xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks with media near the scene of a train crash on October 28, 2026, near Los Yebenes, Spain [Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Images]By Virginia PietromarchiPublished On 30 Oct 202630 Oct 2026A few minutes past 9am on Wednesday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez posted a message on X declaring there were “lots of reasons to be optimistic about this country”.