Sánchez hits back at trolls: I’m not dying

Politico Europe · Feb 26, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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“I don’t suffer from any cardiovascular disease, but even if I did, there wouldn’t be any problem,” Sánchez wrote. “There are millions of people who do suffer from them and lead normal lives thanks to the public services that [right-wing forces] dismantle.” Sánchez’s post came days after a right-wing tabloid published a story alleging Sánchez is being treated for a deadly cardiovascular condition at a public hospital in Madrid. During a plenary session of the Spanish parliament on Wednesday, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, a lawmaker in the center-right People’s Party group, alluded to the article and demanded Justice Minister Félix Bolaños clarify if the prime minister “has a health problem.” In his post on X, Sánchez lamented that after spending years predicting the imminent fall of his successive governments, right-wing forces keen to usher him out of office were now “spreading hoaxes about [his] health.” The prime minister chastised the People’s Party for basing its opposition to his rule on “lies” and said the rumors were nonsense: “This government will be around for a good while longer.”