{"id":51968,"date":"2023-06-09T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51968"},"modified":"2023-06-11T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T20:03:07","slug":"a-polish-politician-points-out-that-pp-and-vox-could-investigate-russian-influence-in-spain-after-july-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/09\/a-polish-politician-points-out-that-pp-and-vox-could-investigate-russian-influence-in-spain-after-july-23\/","title":{"rendered":"A Polish politician points out that PP and Vox could investigate Russian influence in Spain after July 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most fascinating things about following the Polish media is that you can discover things about Spain that hardly anyone publishes here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/12\/russias-support-for-separatism-in-spain-and-the-support-of-spanish-separatists-for-russia\/\">Russia's support for separatism in Spain and the support of Spanish separatists for Russia<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/10\/the-spanish-intelligence-service-beheaded-to-satisfy-putins-puppets-in-spain\/\">The Spanish intelligence service, beheaded to satisfy Putin's puppets in Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Research on Russian influence in Poland<\/big><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the conservative Polish daily <a href=\"https:\/\/wpolityce.pl\/swiat\/649174-komisja-ds-rosyjskich-wplywow-w-hiszpanii-to-realne\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank \">wPolityce.pl published a story with this title<\/a>: <em>\u00ab<strong>Will the Spanish follow in the footsteps of the Poles?<\/strong> \"If the right wins the elections, a commission will be established there similar to investigate the influence of Russia\"\u00bb<\/em>. The news echoes <strong>some statements by MEP Ryszard Czarnecki, from the Prawo i Sprawiedliwo\u015b\u0107 party<\/strong> (PiS, Law and Justice, Polish partner of the Spanish party Vox) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pap.pl\/aktualnosci\/news%2C1580465%2Cryszard-czarnecki-wkrotce-w-hiszpanii-moze-powstac-komisja-do-spraw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published on June 3 by the Polish state agency PAP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On May 29, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prezydent.pl\/aktualnosci\/wydarzenia\/prezydent-rp-zapowiedzial-podpisanie-ustawy-dotyczacej-powolania-komisji-do-zbadania-wplywow-rosji-na-bezpieczenstwo-pol,69148\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a law to establish a commission<\/a> <strong>whose purpose is <em>\"investigating Russian influence in the security of Poland\".<\/em><\/strong> Duda noted that as a member of the Sejm (Poland's Parliament) and later the European Parliament, he participated many times in debates on the subject of <strong>Russian influence and Russian attempts to buy up companies in the most important branches of Polish industry:<\/strong> <em>\"We never found out what was the background of the actions that would lead to such decisions.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>A possible investigation that the PP and Vox would promote in Spain<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Czarnecki talks about the possible victory of the center-right in Spain in the general elections on July 23 and about <strong>the plans of the Popular Party (PP) and Vox to create a commission similar to the Polish one:<\/strong> <em>\"Both Spanish opposition parties have already made announcements about the establishment of such a commission, because an open secret is Russia's involvement in supporting Catalonia's quest for independence to destabilize the Kingdom of Spain.<strong> The creation of the commission is currently being blocked by the ruling socialists<\/strong> due to reports that the Kremlin was behind the attempts to separate Catalonia from Spain, and the Catalan autonomists cooperated with the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>The steps that the EU and France are taking to investigate this influence<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the Polish conservative MEP points out that <strong>recently <em>\"the European Parliament adopted the report of the INGE2 commission on this matter<\/strong>, in which I am the coordinator on behalf of European conservatives and reformists the report is dedicated to <strong>foreign interference in the democratic processes of the European Union. It is mainly about Russia, but not only<\/strong>\".<\/em> Regarding this issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/TA-9-2022-0064_EN.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you can see here the report approved by the European Parliament in March 2022<\/a> on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, a report that <strong>particularly singled out Russia and China<\/strong>, but also cited other countries, such as Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Czarnecki pointed out that a few days ago <em>\"there was also a leak about <strong>the report of a special commission of the National Assembly in France on Russian influence in this country.<\/strong> This report hits hard at the right-wing politicians. It cannot be denied that former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon was an employee of one of the Russian state-owned companies. As you can see, <strong>what is being attacked in Poland is considered necessary in Brussels, Paris and tomorrow probably also in Madrid<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>In 2022 Vox already denounced Russian influence among S\u00e1nchez's allies<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Last year, a month before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Vox deputy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/01\/26\/una-excelente-intervencion-de-ivan-espinosa-sobre-rusia-ucrania-la-otan-y-marruecos\/\">Iv\u00e1n Espinosa de los Monteros spoke about Russian influence among Pedro S\u00e1nchez's allies<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>the Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government partners have not hidden their admiration for Russia<\/strong>, and a Russia fond of destabilizing nations in recent years.<strong>The confluence of strategies, goals and objectives between Russia and Podemos<\/strong> It has been such that the think tank The Atlantic Council has come to describe the purple party as the Trojan of Russia.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Vox deputy pointed out that <em>\"it is difficult to forget that <strong>the still real leader of Podemos and a great admirer of Lenin, Pablo Iglesias, came to propose that Spain leave NATO<\/strong> and denounce the bilateral agreement with the United States, precisely <strong>while the National Court was investigating the participation of Russian intelligence in the October 1 coup in Catalonia<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez's decisions that could be the subject of this investigation<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Recall that in May 2022, a few months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/10\/the-spanish-intelligence-service-beheaded-to-satisfy-putins-puppets-in-spain\/\">S\u00e1nchez beheaded the CNI, the Spanish intelligence service, at the request of his pro-Russian allies<\/a>. As I already pointed out then, instead of asking the CNI to investigate Russia's interference in Spain, what S\u00e1nchez did was behead him at the request of Putin's puppets in Spain. <strong>It was a scandalous decision and parallel, by the way, to<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/11\/sanchez-increases-the-purchase-of-russian-gas-while-prohibiting-its-extraction-in-spain\/\">increase in imports of Russian gas to Spain<\/a> despite European sanctions against Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Mikhail Metzel \/ Kremlin.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most fascinating things about following the Polish media is that you can discover things about Spain that hardly anyone publishes here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[10613,455,12461,2721,10370,10723,10731,16153,19431,7535],"class_list":["post-51968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-andrzej-duda","tag-centro-nacional-de-inteligencia-cni","tag-ivan-espinosa-de-los-monteros","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-poland","tag-prawo-i-sprawiedliwosc-pis","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ryszard-czarnecki","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}