Amnesty, the greatest act of corruption in the entire history of democracy in Spain

One of the most widespread evils in democratic countries is so-called political corruption, but many seem to be unaware of what it consists of.

Amnesty law in Spain: the list of deputies who have supported this colossal act of corruption
Statement of the General Council of the Judiciary of Spain against the amnesty: it is “a serious violation of fundamental rights”

Political corruption could be defined as the abuse of power granted by the people to obtain personal or partisan benefits through illicit means. In this sense, the worst expression of political corruption is not the mere act of stealing, even large amounts of it, in violation of criminal laws. Rather, the worst political corruption is that in which the abuse of power is dedicated to eroding and destroying the very foundations of democracy, with the aim of providing personal benefit to those who hold political power.

In Spain, we have seen many cases of corrupt politicians who have abused their positions to enrich themselves illegally. But there is a corruption more terrible than that, a corruption that perverts the very foundations of our coexistence and corrodes civic virtues.

A year ago, the Spanish left perpetrated the worst act of political corruption in the history of our democracy by approving an amnesty law for people convicted of serious crimes, a measure whose only real justification, aside from the lies used by the government to disguise its real motivations, is that Pedro Sánchez needed the votes of separatist parties that perpetrated a coup against the Constitution in Catalonia in October 2017. A coup in which crimes of sedition, embezzlement of public funds and terrorism were committed, among others.

In Article 62, the Spanish Constitution expressly prohibits general pardons, which is why no amnesty had been announced in Spain in 46 years, as it is clearly unconstitutional. In fact, Pedro Sánchez and several of his ministers said that the amnesty was illegal and unconstitutional, before it became the price set by the separatists to guarantee their support for Sánchez's reelection.

Yesterday, according to the pro-government radio station Cadena SER, the Socialist-controlled Constitutional Court left a proposal ready for a vote today to legitimize this amnesty, a proposal that will foreseeably be approved today with the support of the majority formed by the Socialist judges. A new act of political corruption for which those responsible should one day be tried, since they are allowing the PSOE to destroy our rule of law and violate the Constitution with impunity, with no other argument than the fact of that party controls the aforementioned court.

Both the colossal act of corruption that is the amnesty itself, and the one that the Socialist majority of the Constitutional Court intends to commit by blessing this unconstitutional measure, are much worse than the corruption scandals we have been seeing lately, and which include ingredients worthy of a crime novel. What the left is doing with all this is destroying our democracy and breaking equality before the law, granting an intolerable criminal privilege to government allies for the simple fact that Sánchez needs the support of these criminals. The Socialist Party was already a tumor for Spain and now it has metastasized, threatening the very existence of our regime of liberties.

The grave wound created by this huge corruption scandal, carried out in the open and with the utter shamelessness of those who believe that power makes them right, cannot be healed with a mere change of government. The damage done to our democracy and to the coexistence between Spaniards is too grave to settle this matter like this. Each and every one of those involved in this act of corruption must be brought to justice and must pay for what they have done, and we will only be able to say that we have recovered our democracy when the full weight of justice has fallen on the last of them.

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Photo: PSOE.