In all countries, the fairest way to evaluate a politician or a party is not to take into account their intentions, but their actions.<\/p>\n
This Wednesday, the Popular Party (PP) announced that it will present an amendment to the amnesty law<\/a> with which it intends to \"cripify declarations of independence and illegal referendums and consultations, promoting the dissolution of organizations and\/or legal persons that commit any of these crimes<\/strong>\"<\/em>. Many Spanish media highlighted yesterday on their front pages that the PP's proposal would involve outlawing separatist parties such as Junts per Catalunya and ERC<\/strong>, in case it organizes again - as they already announced - a separatist coup like the one that carried out in 2017 in Catalonia.<\/p>\n This initiative is very reminiscent of some proposals made by Vox. Logically, many people will wonder which of the two parties is sincere in making these proposals<\/strong> and takes the fight against separatism seriously, as it represents a threat to national unity. I propose five clues to clarify doubts.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Did that party implement those measures when it governed?<\/big> <\/p>\n It is a question that we can only answer in the case of the PP, since Vox has not had the opportunity to govern Spain<\/strong>, so it has the benefit of the doubt in its favor. However, the PP has governed Spain for 15 years<\/strong> (with Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Aznar between 1996 and 2004, and with Mariano Rajoy between 2011 and 2018) and never promoted or supported these types of measures. <\/strong> In fact, it could have been done during Rajoy's mandate, who faced two illegal separatist consultations (2014 and 2017), and despite carrying out a reform of the Penal Code in 2015, he did not even contemplated these types of measures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 2. Has that party proposed the outlawing of separatist parties before?<\/big> <\/p>\n This question is easy to answer, just review the newspaper archives. Vox already proposed it in 2019<\/a> in the Madrid Assembly and then the PP supported the proposal, but when Vox took that initiative to Congress in 2020<\/a> , the PP abstained<\/a>. Less than two months ago, on November 21, 2023, the Senate voted on a Vox initiative that called for outlawing Junts and ERC<\/a> and the PP voted against<\/a >, together with the left and the separatists.<\/p>\n 3. Has that party fought the separatist parties in court?<\/big> <\/p>\n Once again, newspaper archives shed light on this matter. Vox began in 2017 the judicial process against the ringleaders of the separatist coup<\/a> perpetrated that same year in Catalonia, a complaint that allowed those seditionists to be taken to prison. The PP, then in government, did not take any judicial action against the promoters of that coup<\/strong> and he even disassociated himself from his arrests<\/a>, but two years later, when the rebels were put on trial, the PP took credit for the result of the judicial actions of Vox<\/a>.<\/p>\n 4. Has that party made agreements with separatist parties?<\/big><\/p>\n It is a question of pure coherence: it would not be credible for a party to claim that it intends to outlaw separatist parties and at the same time make a pact with them. That question is easy to answer. Vox has not reached any agreement with separatist parties.<\/strong> In fact, the relationship between Vox and these parties is one of pure hostility, as demonstrated by the harassment that separatism has been promoting against Vox for years.<\/p>\n On the contrary, the PP raised a possible pact with Junts after the last general elections<\/a>. Likewise, in September The PP proposed to Junts and the PSC to agree on Barcelona's budgets<\/a>. This, unfortunately, is nothing new: the PP had already agreed with the CiU separtists<\/a> when they imposed linguistic fines on merchants for label in Spanish.<\/p>\n These are the facts. Now, on this basis, readers are free to decide who they prefer to trust.<\/strong> Of course, to those who decide to trust a party like the PP, which has a habit of not keeping its promises, I ask you at least to then don't come with tears.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Photos: Vox Congreso<\/a> \/ Partido Popular<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In all countries, the fairest way to evaluate a politician or a party is not to take into account their intentions, but their actions.<\/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":[19536,10398],"tags":[10998,641,11462,7535],"class_list":["post-54425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-nationalism","tag-partido-popular","tag-spain","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54425"}],"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=54425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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