{"id":58020,"date":"2024-12-10T07:01:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58020"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:20:32","slug":"dont-judicialise-politics-does-spanish-socialism-believe-itself-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/10\/dont-judicialise-politics-does-spanish-socialism-believe-itself-above-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"'Don't judicialise politics': does Spanish socialism believe itself above the law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, a minister in S\u00e1nchez's government made a statement that should cause a huge scandal in Spain and abroad.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/07\/sanchez-uses-against-judges-and-opposition-the-hoax-he-already-used-to-criminalize-pro-lifers\/\">Sanchez uses against judges and opposition the hoax he already used to criminalize pro-lifers<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/02\/never-forget-what-some-did-when-the-socialist-party-was-sinking-into-corruption\/\">Never forget what some did when the Socialist Party was sinking into corruption<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The socialist \u00d3scar L\u00f3pez \u00c1gueda<\/strong>, who was director of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government until September 6 (the day he was appointed Minister for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service), <strong>stated on Spanish Television that <em>\"politics is being judicialized\"<\/em><\/strong> and that <em>\"the Judiciary must respect the rest of the powers\"<\/em>, in reference to the socialist corruption scandals that are being investigated by the Justice. Here you can see <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LaHoraTVE\/status\/1866037806746751466\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the video of that statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00d3scar L\u00f3pez, sobre las causas judiciales que afectan al Gobierno y al PSOE: &quot;Se est\u00e1 judicializando la pol\u00edtica (...) El Poder Judicial debe respetar al resto de poderes&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fINk5aZXfZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/fINk5aZXfZ<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaHora%C3%93scarL%C3%B3pez?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LaHora\u00d3scarL\u00f3pez<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gki0wod2k\">pic.twitter.com\/8gki0wod2k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; La Hora de La 1 (@LaHoraTVE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LaHoraTVE\/status\/1866037806746751466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It's curious how things have changed. <strong>When the corruption scandals of the Popular Party were being investigated by the courts, we did not see any socialist make such allegations.<\/strong> Then the judges did their job and the PSOE had nothing to object to. <strong>Things have changed when the socialists are being investigated.<\/strong> It is now that the claim of \"not judicializing politics\" is used.<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly astonishing to see <strong>a minister complaining that the courts are investigating alleged crimes simply because their perpetrators are from his political circle<\/strong>. What this type of statement conveys to Spanish society is obvious: <strong>if any citizen violates the law, he must face the consequences, but if the socialist government violates the law, then we should not \"judicialize politics.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems, and I do not believe I am exaggerating, that <strong>Spanish socialism believes itself to be above the law<\/strong>, as if the rules of coexistence that our legislators approve in Parliament - with the support of those same socialists - were applicable to everyone except them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the pillars of democracy is that we are all equal before the law,<\/strong> and no one can be discriminated against or privileged because of their ideology or political activism. <strong>Every time a politician asks to \"not judicialize politics,\" what he is suggesting is that politicians enjoy more privileges,<\/strong> in addition to those already granted to them by the Constitution in the form of parliamentary immunity (Article 71).<\/p>\n<p>As I pointed out at the beginning, <strong>these statements should cause a great scandal in Spain and abroad<\/strong>, because what this minister seems to suggest is that the socialist government believes itself to be above the law, <strong>as if the government had the right to commit crimes with total impunity<\/strong>. Such an attitude is radically anti-democratic and should lead us to be suspicious of any politician who makes such a claim. <strong>The alarming thing is that such a statement hardly causes a scandal any more.<\/strong> Have we perhaps become accustomed to our leaders openly displaying such an anti-democratic attitude?<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: Efe.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, a minister in S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s government made a statement that should cause a huge scandal in Spain and abroad.<\/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":[23245,693,10641,10796],"class_list":["post-58020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-oscar-lopez-agueda","tag-psoe","tag-political-corruption","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58020"}],"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=58020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}