{"id":53181,"date":"2023-09-25T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53181"},"modified":"2024-09-25T00:13:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T22:13:19","slug":"the-socialist-newspaper-el-pais-and-the-protests-what-it-says-in-2023-and-what-it-said-in-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/25\/the-socialist-newspaper-el-pais-and-the-protests-what-it-says-in-2023-and-what-it-said-in-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"The socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds and the protests: what it says in 2023 and what it said in 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds has been the unofficial spokesperson for the PSOE and its different governments.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/24\/the-pp-organizes-a-rally-for-equality-and-feijoo-ends-up-defending-socialism\/\">The PP organizes a rally \u201cfor equality\u201d and Feij\u00f3o ends up defending socialism<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/21\/the-new-campaign-of-socialist-manipulation-to-launder-the-privileges-for-their-allies\/\">The new campaign of socialist manipulation to launder the privileges for their allies<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>El Pa\u00eds describes the PP protest as \u201cdemocratic deterioration\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The editorials of that newspaper <strong>are like the fatwas of Spanish socialism:<\/strong> they are the sentences that tell us if we are good or bad democrats, if we are good or bad people and if we do the right thing, <strong>always according to the scale of socialism of the dictates of the PSOE<\/strong>. Judging by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/d9ioq\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his editorial published yesterday<\/a>, the authoritarian vein of Spanish socialism has once again swelled with < a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/24\/the-pp-organizes-a-rally-for-equality-and-feijoo-ends-up-defending-socialism\/\">yesterday's PP rally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The socialist newspaper <strong>uses the expression \"democratic deterioration\"<\/strong> not to describe Pedro S\u00e1nchez's willingness to approve an amnesty, something clearly prohibited by the Constitution, but <strong>to describe yesterday's protest by the PP in the streets of Madrid<\/strong>. And that despite the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/24\/the-pp-organizes-a-rally-for-equality-and-feijoo-ends-up-defending-socialism\/\">Feij\u00f3o made a defense of socialism<\/a>. Who knows what El Pa\u00eds would be publishing if the protest had been called by the conservatives of Vox, who deny socialism and reject any pact with socialists.<\/p>\n<p><big>The socialist newspaper says that \u201cpolitics is made in Parliament\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The most striking part of the El Pa\u00eds editorial says the following: <em>\"<strong>Politics is made in Parliament<\/strong>, so it would also be expected that it would be there, <strong>and not in the street<\/strong>, where he made an assessment of the political situation in Catalonia\"<\/em>. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dle.rae.es\/pol%C3%ADtico#Ta2HMYR\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Spanish Academy<\/a>, one of the meanings of the word \"politics\" is the following: <em>\"<strong>Activity of the citizen when he intervenes in public affairs with his opinion<\/strong>, with his vote, or in any other way.\"<\/em> Without a doubt, <strong>it is necessary to have an elitist and undemocratic mentality to believe that politics is only made in parliament and not in the street<\/strong>, which is one of the spaces in which citizens can express our opinions.<\/p>\n<p><big>What El Pa\u00eds said 20 years ago when the PP governed<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It must be said that the socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds did not always exhibit this allergy towards street protests. <strong>In March 2003, when the Popular Party was in power<\/strong> with Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Aznar at the head of the government, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/BHiMo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the socialist newspaper published an editorial titled \"Right to demonstrate\"<\/a>, in which it stated the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"President Aznar has claimed time and again in his appearances before Congress the legitimacy that his parliamentary majority grants him to make the decisions he has made regarding the Iraq conflict. And he is right. But <strong>democracy is not exhausted in Parliament; it guarantees the free exercise by citizens<\/strong> of all the rights enshrined in the Constitution. Among them, <strong>very especially the right to demonstrate<\/strong>. And sometimes, as is the case, <strong>the street expresses different majorities than the ballot box<\/strong>. And both are protected by the Constitution.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From what it seems, <strong>that \"right to demonstrate\" that El Pa\u00eds claimed then should have been only for the left<\/strong>, because now, with a government made up of socialists and communists, the Grupo PRISA newspaper tells us that Politics must be done in Parliament and not in the street. <strong>Imagine that a right-wing media outlet now thought of saying that <em>\"the street expresses different majorities than the ballot box\"<\/em><\/strong>, when it is precisely the opposition to the left that decides to demonstrate ... <strong>The funniest thing about the authoritarian streak of the left is that it exposes itself with its newspaper archives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/populares\/53209258807\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Pa\u00eds<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds has been the unofficial spokesperson for the PSOE and its different governments.<\/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":[19536,10720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53181"}],"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=53181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}