{"id":57037,"date":"2024-09-09T06:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57037"},"modified":"2024-09-10T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:24:21","slug":"the-silence-of-many-spanish-media-on-a-serious-statement-by-pedro-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/09\/the-silence-of-many-spanish-media-on-a-serious-statement-by-pedro-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"The silence of many Spanish media on a serious statement by Pedro S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spoke to you here about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/08\/governing-without-legislative-power-pedro-sanchez-is-announcing-a-dictatorship\/\">some words spoken on Saturday by Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a> at a meeting of the PSOE federal committee.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/08\/governing-without-legislative-power-pedro-sanchez-is-announcing-a-dictatorship\/\">Governing without legislative power: Pedro S\u00e1nchez is announcing a dictatorship<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/08\/pedro-sanchezs-operation-to-do-maduro-a-big-favor-by-faking-a-humanitarian-act\/\">Pedro Sanchez's operation to do Maduro a big favor by faking a humanitarian act<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In that statement, and after outlining what will theoretically be his political agenda, S\u00e1nchez stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>We are going to move forward with determination on this agenda with or without the support of the opposition, with or without the participation of a legislative branch,<\/strong> which necessarily has to be more constructive and less restrictive.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also added here <strong>the video in which anyone can hear those statements<\/strong> (the video is Spanish, you can activate automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pedro S\u00e1nchez anuncia que gobernar\u00e1 sin el poder legislativo\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2IFsm5gAdtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is very serious that a ruler of a democratic country clearly states that he intends to govern without parliament,<\/strong> which in any democracy is the power in charge of making laws and supervising the actions of the government. <b>A statement like this should cause a scandal in Spain.<\/b> On Twitter, this statement has been widely disseminated. Last night I decided to do a test <strong>by searching on Google for the term \"Sanchez poder legislativo\"<\/strong> (S\u00e1nchez legislative power), and this appeared:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53981485298_325d02e6e2_h.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53981485298_3f87eb1e5a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was surprised to see that one of the five results is this website.<\/strong> As you know (and if you don't, I'll remind you once again), although it appears in Google News, <strong>Contando Estrelas is a blog<\/strong>, not a general media outlet. It is very rare to find this blog on the front page when searching for a current news item like that on Google. How is this possible? The explanation is as simple as it is sad: <strong>the vast majority of the major media have silenced this statement by S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> or have not paid much attention to it.<\/p>\n<p>So, <strong>in Spain we have a prime minister who announces that he will govern without the legislative power<\/strong>, that is, without the two chambers of parliament that \"represent the Spanish people\" (Article 66 of the Constitution), <strong>and most of the media look the other way and remain silent<\/strong>. I don't know the reason for this silence, but it's not hard to imagine it given one fact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozpopuli.com\/espana\/maquinaria-sanchez-dispara-554-millones-gasto-publicidad-institucional-doble-rajoy.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year, S\u00e1nchez's government squandered 554 million euros on institutional advertising<\/a>. There is no money for ALS patients, but there is money to make propaganda and buy the favor (and silence) of the media.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this for tomorrow, because <strong>this is how a democracy disappears: when those who have to oversee the political power stop doing so<\/strong>, and among those who have that duty are the media, the famous \"fourth power.\"<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I refuse to lose hope: <strong>today, thanks to social media, we can turn that silence into an outcry<\/strong>. It is something we can all do, by spreading the word about what the government wants to silence. <strong>You can do your bit with a simple tweet.<\/strong> It has never been easier than now to contribute to the defence of democracy. Let us each take on this task, please.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/53045281468\/in\/dateposted\/\">PSOE<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I spoke to you here about some words spoken on Saturday by Pedro S\u00e1nchez at a meeting of the PSOE federal committee.<\/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":[2721],"class_list":["post-57037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57037"}],"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=57037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}