MADRID, Spain – The Central Electoral Board has agreed to open sanctioning proceedings against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez over his statements at the press conference following the Cabinet meeting on 6 October, the same day the election call was made official. At the appearance, denounced by the PP and Se Acabó La Fiesta, Sánchez used the announcement of new housing decrees to ask for a more resounding, more forceful majority at the polls and to criticise the opposition, with the arbitration body considering that his words violate the duty of neutrality during the electoral period and demanding that Moncloa immediately remove these statements from its website and official channels.
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This is the fifth time the electoral arbiter has opened sanctioning proceedings against Pedro Sánchez for violating the duty of neutrality in institutional acts or appearances from Moncloa, following proceedings opened in 2019, 2023, 2024 and late 2025. In its resolution, the Electoral Board concludes that the head of the executive did not limit himself to explaining the content of the housing measures approved but incurred an electoralist tone, with the body considering that the allusions to the government’s economic achievements, the balance of laws passed against the management of previous terms and the explicit criticism of formations such as the PP and Vox exceed mere public service information and cross the legal limits set for the electoral period.
In addition to the proceedings, which could lead to fines of between 300 and 3,000 euros when the instruction of the procedure concludes, the arbitration body urges the Presidency of the Government to refrain from repeating this type of conduct in official acts during the campaign and asks it to immediately delete the partisan expressions from the Moncloa website and its institutional profiles. The resolution, on the other hand, dismisses the arguments with which Se Acabó La Fiesta sought to halt the approval of the housing decree-laws and their parliamentary ratification, recalling that the calling of elections does not paralyse the ordinary work of the executive nor the functioning of the chambers, with the PP having denounced Sánchez for considering that he had violated the law by using Moncloa to give a PSOE rally.
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The Electoral Board does not, however, include in the proceedings the institutional statement of the previous day, 5 October, denounced by Santiago Abascal’s party, when Sánchez announced the dissolution of the Cortes and the calling of early elections in an institutional statement from Moncloa, in which he urged choosing between the ultra-right wave and social justice, as the decree was not yet in force and the electoral period had not begun nor had the restrictions been activated.
