Pedro Sánchez portrays his government by formulating a definition of Francoism
The coalition government formed by socialists and communists has already begun its plan to cover up its political corruption scandals.
He uses public funds to cover up his corruption scandals
Yesterday, Pedro Sánchez was the main protagonist of the first of the hundred official events he has scheduled to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco. A blatant attempt to cover up the corruption cases affecting his wife, his brother, his party and his government, resorting to his favorite wildcard - Franco - to distract attention when things go wrong.
Paradoxically, this first official act was a clear example of political corruption, specifically the use of public resources for partisan purposes, since Sánchez turned it into a PSOE rally, with criticism of what he described as the "far-right international". No ruler has the right to use an official act for partisan purposes, but Sánchez has been doing so systematically. He has even been fined by the Supreme Court for doing that, but he continues to do it, showing that he believes himself to be above the law.
While we wait for the political opposition and civil society to take this new case of embezzlement of public funds to court (a crime that Sánchez's own government downplayed to benefit its separatist allies in exchange for their support, in yet another example of political corruption), there are two things I would like to comment on about the socialist rally organized yesterday by the government with everyone's money.
Sánchez portrays his government by formulating a definition of Francoism
The first thing is that, in his speech, Sánchez stated that "in 1970, Spain was governed by an authoritarian and repressive minority that used fear and power to impose its interests and values on the rest of society". Sanchez intended to define Francoism in 1970 and ended up painting a portrait of his government in 2025, since that is precisely what we have in power in Spain right now: an authoritarian and repressive minority (remember that the government ordered a heavy police charge in 2023 against a peaceful demonstration in front of the national headquarters of the PSOE) and that uses fear and power to impose its interests and values on the rest of society.
Socialism in Spain: indoctrination, authoritarianism and attacks on fundamental rights
For many years, the socialists have been using all possible means in Spain to impose their hateful ideology on all Spaniards, even using schools, through indoctrination practices that are typical of a dictatorship, attacking the constitutional right to freedom of education, an attack that was responded to by massive protests throughout Spain.
Sánchez's authoritarian and repressive attitude became evident when he locked all Spaniards in our homes, violating the Constitution during the 2020 pandemic, as the Constitutional Court made clear in three rulings in which it pointed out that Sánchez's government violated fundamental rights such as the right of movement and the right of assembly, resorting to a legal mechanism, the state of alarm, which did not allow it to do that. This had not happened in Spain precisely since the Franco dictatorship.
Sánchez is an example of the risk we have of ending up in a dictatorship
Secondly, Sánchez stated that "if history teaches us anything, it is that freedom is never permanently won", but that "it is something that can be lost." Regarding the dictatorship, the socialist leader added: "Therefore, it can happen again." I must confess that I fully agree with this warning. In fact, the Sánchez government is the clearest example of the extent to which Spain can end up losing its rule of law and becoming an authoritarian regime, with a government that is dedicated to attacking judicial independence and critical media, in an attempt to intimidate those who investigate socialist corruption cases.
A government that is attacking the very foundations of democracy
The case of the amnesty granted by Sánchez to his separatist allies in exchange for their support is an example of the extent to which this government is attacking the very foundations of democracy, which include equality before the law and the separation of powers. An attack perpetrated to grant impunity to the government and its partners, in a way of exercising power that is typical of those seeking to establish a dictatorship. We must not forget that we already have a precedent in another Hispanic country: in Venezuela, the socialists turned a democracy into a dictatorship with steps very similar to those that Sánchez has been taking in Spain, especially his attack on judicial independence, which is a copy of what Hugo Chávez did.
I would like to remind you that 194 institutions denounced this unconstitutional amnesty law, including 11 regional governments, 26 entities in the judicial field - among them the Supreme Court, the 17 High Courts of Justice and the 4 largest associations of judges -, all associations of prosecutors, 51 entities of lawyers, attorneys and solicitors, 28 associations of civil servants, 39 business, professional and commercial entities and 22 media outlets. No law in Spain has been so widely rejected in all the years we have had democracy. It is the height of cynicism that the same government that perpetrated that law now comes to present itself as the champion of our democracy.
It should be remembered that the General Council of the Judiciary published a harsh note of rejection against this law in which it warned that "democracy, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law may be in danger". This danger comes from the Sánchez government, which has dedicated itself to destroying our rule of law in order to cling to power at any price, while carrying out a process with which the socialists have been colonizing all public institutions as if our country were their private estate.
Sanchez said he wanted to act like a historic socialist who defended a dictatorship
If we Spaniards want to preserve our democracy, the best thing we can do is to remove from power an autocrat who is destroying our rule of law, who has all kinds of dictatorships as great allies and who last year refused to demand that dictator Maduro end repression in Venezuela, simply because that country has a socialist dictatorship. It is precisely the type of dictatorship defended by Francisco Largo Caballero, president of the PSOE between October 1932 and December 1935, and about which in 2021 Sánchez said that "he acted as we want to act". That is the true idea that Sánchez has about dictatorships.
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Photo: La Moncloa.
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