A minister in Pedro Sánchez's government calls for “ban Twitter”, like in Russia, Iran and North Korea

The coalition government of socialists and communists led by Pedro Sánchez continues its escalation of threats against freedoms.

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Yesterday, the government agency Efe published statements by the Minister of Youth and Childhood, the communist Sira Rego, regarding the digital censorship announced by Sánchez on Tuesday. If the Socialist leader intends to prohibit access to social media for those under 16 and impose content censorship on those networks, Rego goes even further: "The next battle must be aimed at limiting and surely prohibiting Twitter." The communist minister asserts that this free and uncensored space for the exchange of information and opinions is "anti-democratic," a statement that is very reminiscent of when the communist dictatorship of East Germany called itself a "democratic republic" and built what it termed an "anti-fascist protection wall" to prevent people from fleeing the country.

The measure proposed by Sira Rego is in force in seven dictatorships

Sira Rego demonstrates that she has the same inverted concept of democracy. The ban proposed by the communist minister is in effect in dictatorships such as communist China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Myanmar, Venezuela, and Turkmenistan. The only democratic country that has blocked Twitter is Brazil, with a far-left government that is following the same totalitarian path as Sánchez in Spain. In fully democratic countries, access to social media is completely free. What Rego intends is to imitate dictatorships.

Rego's party, the PCE, openly supports several dictatorships

To understand this minister's statements and falsehoods, some context is necessary. Sira Rego is a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), an extreme left-wing party that has made statements of support for dictatorships such as Cuba, Venezuela, Belarus, China, North Korea, Iran, and Vietnam. In 2022, a year before being appointed minister by Sánchez, Rego traveled to Cuba to support the communist dictatorship that has governed that country without free elections since 1959. In 2024, her party, the PCE, supported dictator Nicolás Maduro after his latest electoral fraud to remain in power. Therefore, if Twitter bothers Rego, it's not because the network is "anti-democratic," but because it's not subject to its censorship.

In addition to the above, it is worth remembering that on March 1, 2022, Rego refused to support the European condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At the time, she was a Member of the European Parliament for United Left, one of the electoral brands of the PCE (Communist Party of Spain) and one of the most pro-Russian groups in the European Parliament. Likewise, on October 19, 2023, Rego voted against the European condemnation of Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel, the largest antisemitic massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Rego not only failed to condemn this criminal attack but even justified it, calling it a "right to resist" in a message posted on Twitter on the very morning that Hamas terrorists were torturing, murdering, and raping Jewish men, women, children, and even babies.

An attempt to undermine democracy by a left wing sinking in the polls

It's not surprising to see this totalitarian escalation in a government that has such an extremist minister as Sira Rego. What is truly abnormal is that a European Union country has anti-democrats in its government, people from parties that have never won an election and who are simply there because Sánchez needed their support and was willing to do anything to get it, because Sánchez feels more comfortable with totalitarians like those of the PCE than with democratic parties that aren't left-wing. He has been demonstrating this for almost eight years with his actions at the head of the government.

In fact, the line separating the ideological positions of Sánchez's party, the PSOE, and its communist partners is becoming increasingly blurred. The Socialists have allowed themselves to be dragged to the extreme left, thus returning to the PSOE's totalitarian past. Sánchez is the main architect of this regressive drift that is now eroding democracy at a time when polls predict an electoral debacle for the left, weighed down by its corruption scandals and the bloody consequences of its terrible management. The idea of ​​Sánchez and his partners is very clear: since they are not getting the result they want in a democracy, they intend to undermine it, violating freedoms and adopting mechanisms typical of authoritarian regimes to ensure their continued hold on power by any means necessary.

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Photo: Efe. Communist Sira Rego at a public event of the far-left coalition Sumar.