What phase will we have to wait for to include Spain in the list of dictatorships?

@ElentirENG ES 2·02·2024 · 7:01 0

When we talk about dictatorships, we usually imagine a dictator who comes to power through an act of violence.

The party of two Pedro Sánchez's ministers praises the bloody dictator Vladimir Lenin
The party of two Pedro Sánchez's ministers admits that it is inspired by a dictatorship

The moment when the demolition of democracy in Germany began

Many people still have a very clichéd idea of dictatorships and they rely on that idea to feel safe from that danger. The problem with that topical idea is that there have been horrendous dictatorships that do not fit that typology. Let us refer, without further ado, to the case of Nazism, one of the worst totalitarian regimes in the history of humanity. Hitler came to power through the ballot box and used the laws to destroy democracy itself. The enabling law of 1933, with which the German Parliament granted full powers to Hitler, was a defining moment, but Germany's dictatorial drift did not begin there.

A defining moment for democracy in that country was the decision of German President Paul von Hindenburg to govern by decree outside Parliament in the summer of 1930, abusively resorting to Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which gave him that power in emergency cases. In the following two years, Hindenburg's emergency decrees increased from 5 in 1930 to 44 in 1931 and 66 in 1932, as Parliament's legislative activity was reduced to a minimum. This authoritarian drift gave wings to the totalitarians (the Nazis and the communists) who sought to end democracy.

We are already experiencing that same moment in Spain

Like the Weimar Constitution, the Spanish Constitution of 1978 also allows the government to govern with decree-laws in cases of "extraordinary and urgent need", according to its Article 86. And what is the "extraordinary and urgent need"? At the moment of truth, that is for the government to decide. Significantly, the socialist Pedro Sánchez is the president of the government that has approved more decree-laws in 45 years in Spain, and has used this exceptional mechanism for all kinds of matters that were neither necessary nor urgent.

Sánchez's violation of judicial independence

There is a lot of talk now, rightly, that this government is violating the separation of powers by invading the powers of Justice After its unconstitutional amnesty law, which grants criminal privileges to criminals for being allies of the government and annuls without further work of the judges, yesterday Sánchez took another step and became a judge for exonerate all Catalan separatists from any accusation of terrorism, regardless of what the judges say.

For the first time in our democracy, having a certain ideological militancy will grant the government's allies total impunity and will place them above the laws, those laws that bind all other Spaniards. If that is not a way of acting typical of a dictator, then what is? Is that what can be expected from a democratic ruler, who promised to comply and enforce the Constitution, whose Article 14 affirms that no one is above the law for reasons of opinion?

The government's accomplices in this antidemocratic drift

It must be said that his attack on Justice has not been Sánchez's first attack on the separation of powers. Sánchez has violated the separation of powers every time he approved a decree-law, usurping the role of the Legislative Branch. And by doing so with hardly any response, neither from the media nor from citizens, he has encouraged sense to go one step further. The complicity of the media related to the government and its servile and sectarian voters, willing to simply accept any anti-democratic barbarity that the left does, is a way of encouraging Sánchez to continue destroying our democracy.

The steps typical of a dictator that Sánchez has already taken

What phase of this anti-democratic drift will we have to wait for to admit Spain to the list of dictatorships? Should we wait for Sánchez to order the arrest of members of the opposition for political reasons? Should we perhaps wait for him to ban certain media outlets because they disagree with the government? Will we have to wait for Sánchez to dictate to us how we should give our opinion? It is something that the left already does in Spain and other countries without any embarrassment, and the Sánchez government is already imposing fines for reasons of opinion opinion.

There is a fact that should alarm us and that is having communists in the government, having ministers who are active in a party that praises dictators like Lenin and Fidel Castro, two tyrants criminals who used their power to detain, torture and murder their political rivals, governing without free elections, without free media, without freedom of expression and banning any political party other than the communist party. Do we realize the danger of having people like this in power? Do we realize the dictatorial drift that the left has taken in Spain, or are some still atrophied thinking that deep down socialism is good and we should not distrust him?

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Photo: AFP.