The censorship that the extreme left of Podemos wants to impose on the Congress

@ElentirENG ES 8·15·2023 · 7:07 0

The totalitarian nature of the extreme left parties is something that is not only on display with their support for some communist dictatorships.

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A party founded by communists

Podemos, the far-left party created in 2014 by veterans of the communist ranks such as Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Íñigo Errejón and Juan Carlos Monedero, will only have five deputies in Congress in the new legislature that emerged from the general elections on July 23, but wants to take advantage of Pedro Sánchez's weakness to impose Dacronian measures, clearly undemocratic and openly incompatible with Article 20 of the Spanish Constitution, which protects the right to freedom of expression and information, and with the Article 14, which prohibits all discrimination based on opinion.

Lilith Verstrynge, organization secretary of the far-left party and Podemos deputy for the province of Barcelona, exposed yesterday some of the demands of her organization for the election of the new presidency of Congress. One of the points states the following: "Stop hate speech against feminists, migrants or the LGTBI collective, as well as denial of gender violence or climate change." It is assumed that this requirement should be imposed by the new presidency on all deputies.

Podemos considers 'hate' anything that opposes its ideological dogmas

The fact is that, like the rest of the left-wing, Podemos has been classifying as "hate" any discourse that is not to its liking: criticism of abortion and gender ideology, rejection of alarmism climate change or the defense of regulated and limited immigration, for example. So, basically, what the far-left party wants is for the presidency to censor rival legislators so that they don't say anything that is contrary to the ideological approaches of that communist party. If this requirement were applied, Congress would no longer be a democratic Parliament, since opposition representatives would not be able to exercise their freedom of expression.

The far-left party also wants to censor journalists

The far-left party's demands for censorship are not limited to deputies: Podemos also wants to censor journalists. Another of the points made by Verstrynge states: "Do not grant press accreditation to alleged media outlets that spread lies and hate speech." It seems that Podemos wants to establish a ministry of truth, in the style of George Orwell's novel "1984", to determine which media are lying and which are not.

Regarding "hate speech", let's remember that in the last legislature Podemos ministers justified attacks against representatives of Vox, a rival party, a justification of the violence from the government and against the political opposition that had never occurred in the decades that we have been democracy in Spain. It is the height of cynicism that this party is the one that now wants to label as "hate" the speeches that it does not like. If anyone has made notable efforts to foment hatred in Spain, it has been precisely Podemos.

Two years ago it asked to veto the media that it considers to be 'extreme right'

The intentions of the far-left party with this demand to censor certain media outlets were exposed two years ago, when Podemos and other far-left parties asked to veto media outlets they consider to be "extreme right", or to put it another way: they demanded that a constitutional right be violated to punishing certain media outlets for their editorial line, something typical of totalitarianism.

Certainly, it was foreseeable to find these anti-democratic attitudes in parties that support dictatorships such as Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, and that do not hide their desire to degrade Spanish democracy to turn it into a replica of those regimes that violate the human rights. What is worth asking is: will the human rights NGOs and journalists' associations denounce this attempt to impose a new censorship? Or will they look the other way because the possible censors are right-wing media, and that is not do certain left-wing activists who presume to be Democrats care so much?

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Photo: Europa Press. The deputies of Podemos Lilith Verstrynge and Ione Belarra.