The antidemocratic flight forward of a socialist government implicated in a crime

The 41st federal congress of the PSOE could not have started in a worse way after Juan Lobato's statement before the judge today.

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Moncloa participated in a crime punishable by up to four years in prison

The former general secretary of the PSOE in Madrid has given the judge the transcript of the WhatsApp messages that he filed with a notary. A transcript that shows that Moncloa, the seat of the presidency of the government, participated in the crime for which the State Attorney General has already been indicted for a month and a half. This is a crime of disclosure of secrets by an authority or public official, defined in Article 417 of the Penal Code and which is punishable by imprisonment of up to 4 years.

The evidence presented to the judge, which has already been published by several media outlets, indicates that Moncloa sent Lobato the secret documents 37 minutes before they were published by the media, a fact that refutes the version of the government and the PSOE according to which the documentation was in the possession of the socialists after having been published in several media outlets. It was the other way around: it was the government that leaked it.

This fact also indicates why Lobato wanted to deposit these messages with a notary: so that he could not be accused of this crime, placing all the responsibility on him. In light of these messages, the resignation of the former general secretary of the PSOE in Madrid this week, following pressure from the socialist leadership, is especially scandalous: they have forced a socialist official to resign because he kept evidence of a crime in which the government is directly involved.

A government that acts like a mafia

All of this is extremely serious. Spain is in the hands of a government that has participated in the commission of a crime as part of a campaign against a political rival, specifically against Isabel Díaz Ayuso, whom they intended to oust by illegally revealing classified information about her boyfriend. We have a government that acts like a mafia, committing crimes and illegally using secret information in its possession to attack the opposition. Governments in other countries have fallen for much less than this.

However, in Spain, Sanchez and his government have shown that they have not the slightest shred of shame. They have systematically resorted to lies and hoaxes to hold on to power at any price, even causing the absolute discredit of the institutions and a terrible loss of confidence of the Spanish people in their government. How can we trust those who run our country if they are caught committing crimes without anyone resigning for it?

The government tries to cover up its scandals by slandering the opposition

There is something worse than the deterioration of our institutions. This government is a threat to democracy. This case makes it clear that Spain is led by a cabinet whose attitude is dangerously reminiscent of the leadership of a dictatorship. Its ways of attacking the opposition, in an increasingly desperate attempt to cover up the scandals affecting the government, are also reminiscent of an authoritarian regime.

This very week Sanchez copied a formula from Nicolás Maduro against the Venezuelan opposition to accuse Abascal of being a "traitor to the Homeland" for the mere fact of exercising his right and duty to criticize the government's actions. Today, Minister María Jesús Montero called Feijóo a "coup plotter", a slander also used by the Venezuelan dictator against the democratic opposition.

A socialist minister encourages to "ending this right"

Likewise, this afternoon and at the start of the 41st federal congress of the PSOE, the Minister of Housing, the socialist Isabel Rodríguez García, has encouraged "ending this right", a statement that is chilling coming from a leader of a party that on July 13, 1936 was involved in the murder of an opposition leader, José Calvo Sotelo, who was kidnapped and murdered in a shot in the back of the head by socialist militants, a state crime that ended up triggering the Spanish Civil War a few days later.

An anti-democratic flight forward

All this shows that instead of resigning, the Sánchez government is on a headlong flight in which it will have no qualms about seriously damaging our democracy, even more than it has done so far. The socialists will do the same thing they have been doing so far, but to a greater extent: criminalize the political opposition and use all the resources of the State against it, just as the socialist regime in Venezuela does. Faced with this situation, we Spaniards cannot remain impassive. Our democracy is in danger and we have a moral duty to defend it.

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Photo: PSOE.