{"id":57899,"date":"2024-11-28T06:52:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57899"},"modified":"2025-11-28T02:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:05:53","slug":"the-government-uses-rtve-to-intimidate-socialists-who-are-critical-of-pedro-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/28\/the-government-uses-rtve-to-intimidate-socialists-who-are-critical-of-pedro-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"The government uses RTVE to intimidate socialists who are critical of Pedro S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/27\/sanchez-adopts-the-forms-of-the-worst-dictators-to-attack-santiago-abascal\/\">The dictatorial attitudes that Pedro S\u00e1nchez is adopting<\/a> are not only directed against his political rivals, as we saw yesterday in Congress.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/27\/sanchez-adopts-the-forms-of-the-worst-dictators-to-attack-santiago-abascal\/\">S\u00e1nchez adopts the forms of the worst dictators to attack Santiago Abascal<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/04\/27\/a-cocktail-of-mafia-sect-and-phrenopathic-the-north-korean-drift-of-spanish-socialism\/\">A cocktail of mafia, sect and phrenopathic: the North Korean drift of Spanish socialism<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Pedro S\u00e1nchez has turned the PSOE into his own personal sect<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It's been a while since <strong>S\u00e1nchez turned his party, the PSOE, into a sect dedicated to the cult of his person.<\/strong> He has ended up purging any critical voice that might question his leadership. The most recent example was yesterday with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/madrid\/20241127\/lobato-presenta-dimision-como-secretario-general-psoem_248517.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the resignation of Juan Lobato<\/a>, general secretary of the PSOE in Madrid, after having brought before a notary <strong>a WhatsApp conversation in which he was asked by the government to participate in the illegal leak<\/strong> of data from the partner of Isabel D\u00edaz Ayuso, the president of the Community of Madrid, of the Popular Party.<\/p>\n<p>This fact shows to what extent Spanish socialism has degenerated into <strong>an organisation in which those who do not want to participate in the most vile actions are ostracised<\/strong>. That is, if we trust Lobato's version, of course, because the alternative is that they set a <strong>trap for him to bear all the responsibility for that leak<\/strong> and his decision to take those messages to a notary has exposed both the government and the PSOE, demonstrating <strong>to what extent the level of distrust reaches among the party's own cadres<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Corruption scandals have increased internal criticism<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The PSOE has been having internal problems for some time now. The corruption cases affecting the government and the party <strong>have increased the number of voices already thinking about S\u00e1nchez's replacement<\/strong>. These voices were reflected in May in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/02\/sanchezs-farce-turns-against-him-the-socialist-newspaper-el-pais-is-considering-his-retirement\/\">an editorial in the socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds<\/a>, one of the media closest to and most loyal to the government. <strong>This editorial openly spoke of the \"succession debate\" in the PSOE and was critical of S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> for his openly intolerant attitude towards any internal disagreement: <em>\"If he had the perception that someone on his team was going it alone, <strong>his clear determination has been to cut off any aspirations at the root.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>The government uses RTVE to intimidate dissident socialists<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Next weekend, the <strong>PSOE<\/strong> will hold its federal congress in Seville and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariodesevilla.es\/espana\/video-congreso-federal-cerrar-filas-torno_8_2002868726.html\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez wants it to serve as a show of support<\/a> at a time when his corruption scandals (his wife and brother have already been charged) are weighing down the party in the polls. In the midst of this panorama, <strong>yesterday one of the official channels of Spanish National Television,<\/strong> a communication group paid for by all taxpayers and used by the government as its own propaganda organ, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rtvenoticias\/status\/1861866486677016842\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published this controversial message<\/a> at 9:15 p.m. CET:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54169193241_6932246268_o.png\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54169193241_7d09ab76db_b.jpg\" style=\"width:661px; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0; border:2px solid #252525;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\"<strong>Socialist sources believe that Lobato's death could be a warning to the rest of the federations,<\/strong> which are beginning their leadership renewal after the federal congress that the PSOE is holding this weekend\"<\/em>, the message states. Many Twitter users have interpreted this message as what it seems: <strong>an attempt to intimidate socialists who are critical of S\u00e1nchez<\/strong, using state television paid for by all Spaniards. <strong>Behaviour typical of a mafia<\/strong>, and not of a party that calls itself democratic.<\/p>\n<p><big>The monster they have helped create turns against them<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It must be said that <strong>the dissidents of the PSOE, if there are any left, are reaping what they have sown<\/strong>. For years they have continued to support a party whose top leader is a narcissist with autocratic habits, who does not tolerate dissent among his rivals or among his supporters, <strong>a left-wing extremist who seems to confuse Spain with North Korea<\/strong>. They did not think it was wrong when these anti-democratic attitudes were directed against the political opposition, and now the monster they have helped to create is turning against them.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/53608112694\/in\/dateposted\/\">PSOE<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dictatorial attitudes that Pedro S\u00e1nchez is adopting are not only directed against his political rivals, as we saw yesterday in Congress.<\/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":[22537,693,2721,1291,11462],"class_list":["post-57899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-communication","tag-juan-lobato","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-rtve","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57899"}],"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=57899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}