Sánchez's government allows thugs to coerce and harass a democratic party

Yesterday, Santiago de Compostela saw an unveiling of Pedro Sánchez's government's plans for the upcoming general election.

The BNG, a partner of Bildu and an ally of Sánchez, supports the harassment of Vox by thugs
The BNG, ally of Sánchez, boasts of the support of a terrorist group during a public event

Far-left thugs against a democratic party

A legal and democratic political organization—Vox, Spain’s third-largest party and the fourth-largest party in Galicia (having received the support of over 34,000 Galicians in the region's most recent autonomous elections)—had scheduled a public event in Santiago de Compostela for 7:30 PM. Hours beforehand, several hundred far-left thugs gathered at the site to prevent the event from taking place:

A escasos minutos de empezar nuestro acto, los radicales siguen a las puertas del Centro Sociocultural tratando de impedir su celebración.

La alcaldesa de Santiago, @GorettiSRei, tiene la responsabilidad de garantizar que podamos ejercer nuestro derecho con libertad y seguridad. https://t.co/VG7lDVf64p pic.twitter.com/EdwO0WzdfC

— VOX Galicia (@VOXGalicia_) September 21, 2026

The government grants impunity to far-left thugs

The National Police deployed a woefully insufficient number of officers who merely established a police cordon between the far-left thugs and the people who had come to attend the Vox event. Vox MEP Jorge Buxadé stated: "I spoke with the officer in charge of the deployment, and he said he has no orders whatsoever to remove them, and the mayor of Santiago de Compostela has closed the venue"—a sociocultural center run by the Santiago City Council, which is currently governed by the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), a far-left separatist coalition that supports the Cuban dictatorship and has ties to a terrorist organization.

🔴 @Jorgebuxade tras el boicot al acto de VOX en Santiago:

“Esta es la España que quiere Sánchez. La España de la violencia, de la confrontación y del enfrentamiento”.

“Tienen miedo a la libertad y a la democracia. VOX va a seguir en todas las calles de Galicia y de España”. pic.twitter.com/D4STICnY26

— VOX Galicia (@VOXGalicia_) September 21, 2026

Vox to take the perpetrators of this harassment to court

Shortly after midnight, via a message on Twitter, Buxadé stated: "Sánchez's government and its separatist allies have tried to intimidate our people—in vain. While it is true that—with the complicity of the Mayor of Santiago (BNG) and the government sub-delegate (Marlaska)—they have violated our rights, we remained out on the street for the full scheduled time, calm and in high spirits. We will reclaim freedom from the streets and in the streets. Make no mistake."

Furthermore, the Vox MEP has announced that his party will take legal action this very day against the perpetrators of the act of coercion carried out this Monday in the Galician capital: "Let us hope the presiding judge is not intimidated, persecuted, or threatened by the socialist and separatist mafia and that those responsible for the offenses committed answer for their crimes. We press on."

They are neither 'protesters' nor 'anti-fascists': they are criminals

Of course, I stand in full solidarity with Vox in the face of this anti-democratic attack by the far-left against freedom of speech—an attack that is intolerable and must carry legal consequences for its perpetrators. In democratic countries, it is the law and the courts that set the boundaries of free speech, not a group of thugs who believe they have the right to decide who may express their views and who may not, and who fancy themselves the owners of the streets and public spaces paid for by us all.

It is high time we stopped whitewashing these far-left thugs, as some media outlets do by labeling them "protesters" or "anti-fascists." Those who use force to try to prevent a legal political party from exercising its right of assembly deserve to be called criminals, because that is exactly what they are. For those who believe they have the right to engage in acts of thuggery like yesterday's, it is necessary to point out that they may have committed up to four distinct offenses: coercion (Article 172 of the Penal Code), violation of the right of assembly (Article 514.4), public disorder (Articles 557 et seq.), and a hate crime (Article 510), given that the act was directed against a group of people based on their ideology.

Those thugs are the closest thing to fascism in Galicia

Legally speaking, what we witnessed yesterday is equivalent to the actions of the Nazis who blocked Jewish students from entering German universities in the 1930s, or the harassment by Ku Klux Klan racists to bar Black people from universities in Alabama and Mississippi in the 1960s. In fact, if there is anything in Galicia that closely resembles fascism, it is precisely those far-left thug groups that have spent decades harassing, threatening, and assaulting those who disagree with them—and even forming terrorist groups like the EGPGC and Resistencia Galega.

With yesterday's lamentable police deployment—accompanied by orders not to remove those criminals—Pedro Sánchez's government made it clear that it plans to use these thugs to coerce political rivals, yet another sign of the authoritarian drift the Left is imposing on Spain. We cannot allow intolerant individuals to turn our country into a dictatorship. The government has the means and the duty to act to prevent these thugs from succeeding in their harassment campaigns. If he fails to fulfill his obligation to defend everyone's rights, Sánchez will be held responsible for all the harm caused by these criminals—not only politically but also legally—for failing in his duty to prosecute crimes simply because these criminals are doing his dirty work.

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Photo: Vox Galicia.