Sánchez's mockery of Congress and the shadow of a socialist who wanted a dictatorship

"The Cortes Generales represent the Spanish people and are made up of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate."

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El Congreso y el Senado piden la dimisión de Sánchez

The text that begins this article is the first point of Article 66 of the Spanish Constitution, the second point of which states that the Cortes Generales (Parliament) have, among other powers, the authority to oversee the actions of the government. Yesterday, an unprecedented situation arose in Spain: for the first time in half a century of democracy, the Congress of Deputies and the Senate called for the resignation of the Prime Minister, who is embroiled in a wave of corruption scandals affecting his personal circle (his wife and brother), his government, and his party.

In 2018, Sánchez called for elections against Rajoy because he lacked the support to pass the budget

In Spain, the Prime Minister is elected by the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Parliament. Pedro Sánchez began his second term three years ago. Yesterday, the same Congress that granted him its support to govern in 2023 withdrew its confidence, an event that in any other European Union country would have been a source of shame for the government and a complete political disgrace that would have led to its downfall. Of course, in any other EU country, we wouldn't have reached this situation in which a government besieged by corruption clings to power, showing utter contempt for the public interest, after three years of being unable to pass a national budget due to a lack of parliamentary support.

Let us remember that we are in a situation that Sánchez himself pointed out as grounds for calling elections when he was in the opposition: "If this government does not approve the budget, it has nothing more to say except to call elections," he said in March 2018, referring to Mariano Rajoy's government. Today it is Sánchez who refuses to call elections after having lost his parliamentary majority. He refuses to allow a government with the necessary support to fulfill its constitutional duties because his main concern in politics is himself and his personal interests.

Sánchez laughs at Parliament after it called for his resignation

Yesterday, at the end of that parliamentary session in which Congress had called for his resignation, a purely grotesque situation occurred: Sánchez laughed and applauded himself, amidst the applause of the other Socialist deputies, attempting to silence the shouts demanding his resignation. This is a typical reaction of those who understand politics as a sect or as adherence to the leader in the style of North Korea, politicians who consider parliament dispensable (let us remember that In September 2024, Sánchez already threatened to govern without legislative power and that today they mock the democratic institution that represents the Spanish people.

Following in the footsteps of a totalitarian in 1933

This makes it increasingly clear, if it wasn't already, that Sánchez intends to turn Spain into a dictatorship. Let us recall that in 1933, during the Second Republic, the then leader of the PSOE, Francisco Largo Caballero, advocated for establishing a dictatorship in Spain, under the pretext that "carrying out socialist work within a bourgeois democracy is impossible". In 2021, Sánchez said that Largo Caballero "acted as we want to act today", a statement that was a clear warning about the true intentions of the current Socialist leader. What we saw yesterday in Congress was Sánchez acting as if he were following in Largo Caballero's totalitarian footsteps.

It's not hard to imagine what Sánchez would be capable of if he wanted to imitate in every way that totalitarian fanatic who led the PSOE between 1932 and 1935. Just look at the history books: In October 1934, Largo Caballero led a coup d'état after threatening Spain with "war" if the right wing won the elections, an act of coercion against the people that ended up giving way to a violent attempt to overthrow a democratic government. With their shameful applause yesterday, all the PSOE deputies are letting themselves be led astray by a madman and will be responsible, along with him, for any barbarity he commits from now on, just as they are responsible for each and every one of the abuses that Sánchez has committed so far.

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