Will the next step be to not call elections because they are certain they will lose?

The coalition government of socialists and communists led by Pedro Sánchez continues its journey towards an authoritarian regime.

The suspicious message from socialist Minister Óscar Puente about the upcoming elections
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Yesterday we witnessed a new chapter that clearly demonstrates the undermining of the Congress of Deputies by the extreme left, a category into which the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) has fully fallen with its authoritarian drift. The Congress's governing board, controlled by the PSOE and its communist partners in Sumar, prevented Congress from voting on two motions calling for early elections, arguing that this is a prerogative of the government. A purely absurd argument, because the mere fact that the government has a certain power does not mean that Congress cannot ask for something, even if the government then ignores it, as has been the norm since Sánchez came to power.

Under the presidency of the socialist Francina Armengol, the left is imposing a sectarian and authoritarian steamroller in Congress, vetoing all initiatives it dislikes and blocking measures already approved but opposed by the government. This situation is being imposed by two parties that together hold 152 seats, well below the 176 needed for a majority. Therefore, what we are witnessing is abhorrent from a democratic point of view: a minority has decided to block the normal functioning of the lower house of the Spanish Parliament, abusing its power to turn Congress into a mere figurehead.

What we are seeing is a new episode in the Sánchez government's journey towards a dictatorship, a journey that has already progressed through stages such as the systematic attacks from the government on the Judiciary, the free media and the parliamentary opposition; the colonization of institutions by the socialists, adopting forms typical of a one-party regime; the constant violation of the Constitution, rendered meaningless by a government that also controls the Constitutional Court; And of course, the constant abuses of power by Sánchez, an apprentice autocrat who is already, to this day, the ruler who has issued the most decrees in half a century of democracy in Spain, in a boundless desire to usurp the powers of the Legislative Branch.

Seeing all this, it's not hard to imagine the next step. Will the next step be to not call elections because they're certain they'll lose? Or perhaps to rig them? Sánchez already has experience with the latter. Let's remember that in October 2016 he caused a scandal in his own party due to electoral fraud in the primary elections to choose a new general secretary for the PSOE. Sánchez has already shown that he has no scruples and believes that anything goes to stay in power. Now the only question is how far he will go in his aim to destroy democratic institutions and continue governing like a despot.

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Photo: Efe.