Overview
- Elon Musk labeled Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez “guilty of high treason” in a post on X reacting to criticism of Sánchez’s defense of the policy.
- Sánchez had just told a progressive gathering in Barcelona that Spain “is daughter of migration” and “will not be mother of xenophobia.”
- The government frames the measure as an extraordinary regularization covering roughly half a million people, and opposition parties reject it.
- In a separate speech in Huelva, Sánchez attacked “technoligarchs” for profiting from social media and condemned AI image manipulation of girls and women.
- Musk has repeatedly targeted Sánchez before, using the slur “dirty Sánchez,” calling him a tyrant, and alleging the government was “importing voters.”