first time in a shorter greeting. He wrote “happy holidays” in Spanish, Basque, Catalan and Galician, and conveyed his desire to achieve “for everyone” more “justice, peace and harmony.”

An end to 2020 marked by COVID was the main theme he alluded to in a new Christmas card in which he did not mention Christmas. Sánchez considered in it that the pandemic had “changed many things” in the lives of Spaniards and, therefore, they had to “take care of what matters most” which he later pointed out were loved ones, affection, solidarity, social justice and equality. “Happy holidays,” he ended up writing once again.

In 2021 he wished “everyone hope, hope and prosperity” during the Christmas holidays that were once again affected by the restrictions imposed by the authorities in the face of COVID. The president asked citizens to celebrate “in a different way, with more caution.” In the end there was no shortage of “happy holidays” again.

Last Christmas, 2022, President Sánchez called for “understanding, coexistence and encounter”, while conveying his best wishes with the hope that the future would bring “peace, prosperity and solidarity”, some of the words he already used in congratulations from previous years. “Happy holidays,” he also ended up wishing.

This 2023 has not been different. The congratulations of the “holidays” in Spanish and the three regional co-official languages ​​have returned, as they did four years ago. Along with this, in what he considered a time of year of “closeness and encounter” he has claimed the need to build “together” a country of “coexistence, peace and harmony.”