The government uses RTVE to intimidate socialists who are critical of Pedro Sánchez

The dictatorial attitudes that Pedro Sánchez is adopting are not only directed against his political rivals, as we saw yesterday in Congress.

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Pedro Sánchez has turned the PSOE into his own personal sect

It's been a while since Sánchez turned his party, the PSOE, into a sect dedicated to the cult of his person. He has ended up purging any critical voice that might question his leadership. The most recent example was yesterday with the resignation of Juan Lobato, general secretary of the PSOE in Madrid, after having brought before a notary a WhatsApp conversation in which he was asked by the government to participate in the illegal leak of data from the partner of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the president of the Community of Madrid, of the Popular Party.

This fact shows to what extent Spanish socialism has degenerated into an organisation in which those who do not want to participate in the most vile actions are ostracised. That is, if we trust Lobato's version, of course, because the alternative is that they set a trap for him to bear all the responsibility for that leak and his decision to take those messages to a notary has exposed both the government and the PSOE, demonstrating to what extent the level of distrust reaches among the party's own cadres.

Corruption scandals have increased internal criticism

The PSOE has been having internal problems for some time now. The corruption cases affecting the government and the party have increased the number of voices already thinking about Sánchez's replacement. These voices were reflected in May in an editorial in the socialist newspaper El País, one of the media closest to and most loyal to the government. This editorial openly spoke of the "succession debate" in the PSOE and was critical of Sánchez for his openly intolerant attitude towards any internal disagreement: "If he had the perception that someone on his team was going it alone, his clear determination has been to cut off any aspirations at the root."

The government uses RTVE to intimidate dissident socialists

Next weekend, the PSOE will hold its federal congress in Seville and Sánchez wants it to serve as a show of support at a time when his corruption scandals (his wife and brother have already been charged) are weighing down the party in the polls. In the midst of this panorama, yesterday one of the official channels of Spanish National Television, a communication group paid for by all taxpayers and used by the government as its own propaganda organ, published this controversial message at 9:15 p.m. CET:

"Socialist sources believe that Lobato's death could be a warning to the rest of the federations, which are beginning their leadership renewal after the federal congress that the PSOE is holding this weekend", the message states. Many Twitter users have interpreted this message as what it seems: an attempt to intimidate socialists who are critical of SánchezBehaviour typical of a mafia, and not of a party that calls itself democratic.

The monster they have helped create turns against them

It must be said that the dissidents of the PSOE, if there are any left, are reaping what they have sown. For years they have continued to support a party whose top leader is a narcissist with autocratic habits, who does not tolerate dissent among his rivals or among his supporters, a left-wing extremist who seems to confuse Spain with North Korea. They did not think it was wrong when these anti-democratic attitudes were directed against the political opposition, and now the monster they have helped to create is turning against them.

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Photo: PSOE.