“We will twist the hand of people who think they are completely untouchable,” Sánchez told the crowd. “Billionaires with unlimited greed. Those who speculate with people’s houses,” he said.
He named the oligarchs “who want to get richer by using our democracy and the mental health of our youth.”
“When we continue to reach the government, we do not serve the elite – we put them in their place,” Sánchez said.
He said the right wing is “organizing itself internationally” but emphasized that their numbers betray weakness rather than strength. “They are shouting not because they are winning but because they know their time is about to end,” he said.
Some 6,000 elected left-wing leaders, policy analysts and activists attended the event in Barcelona. Organizers said the summit will conclude with a joint declaration outlining coordinated action on shared priorities including inequality, climate and digital governance.
The collection drew an unusually broad cast of heads of state and government, including Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African Cyril Ramaphosa and Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
