PSOE votes against demanding dictator Maduro to end repression in Venezuela

I have been denouncing that the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) has returned to the extreme left, if it ever left it.

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Today, Pedro Sánchez's party has once again demonstrated this in the Congress of Deputies, where an initiative by the Popular Party was voted on (its parliamentary dossier can be seen here) to demand an end to repression in Venezuela and to ask the Spanish government to bring dictator Nicolás Maduro before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. The four points of this initiative have been approved, with the support of the PP, Vox and UPN in all cases.

Significantly, the PSOE has only voted in favour of one of the points of the text, the third, which states the following: "Support the United Nations reports that record serious violations of human rights in Venezuela". However, in the rest of the points the PSOE has behaved as a mere defender of the Maduro dictatorship, voting together with its communist allies against these three points:

1. Issue a public statement addressed to Nicolás Maduro, demanding the immediate cessation of repression and the release of all political prisoners and arbitrarily detained persons.

2. Join the complaint filed in 2018 and contact the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and request progress in Situation Venezuela 1, and request the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC to issue an arrest warrant against Nicolás Maduro Moros and other suspects of the perpetration of crimes against humanity.

4. Submit to the Congress of Deputies, within one month, a report on the actions carried out by the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela in defense of the fundamental rights of Spanish citizens who are victims of crimes against humanity.

It should be noted that the PSOE has indeed requested an arrest warrant for Maduro, but the Sánchez government did join South Africa's accusation against Israel in the International Criminal Court, an accusation launched by a far-left government that is an ally of Hamas terrorists. It is shameful that the Sánchez government is thus attacking a democratic country that is defending itself from the most serious terrorist attack in its history, and at the same time openly supporting a dictatorship that has been violating the human rights of its own citizens for years.

The most astonishing thing is to see that the PSOE has even refused to demand that Maduro immediately cease the repression and release all political prisoners, as well as the preparation of a report on Spanish citizens who have been victims of crimes against humanity in Venezuela at the hands of that dictatorship. Once again, the PSOE shows that it is not a democratic party, a party that slanders a democratic country that is defending itself from terrorists and at the same time defends a socialist dictatorship with which it has had shady dealings.

It is important to remember that this far-left government is supported by parties such as the PNV and Junts, which receive the votes of many Basques and Catalans who, regardless of their secessionist ideas, feel a clear rejection of the Venezuelan dictatorship. Once again, separatism acts as a crutch for the far left to degrade our democracy and to support those who defend dictators such as Nicolás Maduro.

Finally, it is the height of cynicism that the extreme left and its separatist allies pretend to give us lessons in "democratic memory", even imposing their sectarian vision of the history of Spain through laws, at the same time that they support the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. The true democratic memory will be that which many Venezuelans and Spaniards make in the coming years, remembering the complicity of the extreme left and separatism with a criminal regime like that of Nicolás Maduro.

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Photo: PSOE.