The PSOE and hatred: it refuses to expel a socialist who threatened a rival with death

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A PSOE militant to Juanma Moreno: “We're going to kill you”

Last Thursday, the National Police arrested a former city councilor and member of the PSOE in Cabra (Córdoba) for threatening to kill Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, a member of the Popular Party and president of the Regional Government of Andalusia. The detainee, behaving very aggressively, approached Moreno and shouted, "We're going to kill you." The socialist activist ignored the police officers present at the scene who asked him to calm down and pushed them, resulting in his arrest for allegedly resisting arrest.

The PSOE refuses to expel that member and does not condemn his threats

Ayer se conoció la respuesta del Partido Socialista ante ese grave hecho. El PSOE de Córdoba anunció que no expulsará al militante detenido alegando que "no hay ninguna directriz o norma interna" que le obligue a hacerlo en relación a los hechos referidos. El PSOE ni siquiera ha condenado las amenazas de muerte proferidas por su militante contra Moreno Bonilla. Es una actitud impropia de un partido democrático, pero muy coherente con la historia de violencia y autoritarismo de esa organización, que todavía hoy cuelga en sus sedes retratos de su fundador, Pablo Iglesias Posse, un fanático que instigó el terrorismo contra un diputado de derechas, Antonio Maura, para después burlarse de él cuando sufrió un atentado a tiros cuando viajaba en tren con su familia, resultando herido en una pierna y un brazo.

Yesterday, the Socialist Party's response to this serious incident became known. The PSOE in Córdoba announced that it will not expel the arrested member, arguing that "there is no internal directive or rule" that obliges it to do so in relation to the events in question. The PSOE has not even condemned the death threats made by its member against Moreno Bonilla. This is an attitude unbecoming of a democratic party, but very consistent with the history of violence and authoritarianism of that organization, which still today hangs portraits of its founder, Pablo Iglesias Posse, in its headquarters, a fanatic who instigated terrorism against a right-wing deputy, Antonio Maura, and then mocked him when he was shot while traveling by train with his family, suffering injuries to his leg and arm.

This is not the first time we have seen such despicable behavior in a political party in Spain: we already saw similar things in parties like Herri Batasuna when the terrorist group ETA was threatening and murdering hundreds of Spaniards. The real novelty is that for the first time in almost half a century of democracy we are seeing this behavior in the party of the Prime Minister of Spain, which demonstrates the degree of moral degradation caused by Pedro Sánchez and his party.

The serious precedent of the attacks on Vox in Vallecas

There has only been one similar precedent: when on this day five years ago, members of the government belonging to Podemos openly justified attacks on members of Vox, after left-wing extremists attacked members of that right-wing party with stones during a rally in Vallecas, even sending MP Ángel López to the hospital.

A week after that attack, and although he said he condemned it, Sánchez accused Vox, the party that was attacked, of going to Vallecas to "start a fight," that is, he blamed the victims for the attack, something that the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, responded to with these words: "That is the argument that was used in my region by those who murdered socialist councilors, who were a nuisance and provoked them."

Less than a month ago, Sánchez announced a tool to control opinions on social media using "hate" as an excuse to demonize these channels of debate and information exchange, simply because they circulate opinions highly critical of his government. This is the same Sánchez who blamed the political rivals who were attacked for the assault, refusing to disavow the Podemos ministers who justified that violence. He is the same Sánchez whose party refuses to expel a member who threatened a political rival with death. Under his leadership and with the heirs of ETA as his coalition partners, Sánchez is demonstrating where the greatest sources of hatred in Spain today are: himself, his party, and his government.

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Photo: PSOE. Pedro Sánchez with María Jesús Montero, general secretary of the PSOE of Andalusia.