Yesterday the news broke of the death in prison of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, a new crime of Vladimir Putin's dictatorship.<\/p>\n
As he has been doing with other dissidents, Navalny was sentenced to 30 years in prison for \"extremism\"<\/a>, a political crime that serves to imprison anyone who opposes Putin<\/strong> and his criminal regime. A regime that has accomplices in Western countries, mainly on the extreme left, and even in the government of Spain.<\/p>\n In 2021 the European Parliament called for the release of Navalny<\/big><\/p>\n On January 21, 2021, the European Parliament approved a resolution on Navalny<\/a> with 581 votes in favor, 50 against and 44 abstentions. The resolution can be read here.<\/a> The resolution called for the release of Navalny<\/strong> and \"all other persons detained in relation to his return to Russia, whether they be journalists, team collaborators or citizens showing support.\"<\/em> The text also condemned the arrest of Navalny<\/strong> \"and his supporters, and the politically motivated repression carried out against them by the Russian authorities, including through the use of the justice system.\"<\/em><\/p>\n The communists Sira Rego and Manuel Pineda voted against<\/big><\/p>\n In this document (see PDF) you can see what each MEP voted<\/a> (page 331). Among the Spanish parties, the text was supported by the Popular Party, Vox, Ciudadanos, the PSOE and the PNV<\/strong>. As is usual in any vote related to Russia, Putin's Spanish puppets did not miss the opportunity to portray themselves: Bildu and Podemos abstained and the two communist MEPs from the United Left (IU) voted against<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Those two IU communists were the only Spanish MEPs who voted against that resolution: Sira Rego, current Minister of Youth, and Manuel Pineda; both are members of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE)<\/strong>, which also includes the vice president of the government Yolanda D\u00edaz<\/strong>, leader of the far-left Sumar coalition. On March 1, 2022, Rego and Pineda also did not support the European condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three years later Sira Rego is a minister in the S\u00e1nchez government<\/big><\/p>\n That is to say, Navalny was in prison with the approval of a communist who is today a minister in Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government<\/strong>. It is worth remembering, by the way, that in the debate on that European resolution, the MEP Hermann Tertsch, from Vox<\/strong> (a party constantly demonized by that government of which the communist Rego is a member) pointed out<\/a> that Navalny's arrest is \"an insult to all of us, to the entire international community and, especially, to Europe\"<\/em><\/strong>, in addition to criticizing the attitude complacency of Brussels in the face of Russian-allied regimes such as communist China, Cuba and Venezuela.<\/p>\n It is worth asking with what authority Pedro S\u00e1nchez dares to give lessons on democracy to anyone<\/strong>, while he has in his government communists like Yolanda D\u00edaz and Sira Rego, members of a party, the PCE, which remains anchored in the servility towards Moscow<\/strong> that it exhibited during the long years of the Soviet communist dictatorship.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Photo: Efe. 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