Pedro is the wolf: Sánchez dissolves Spain's Congress and calls elections

Pedro Sánchez has called a general election for Sunday 29 November 2026, bringing an end to a term in office in which he failed to pass a single national budget. Vozpópuli's analysis argues that the prime minister is "the wolf" he spent months warning about without ever calling an election, and cautions against assuming there will be no more tricks.

The term that passed no budget

Pedro Sánchez appeared before the press to announce the dissolution of Congress and the calling of a general election for Sunday **29 November 2026**. He did so, according to the analysis published by **Vozpópuli**, without a shred of self-criticism, and after a term the piece describes as a failure on one objective count: the Government has been unable to pass a single General State Budget. That is the fact underpinning the verdict on the legislature, whatever the adjectives.

The prime ministerial address, according to that reading, was at times a campaign rally and at times a threat. The author of the analysis, **Ignacia de Pano**, describes forced smiles among the president's inner circle — she names **Félix Bolaños** and **Diego Rubio**, his chief of staff — as a sign that this time the exit was really happening. Sánchez said what they wanted to hear: that the term was ending today.

## The list of grievances that never left the speech

The text runs through a string of issues that, in the author's view, went unmentioned in the address. The handling of the **Dana** flooding disaster and the wildfires. The management of the rail networks. **Ceuta**, which the analysis describes as having been overrun for two months. The tax burden on taxpayers. The corruption that, on this reading, reaches the party's secretary general and his right-hand man, both in prison, with his brother and his attorney general convicted and his vvife about to stand trial.

The analysis also mentions the transfers of **ETA** murderers to the Basque Country on night-time journeys and their subsequent release, which the author calls a revictimisation of those murdered and their families. She mentions police officers losing their lives in the Strait of Gibraltar for lack of resources. And the swings in relations with **Segarro**, which she attributes to the president's personal interests rather than the legitimate interests of the Nation.

None of these issues passed his lips. They were there, the text says, in his silences. The author argues that everything this Government touches degrades: infrastructure visibly falls apart. And she adds that Sánchez himself has become a drag on his own party, which does not want to take the punishment by proxy in the next local and regional elections.

## The wolf was him all along

The analysis warns against complacency. The polls predict an overwhelming victory for the centre right, but the parties that make it up would do well not to trust them. Sánchez, cornered with nothing left to lose, will use the month and a half he has left at the Moncloa in ways, the author says, we cannot yet even imagine. He must be confronted with everything, and none of his traps fallen into.

These elections are not just another election, the text argues. What is at stake is the continuation of the democratic system and the regeneration of institutions that, in its view, are crumbling, eaten away by sanchismo (the president's political faction). It is essential to be clear about who the adversary is and not to confuse targets in the attacks. Spain needs to drive its enemies out of the Moncloa now, it concludes.

The closing gives the analysis its title. There were other moments during the term when Sánchez led people to believe he would call an election, only not to do so. He cried wolf many times. What he never said, and what we now know, is that the wolf was him all along.

## What is known and what is opinion

There are two verifiable facts: the election called for **29 November 2026** and the absence of any approved General State Budget during the term. The rest of the analysis is political commentary signed by its author in **Vozpópuli**, not a neutral account. The corruption allegations, the management figures and the characterisations of the adversary are opinions attributed to that byline, not proven facts.

The quote "Pedro is the wolf" is the title of the analysis, not a statement by the prime minister. Any reader coming to this story for the first time should distinguish between the fact — an election being called — and the interpretation a particular outlet makes of it. Politics is not an exact science, and polls predicting landslide victories have been wrong before. Nothing included here constitutes legal or electoral advice.