The city council of Albacete declared the head of government, Pedro Sánchez, persona non grata, and requested his resignation after approving a motion in the municipal plenary session presented by the non-attached councillor, José Ramón Conesa. It was supported by municipal groups such as Vox and PP, and received votes against it from PSOE and Unidas Podemos. Opposition parties described the proposal as “an attack on democratic institutions and an exercise in cheap propaganda.”
Coincidentally, Kunisa was expelled from the Vox Party in 2024 due to her abstention from voting on the budgets presented by the People’s Party that year. He became a non-attached councilor and now his initiative has the support of both the “populists” ruling the city council and his former party colleagues. Last September, he said in a public municipal session that the civil war “was won by the nationalists and the commander-in-chief was at their head.”
Now, in defending his proposal, this chancellor said that Spain “has become the most corrupt country in history during these seven years” and that it has been forged through “unnatural agreements” supported by “all those who want to destroy Spain, like the heirs of ETA, now called Beldo, or the left-wing separatists.” The unattached advisor highlighted that Sánchez “has brought charges against all his closest entourage” and that he is “increasingly besieged by justice.”
For her part, the mayor of Fox, Lorena Gonzalez, justified her support for the proposal presented by her former co-worker on the basis of “numerous cases of corruption due to the alliance with the traitors of Spain and making lies and deception their main political banner.”
From the popular group, which received the largest number of votes in the plenary session, they decided to vote for it after they claimed that Pedro Sánchez “weakened democracy and destroyed the division of powers,” in addition to pursuing “irregular and interventionist policies that have led us to a disastrous economic situation,” according to Mayor Rosa González de la Aleja, who explained that despite the decision to support the proposal, “Sánchez must be defeated in the elections.” Opinion polls.
On the other hand, the leader of the Socialist Municipal Group, José González, criticized the Vox Party for joining a proposal submitted by an unattached councilor who “has not yet recognized it” after his departure from the party. He has championed some central government initiatives, such as increasing pensions or minimum wages among professions.
Socialist Socialist Party: The goal is to “blow up the foundations of democracy”
The mayor explained that “the personality of the prime minister is a personality that includes everyone in Spain,” and insisted that the goal of the proposal “is to undermine the rules of democracy and create a culture of hatred.”
Finally, Unidas Podemos spokesman Lanos Navarro noted that Chancellor Conesa “was involved in an embarrassing incident of Francoist glorification in September” and explained that Sánchez came to the presidency “managing to unite the majority of voters” in a legitimate democratic exercise.
The left-wing party showed its “total rejection of any approach by those who glorify dictatorships” and criticized the Vox and BP parties’ support for the initiative, which it saw as an attempt to achieve “media relevance through institutional insult.” In this way, the proposal received a total of 16 votes in favor and 9 votes against. Declaring a Spanish citizen persona non grata has no legal ramifications, other than symbolic ramifications.
The Constitutional Court itself believes that the aforementioned disavowal does not affect the honor of the people, although it acknowledged in its jurisprudence that assigning qualifications to its managers may not be among the tasks of the city council.