2026-04-19T09:27:22-04:00 / 福克斯新闻
西班牙记者称桑切斯与特朗普对峙是“纯粹的选举造势”，意在转移对其家族调查的注意力
作者：索利·布西丹 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年4月19日美国东部时间上午9:27
西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯在世界政府峰会承诺整治社交媒体
西班牙首相表示，西班牙将对社交媒体平台高管提起刑事诉讼、禁止16岁以下儿童使用社交媒体、对各类平台展开调查，并组建欧洲联盟以推行更严格的社交媒体监管规定。（图片来源：路透社）
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西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯一直试图将自己定位为对抗唐纳德·特朗普总统的欧洲制衡力量，但他的动机遭到了批评者的质疑。
桑切斯本周末将在巴塞罗那主办一场世界各地左翼领导人会议，他拒绝增加西班牙的北约军费开支，并在多个关键政策问题上与特朗普政府对立。
就在最近，这位西班牙政客在针对伊朗政权的美以军事行动上采取了强硬立场，禁止美国使用其在西班牙的军事基地为飞机加油或为军事行动做准备。他谴责这场行动非法，却对伊朗政权杀害数千名抗议者以及加快研发弹道导弹、获取武器级高浓缩铀的行为保持沉默。
北约秘书长暗示盟友可能在霍尔木兹海峡采取行动，警告对美国存在“不健康的依赖”
唐纳德·特朗普总统首届任期内与西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯、土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安在比利时布鲁塞尔北约峰会期间的合影。（弗朗索瓦·勒努瓦/路透社）
据美联社报道，在伊朗战争爆发几天后，桑切斯表示：“我们不会因为害怕某人的报复，就参与到对世界有害、违背我们价值观和利益的事情中。”他还打出了“反对战争”的口号。
周六，特朗普在Truth Social的帖子中抨击了桑切斯的政策，他问道：“有人注意到西班牙的处境有多糟糕吗？尽管他们几乎没有为北约和军事防务做出什么贡献，但他们的财政数据绝对糟糕透顶。看着真令人难过！！！”
今年3月，特朗普表示他已要求财政部长斯科特·贝森特“切断与西班牙的所有往来”。
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批评者指责，早已以强烈反以色列立场闻名的桑切斯，近期公开发言增多是为了转移外界对一系列涉及家人的腐败丑闻的注意力，而他本人及其支持者对此予以否认。
西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯2024年5月22日在马德里宣布西班牙将承认巴勒斯坦国时发表演讲。（托马斯·科克斯/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社）
保守派西班牙记者、《右翼日报》和UHN Plus的所有者哈维尔·内格雷对福克斯新闻数字频道表示：“佩德罗·桑切斯首相对抗唐纳德·特朗普总统的立场既不是即兴发挥，也不是基于信念。这纯粹是选举造势。他意识到，通过对抗世界上最有权势的总统，让特朗普谈论自己，他能达到两个目的：首先，他能在媒体上把自己塑造成对抗新右翼的全球左翼和全球主义的领军人物。”
内格雷表示，桑切斯的立场还“转移了人们对腐败丑闻的注意力，这些丑闻导致对他妻子和兄弟的调查，以及他身边一些人被监禁”。
周一，马德里一名法官正式指控桑切斯的妻子贝戈尼亚·戈麦斯犯有腐败罪，这给这位首相引发了一场政治风暴，而他此前已因涉及兄弟的另一桩腐败案而陷入困境。
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西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯与妻子贝戈尼亚·戈麦斯2026年4月13日在中国北京出席一场演讲。（安德烈斯·马丁内斯·卡雷斯/ pooled via 路透社）
戈麦斯长达39页的起诉书是基于一项为期两年的调查，指控她犯有挪用公款、在马德里康普顿斯大学任职期间利用影响力谋私、商业交易腐败以及挪用公款以谋取个人私利等罪名。她否认了所有指控，而她的丈夫则称这些指控是右翼政党企图破坏他的联合政府。
就在戈麦斯遭到指控的同时，这对夫妇上周正在中国进行国事访问。据美联社报道，桑切斯当时表示：“我发现很难找到除中国之外的其他对话者，能够解决伊朗和霍尔木兹海峡的局势。”
对戈麦斯的指控是由反腐败组织“干净之手”提起的。
首相的家族丑闻还涉及他的兄弟戴维·桑切斯，他因2017年在西班牙社会党总书记一职就任后不久，接受了某地区政府的定制工作而卷入另一桩利用影响力谋私的丑闻。
据报道，2018年至2024年间，桑切斯政府批准向伊朗出口价值超过600万欧元（合720万美元）的两用技术设备。尽管数额不大，但批评者称此举违反了联合国批准的对伊朗制裁和禁运措施。西班牙主要反对党政客圣地亚哥·阿瓦斯卡尔在西班牙国会上谴责桑切斯，指控他向伊朗出售引爆装置和炸药。
2024年9月抗议以色列的西班牙民众。（马科斯·德尔马佐/ LightRocket via 盖蒂图片社）
在这些指控之后，以色列法律中心Shurat Hadin上周五向海牙国际刑事法院提起诉讼，指控西班牙首相协助伊朗政权，在2024年和2025年转移价值约150万美元的爆炸物相关技术，尽管该政权因支持恐怖主义而遭到国际制裁。
[北约大国对霍尔木兹海峡任务犹豫不决，特朗普警告联盟面临风险]
据伊朗控制的新闻电视台Press TV的画面被中东媒体研究机构（MEMRI）获取的消息显示，今年3月，伊朗政权据称在一枚针对以色列的导弹上贴了一张感谢便条，上面印有西班牙首相桑切斯的照片。
这位西班牙领导人还因反以色列立场以及在巴勒斯坦恐怖组织哈马斯2023年发动犹太国家历史上最严重的袭击、造成1195人死亡、251名本国和外国公民被绑架后，对加沙战争的态度而遭到批评。
桑切斯多次称以色列是种族灭绝国家，降级了西班牙与耶路撒冷的外交关系，实施了全面的武器禁运和对以色列的制裁，不顾广泛反对承认了巴勒斯坦国，并且与比利时一起，因在冲突爆发以来对加沙战争“明确而大胆的立场”而获得哈马斯的赞扬。
西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯2024年3月21日抵达布鲁塞尔参加欧盟峰会。
尽管在左翼群体中仍受欢迎，但这位西班牙政客的支持率在过去几个月里持续下滑。根据YouGov3月的一项民调，61%的西班牙人对他们的首相持负面看法，这是他2018年就职以来的最低支持率。
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西班牙当局告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“首相因日程冲突不会接受新的采访”，有关首相立场的信息“可以在他过去几天的众多公开声明中找到”。
索利·布西丹是为福克斯新闻数字频道报道拉丁美洲的国际记者。他此前曾为多家美国和国际媒体报道国际事务、战争、金融和旅游。他目前驻巴西。
Trump criticizes Spain amid Iran, NATO rift as PM Sanchez faces questions over political motives
2026-04-19T09:27:22-04:00 / Fox News
Spanish journalist says Sanchez’s confrontation with Trump is ‘purely electoral marketing’ to divert from family probes
By Solly Boussidan Fox News
Published April 19, 2026 9:27am EDT
Spain’s Pedro Sanchez vows crackdown on social media at World Government Summit
The Spanish prime minister says Spain criminally target platform executives, ban social media for children under 16, pursue probes of various platforms, as well as build a European coalition to enforce tougher social media rules. (Credit: Reuters)
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Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of Spain has tried to position himself as the European counterweight to President Donald Trump, but his motives are being questioned by critics.
Sanchez, who is hosting a conference of leftist leaders from around the world in Barcelona this weekend, has rejected increasing Madrid’s NATO spending while positioning Spain against the Trump administration on several key policy issues.
More recently, the Spanish politician has taken a belligerent stand against the U.S. and Israeli military campaign against the Iranian regime, forbidding the U.S. from using its military bases in Spain to refuel aircraft or prepare for military action. He has decried the campaign as illegal while staying quiet on the regime’s murder of thousands of protesters and its increased drive to produce ballistic missiles and acquire nuclear weapons-grade enriched uranium.
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President Donald Trump during his first term with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a NATO summit meeting in Brussels, Belgium.(Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
A few days after the war began with Iran, Sanchez said, “We are not going to be complicit in something that is bad for the world and is also contrary to our values and interests, just out of fear of reprisals from someone,” Sánchez said, using the slogan “No to the war,” the Associated Press reported.
On Saturday, Trump took aim at Sanchez’s policies in a Truth Social post, asking: “Has anybody looked at how badly the country of Spain is doing. Their financial numbers, despite contributing almost nothing to NATO and their military defense, are absolutely horrendous. Sad to watch!!!”
In March, Trump said he had asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “to cut off all dealings with Spain.”
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Critics charge that Sanchez, already well known for his fervently anti-Israel views, has increased his public pronouncements to take pressure off him due to a series of corruption scandals involving family members, something he and his supporters have denied.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez delivers a speech to announce that Spain will recognize a Palestinian state in Madrid on May 22, 2024.(Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images)
Javier Negre, a conservative Spanish journalist and owner of La Derecha Diario and UHN Plus, told Fox News Digital. “The stance of President Pedro Sánchez against President Donald Trump is neither improvised nor based on convictions. It is purely electoral marketing. He has realized that by confronting the most powerful president in the world and getting Trump to speak about him, he achieves two things: first, he positions himself in the media as the leading figure of the global left and globalism against the new right.”
Negre said Sánchez’s position also “diverts attention from the corruption scandals that have led to investigations involving his wife and his brother and to the imprisonment of people close to him
A Madrid judge formally charged Sanchez’s wife, Begona Gomez, with corruption Monday, creating a political storm for the PM, who’s already embattled due to another corruption case involving his brother.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and his wife Begona Gomez attend a speech in Beijing, China, 13 April, 2026.(Andres Martinez Casares/Pool via Reuters)
Gómez’s 39-page indictment follows a two-year investigation charging her with embezzlement, influence peddling in her position at Madrid’s Complutense University, corruption in business dealings and misappropriation of funds to advance her personal interests. She has denied all charges while her husband says the allegations are an attempt by right-wing parties to undermine his coalition.
The charges came as the couple was on a state visit to China last week, during which Sanchez said, “I find it very difficult to find other interlocutors, beyond China, who can resolve this situation in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz,” the Associated Press reported.
The complaint against Gomez was brought forward by anti-corruption group Manos Limpias.
The prime minister’s family scandals also encompass his brother, David Sanchez, who was implicated in a separate influence-peddling scandal for accepting a bespoke job with a regional government in 2017, right after the Spanish leader became the secretary-general of Spain’s Socialist Workers Party (PSOE).
From 2018 to 2024, Sanchez’s government reportedly authorized exports of over €6 million ($7.2 million) in dual technology equipment to Iran. While not a significant sum, the move, critics say, would contravene U.N.-approved sanctions and embargoes against Iran. Leading opposition Spanish politician Santiago Abascal denounced Sanchez in Spain’s Congress, accusing him of selling detonators and explosives to Iran.
Spaniards protesting against Israel in September 2024.(Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Following the accusations, Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court in the Hague against the Spanish PM on Friday, claiming Spain assisted the ayatollah’s regime by transferring tech related to explosives at the tune of around $1.5 million in 2024 and 2025 despite international sanctions against the regime for the support of terrorism.
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In March, Iran’s regime reportedly plastered a thank-you note with a picture of Spain’s Sanchez to a missile fired against Israel, according to footage from Iran-controlled Press TV obtained by the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI.)
The Spanish leader has also faced criticism for his anti-Israel views and its war in Gaza after the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas carried out the worst attack in the history of the Jewish state, killing 1,195 people and kidnapping 251 nationals and foreigners in 2023.
Sanchez has repeatedly called Israel a genocidal state, downgraded Spain’s diplomatic relations with Jerusalem, imposed a total arms embargo and sanctions on the Jewish state, recognized a Palestinian state, despite wide opposition, and along with Belgium, has received praise from Hamas due to his “clear and bold stance regarding the Gaza war” since the onset of the conflict.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives for an EU Summit in Brussels, March 21, 2024.
While still popular among the left, the Spanish politician has seen a steady decline in his popularity over the past few months, with 61% of Spaniards holding an unfavorable view of their prime minister, according to a YouGov poll from March — his lowest approval ratings since assuming office in 2018.
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Fox News Digital reached out to La Moncloa (the Spanish prime minister’s office) and to Spain’s foreign minister with a request for an interview or official comment regarding Sanchez’s diplomatic positions relating to the wars in the Middle East, the alleged sales of technology to Iran, the use by American forces of bases built under NATO in Spanish territory, and relations with the White House.
Spanish authorities told Fox News Digital, “the prime minister was not giving new interviews due to conflicts in his schedule” and that information regarding the prime minister’s positions “could be found in his many public declarations over the past few days.”
Solly Boussidan is an international journalist covering Latin America for Fox News Digital. He has previously covered international affairs, war, finance and travel for several U.S. and international outlets. He is currently based in Brazil.
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