Alsina destaca en su monólogo cómo Sánchez se mantiene firme con Zapatero: "Atrincherado en El Álamo

The journalist highlighted how Pedro Sánchez remains steadfast in his support for José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, even though he abandoned his former Secretary of Organization, José Luis Ábalos, with far less evidence. #psoe #spain #ábalos https://www.ondacero.es/programas/mas... Let me tell you a story—it's very short, you'll see. Lieutenant Colonel Travis, born in South Carolina, also enjoyed sending letters to the public, just like Sánchez. On February 24, 1836, he wrote to the people of Texas and to Americans around the world: “Fellow citizens, I am besieged by a thousand or more soldiers of Santa Anna. They are bombarding me, they are shelling me. I call upon you in the name of liberty to come to my aid. I shall never surrender. I shall never retreat. Victory or death!” Ten days later, William Barrett Travis was dead. Like Jim Bowie. Like Davy Crockett. History blended with legend, facts with fiction, and one of the founding myths of the United States was born: the Battle of the Alamo. The Texans, besieged by General Santa Anna, who resisted like lions in the fort of the old Spanish mission. The epic of resistance. So appealing to those who consider themselves victims of an unjust and disproportionate siege. So appealing to the authors of resistance manuals. The most repeated headline, "Pedro Sánchez chooses to resist," is probably the headline that has been published most often in Spain over the last eight years. These days it's being published again. Sánchez resists. Strictly speaking, all it means is that he won't call Spaniards to the polls until he has no other choice. He will have no other choice next year because legislatures, unlike budgets, cannot be extended to suit a president who fails to fulfill his constitutional obligations. There will be elections. What is within Sánchez's control is to ensure they are before July 2027. Refusing to do so, no matter what, is what resisting means today. Which was never synonymous with governing. Much less with governing with a parliamentary majority. The Zapatero case, or Zeta Plus, once again exposes the president's contradictions. The long-suffering Ábalos—a pleasure-seeking minister with all-expenses-paid trips and hotels—was sidelined in 2024, repudiated and ousted, even before he was under judicial investigation. The mere arrest of this Koldo fellow was enough to get the president's thumbs down. His predecessor at La Moncloa and in the party, and current president of his fan club, Rodríguez Zapatero, has already been formally charged by a judge. And in just seven days, from the initial charges until today, so much information has come to light about the material the investigators are gathering that, if I had to summarize it for you, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Unlike what happened to Ábalos, Sánchez hasn't even considered suspending Zapatero's party membership. With the summary already delivered to the parties yesterday—the PSOE's publicists' excuse that the investigation is secret is over, and Zapatero's excuse that he cannot reveal his clients or activities due to professional secrecy and data protection is also over—we now know: Third: that in the home of Julio Martínez, Zapatero's friend and paymaster, with whom the president ran every week but with whom he apparently only discussed sneaker brands and Borges, the police found cash hidden in sports bags, in the bathroom, and in a radiator, amounting to more than three hundred thousand euros, and that he moved half a million euros from his accounts in Miami when he feared they would be frozen. He must be a business genius because he has a fortune without it being clear exactly what he does for a living. Fourth: that one of the certificates that Social Security must issue to any company requesting a bailout is missing from the documentation on the bailout provided by SEPI; The suspicion is that there was never a certificate, and yet a bailout did take place. Well, there's more. He uses it. A bald and unpopular version of Zapatero. And, as a bonus, they found a little notebook on this Julio Martínez—there's always a notebook in any self-respecting scheme—which would suggest that this Martínez wasn't just the front man, or the one who disguised the income, but Zapatero's very embodiment, his alter ego, for political negotiations in Venezuela.