Pedro Sánchez imitates Chávez and Maduro with his impunity law: the warning of the Afiuni case

The socialist government of Pedro Sánchez continues its action to eliminate all democratic checks and balances in Spain.

PSOE votes against demanding dictator Maduro to end repression in Venezuela
Sánchez's coup against the Justice in Spain is a copy of what Chávez did in Venezuela

An attempt to prevent the judiciary from investigating socialist corruption

This time, the Socialists have presented a bill to put an end to all judicial investigations for corruption that affect Sánchez's government, his family and his party, scandals that are causing the PSOE to fall in the polls and that are bringing to light the irregular practices and lack of scruples of that party, which seems to believe itself above the law and with the right to change legislation to suit its whims, in a clear attack on the constitutional right to equality before the law.

Sanchez imitates the socialist dictatorship of Chavez and Maduro

For years, the PSOE never raised objections to the legal proceedings against the Popular Party, not even those initiated against politicians who were persistently singled out by the socialists and finally acquitted of all charges. But things change when the socialists are accused: now they change the law to grant themselves impunity and enjoy the privilege that no judge can open investigations against them. A way of understanding the law that is typical of dictatorships, and that is precisely reminiscent of what the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela has been doing, first with Hugo Chávez and now with Nicolás Maduro.

The case of Judge María Lourdes Afiuni, imprisoned and tortured in Venezuela

Just as is happening in Spain, Chávez and Maduro have harassed and ousted judges who dared to investigate their crimes or contradict them, with cases as scandalous as that of Judge María Lourdes Afiuni, against whom Hugo Chávez She ordered her arrest from a television show, but was eventually imprisoned and spent ten years in prison, suffering torture and sexual assault by officials of the Venezuelan dictatorship.

The PSOE tried to boycott the support from Spain to that judge

Significantly, the PSOE attempted to boycott support for Judge Afiuni from Spain. In fact, in 2011 the Socialist Party was the only party to vote against sending Spanish diplomats as observers to the Afiuni trial.

As we can see, the PSOE's complicity with the Venezuelan socialist dictatorship goes back a long way and is no longer limited to supporting or covering up its abuses: it now intends to copy them in Spain, taking advantage of the fact that its parliamentary allies on the far left are also accomplices and supporters of the Venezuelan dictatorship.

A case that should have served as a warning about what the PSOE wanted to do in Spain

It was more than evident that when the Spanish socialists and communists supported the Chávez and Maduro dictatorship, refusing to condemn their human rights violations and even refusing to call for an end to repression in Venezuela (as they did last December in Congress), the message they were sending to us is that if they could, they would do the same in Spain.

This impunity law announced today by the PSOE is the clearest demonstration that Sánchez and his party are following in the footsteps of Chávez and Maduro to undermine democracy and establish a socialist dictatorship, a regime in which they control the judges and no court can investigate crimes committed by the left in power. The attitude of the PSOE in the Afiuni case should have served as a warning to all Spaniards, as it made clear the threat that loomed over our democracy if the PSOE returned to power.

The pacts that continue to legitimize the PSOE while it commits these abuses

Unfortunately, some people not only ignored this warning but have also continued to negotiate with the PSOE, as the Popular Party has done, even reissuing its coalition with the socialists in Brussels once again, despite all the high-sounding statements made by the PP about the amnesty law and other abuses by the socialists against our rule of law. These pacts have served to legitimize the socialists while they commit these abuses and to guarantee that the European Commission, headed once again by Ursula von der Leyen (a member of the European People's Party who has shamelessly displayed her affinity with Sánchez) does not act against these abuses of Spanish socialism. Until when, ladies and gentlemen of the PP?

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Photo: PSOE.