The stack of sheets was thick. And it was not only because the font was generously sized to be easily readable. There was content and a desire to elaborate. Pedro Sánchez appeared at La Moncloa to review the political term before the summer holidays, in an event that turned into a review of his eight years leading the Government and a kind of starting gun for the electoral campaign, whose drums will already sound loudly after the break. The head of the Executive displayed what he called the “common sense agenda,” with a profusion of macroeconomic, energy, social investment data, measures, initiatives, international geopolitical position… where he did not mention corruption. A matter he did have to address in response to journalists’ questions.
Every semester, Sánchez appears in a session called ‘Delivering,’ whose purpose is to provide an account of the promises made. However, this July 2026 session turned into a display of what the Government has done since 2018, not just in the last six months. A showcase to exhibit measures and numbers ahead of the electoral race in which the parties are already immersed.
An intervention and some charts that referred back to 2018 and not January 2026, with the purpose of contrasting his Government’s actions with the “neoliberal model” that, he states, the PP implemented in previous administrations. “Cuts, precariousness, cuts to the welfare state, increased inequality in our country,” is how he defined Mariano Rajoy’s governments. “I believe that ended in 2018. Now there is a Government that defends the interests of ordinary people; it is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
The session, seasoned with data, charts, and the exercise of establishing a comparison between the country’s situation in 2018 and now, even enjoyed a kind of electoral slogan. This is how Sánchez defined his work and that of his Executive in these years: “Spain has progressed. And it has done so with a clear sheet, a firm will, and a determined horizon. Beyond what some and others say, they are part of the common sense agenda that the Government shares with the country’s broad social majority.”
Macroeconomic and employment data allow Sánchez to boast. Our country leads growth in the European Union and reaches record figures in employment and Social Security affiliation. “We will close 2026, in a difficult and complex context, growing five times more than Italy, four times more than Germany, and three times more than France”; “we create more and better jobs in a complex moment, with an unemployment rate below 10%, the lowest level in 18 years”; “our economy knows how to navigate these turbulent economic cycles”; “since the pandemic, we have reduced public debt by 20 points, we have fiscal margin to respond to the effects of wars or the climate emergencies we suffer”; “we have increased spending on welfare and social benefits by 145 billion more for Health, Education, and Public Services”; “we have re-founded the national dependency system with more than 6.2 billion that will allow us to raise benefits”… are some of the messages he delivered.
