Sánchez believes that insulting Spain is 'freedom of speech' but he does not tolerate being booed

@ElentirENG ES 10·12·2023 · 18:02 0

Once again, the National Day parade has been marked by boos and whistles against Pedro Sánchez.

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A government obsessed with avoiding boos

Like other years, the boos have been repeated, and even louder, despite the measures taken by the government to keep the public away, in line with Sánchez's obsession with avoiding showing his face to the Spanish and, if you have to do so, try to avoid any protest at all costs. An attitude inappropriate for a government that calls itself democratic, but acts as if it were afraid of the people, exhibiting a clear allergy to any exposure to the public.

Some very justified boos

Certainly, there are many reasons that justify these boos. The most recent is that we have in the presidency of the government a guy who lost the elections in July and now intends to approve an amnesty contrary to the Constitution with the sole purpose of holding on to power, ceding indignant at the demands of its separatist partners, even more than it had already been doing. Furthermore, it is a government that has dedicated itself to assaulting institutions, trampling on judicial independence, allying itself with the communists, with the sympathizers of the ETA terrorist group and with the authors of the separatist coup of 2017.

Sánchez voted twice in favor of legalizing the burning of Spanish flags

While he does not tolerate being booed, Sánchez does believe that it is legitimate to insult Spain, insult and slander the Crown, insult and threaten the Armed Forces and the Police and humiliate believers. He has expressed this with his vote in response to two initiatives presented by his communist partners from Podemos. On October 23, 2018, Sánchez and his PSOE colleagues voted in favor of legalizing outrages against Spain, supporting a Podemos initiative that qualified them as "freedom of expression". This initiative also sought to legalize crimes that penalize humiliation of believers (Art. 525 of the Penal Code), insults and threats to the Armies and Security Forces and to State institutions (Art. 504) and slander and insults against the Crown and against the Royal Family (Arts. 490.3 and 491).

This positioning of Sánchz and the PSOE was repeated in June 2021, when the socialists returned to support another Podemos initiative to legalize these crimes. The text of the initiative (you can read it here) demanded the repeal of the crime of outrages against Spain, which punishes the burning of Spanish flags, stating the following: "This crime is being applied to attack freedom of speech, repressing criticism against the symbols of our country, embodied in the flag and the national anthem." The result of the vote can be seen here. The 120 PSOE deputies voted in favor, including Pedro Sánchez.

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Photo: PSOE.