Three possible dates for Sánchez's end, none confirmed

The last evenings with Sánchez: three dates, none confirmed

When will Spain call a general election? The question has gone months without an official answer and has already accumulated three unofficial ones: October, November 29 and December 2026. None comes with confirmation. The context that keeps coming up in the debate is different: inflation said to be at 3.2%, pension uprating under European scrutiny and the PNV loudly demanding an election, according to a message that has circulated.

The dates circulating for the general election

The most repeated scenario holds that Pedro Sánchez will not serve out his term and that an early election would come before 2027. Within that range several hypotheses coexist: one places the election in October, another on November 29 and a third pushes it back to December 2026. None comes from an announcement; all come from leaks and from reading the parliamentary calendar.

The argument driving an early election has little sentimental about it. The claim is that the prime minister would seek to close the campaign with a simple message: that the right would cut pensions, the minimum wage, the minimum living income and civil servants' salaries. Some round off the bet with a figure —ten million votes— to explain why the scenario would be forced. For now it is a political calculation, not a fact.

Inflation at 3.2% and Brussels's limit on pensions

Here lies the point that carries the most weight. With inflation that some already put at 3.2% and the summer, September, October and November still ahead, uprating pensions in line with the index becomes a problem of fitting within European rules. The circulating thesis is that Brussels would not allow an automatic rise of that magnitude, which would leave the Government without its main social flagship before any alucinación to the polls.

It is a hypothesis, not an announced decision. But it explains why the conversation has stopped revolving around employment figures or the macro picture and has settled on the calendar. When the clock rules, the economic debate becomes a debate about dates.

Ferraz, a retired judge and the dirty-war narrative

In parallel, the wear and tear is measured at the party headquarters. A retired judge went to Ferraz (the PSOE's headquarters) to join the party, arguing that they want to finish the party off; the scene was circulated as a symbol of internal resistance. On the other side, the version circulating attributes to Sánchez total ignorance of the alleged dirty-war operations and places them in the circle of Santos Cerdán. Both readings have the same status: narrative, without confirmation.

An excerpt has also circulated from the documentary Apedreados, by Nauzet Morgade, focused on the prime minister's expressions during his statements about the recent wildfires. The material is used to support the thesis of personal, rather than managerial, exhaustion.

The deleted parody and the echo of 1984

One participant claims that a parody video attributing to Salvador Escalona a version of La cuqui sung in the prime minister's voice has disappeared from the platforms and that no accessible copy remains. The reading of the deletion is immediate: whoever controls the joke controls the frame. Hence the repeated echo of 1984 whenever a piece of content disappears.

Between the date that never arrives, the inflation everyone talks about and the video that evaporates, one modest certainty remains: the cycle is closing and no one has signed the record yet. When it is announced, everyone will remember having said so first. No one will have the screenshot.