Pedro Sánchez

Pedro Sánchez   (economist, politician)
Born	Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón 29 February 1972
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, IESE Business School, Camilo José Cela University
Party	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spanish Prime Minister whose first task in the position was meeting with George Soros. In 2018 yielded to pressure from the Integrity Initiative.  Prime Minister of Spain In office 2 June 2018 - Present Preceded by Mariano Rajoy

Pedro Sánchez is a Spanish economist and politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since 2 June 2018. He is also Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), holding office for the second time after winning a leadership election in June 2017.

Career

He was town councillor in the City Council of Madrid from 2004 to 2009. In 2009, he was first elected Deputy in the Congress of Deputies. In 2014, he became Secretary-General of the PSOE, and he was the party's candidate for prime minister in the 2015 and 2016 Spanish general elections. During his first term as Secretary-General, he was opposed to the re-election of Rajoy as Prime Minister. Rajoy needed the abstention of the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies in order to secure a parliamentary majority. Tensions grew within the party that allowed Rajoy to form a government; due to its opposition by Sánchez, he stepped down as Secretary-General on 1 October 2016. He simultaneously resigned as Deputy, and a caretaker committee took over the PSOE leadership. He would eventually win the party primaries, defeating Susana Díaz and Patxi López, and was reinstated Secretary-General in June 2017. Under his tenure, the party backed the Government of Spain in its handling of the Catalan independence referendum and the subsequent constitutional crisis.

On 31 May 2018 the PSOE filed a vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy, which passed with the support of the PSOE, Unidos Podemos, and Basque, Valencian and Catalan regionalist and nationalist parties. On 1 June 2018, a Royal Decree named Pedro Sánchez Prime Minister of Spain and he was officially sworn into the office before King Felipe VI the day after.

Pressure from the Integrity Initiative

In June 2018, Pedro Sánchez announced plans to appoint Pedro Baños as Director of the Spanish Department of Homeland Security‎. However, when the Spanish cluster of the Integrity Initiative learned of this, perceiving Baños as a "pro-Kremlin voice" they began an intensive lobby against his appointment. After 6 days Pedro Sánchez instead appointed Miguel Ángel Ballesteros.

George Soros

The first "official" visit that Pedro Sánchez had after becoming prime minister was by George Soros in June 2018. They tried to keep the meeting secret, but the press at that time brought it to light, revealing that the then first-time prime minister had criticized all vulture funds during his campaign and then met with the largest financial speculator in the world. At that meeting, the billionaire shared his economic and future views on Spain and Europe.

A few months after that first secret meeting, in September 2018 Pedro Sánchez went to New York where he was promoted by a group of "philanthropists" and businessmen, including the Head of Investments at Soros Fund Management, Dawn Fitzpatrick. Also present was the representative of Blackstone, a "vulture" investment fund. This meeting took place at the US-Spain Chamber of Commerce.

Alexander Soros, son of George Soros and heir to his empire, has also had several meetings with the prime minister. The first was during the World Economic Forum in Davos. He also met with the tycoon's son during the Climate Action Summit and at the United Nations General Assembly.

2024 Meeting with Bill Gates

In January 2024, at the sidelines of the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos, Sánchez boasted about his alignment with Bill Gates: "Fruitful meeting with Bill Gates in Davos. We must maintain the international commitment to the global health and development cooperation objectives. We will continue working, together with Gates Foundation, to promote the green transition and the digital transformation that allows us to build a healthier, cleaner and fairer world.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World Economic Forum Switzerland	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	World Economic Forum Switzerland	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	World Economic Forum Switzerland	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

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