I have been denouncing that the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) has returned to the extreme left, if it ever left it.<\/p>\n
Today, Pedro S\u00e1nchez's party has once again demonstrated this in the Congress of Deputies, where an initiative by the Popular Party was voted on (its parliamentary dossier can be seen here<\/a>) to demand an end to repression in Venezuela and to ask the Spanish government to bring dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro before the International Criminal Court<\/strong> for crimes against humanity. The four points of this initiative have been approved<\/strong>, with the support of the PP, Vox and UPN in all cases.<\/p>\n Significantly, the PSOE has only voted in favour of one of the points of the text<\/strong>, the third, which states the following: \"Support the United Nations reports that record serious violations of human rights in Venezuela\"<\/em>. However, in the rest of the points the PSOE has behaved as a mere defender of the Maduro dictatorship<\/strong>, voting together with its communist allies against these three points:<\/p>\n 1. Issue a public statement addressed to Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, demanding the immediate cessation of repression and the release of all political prisoners<\/strong> and arbitrarily detained persons.<\/p>\n 2. Join the complaint filed in 2018 and contact the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and request progress in Situation Venezuela 1, and request the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC to issue an arrest warrant against Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Moros and other suspects of the perpetration of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n 4. Submit to the Congress of Deputies, within one month, a report on the actions carried out by the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela in defense of the fundamental rights of Spanish citizens who are victims of crimes against humanity<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n It should be noted that the PSOE has indeed requested an arrest warrant for Maduro<\/strong>, but the S\u00e1nchez government did join South Africa's accusation against Israel<\/a> in the International Criminal Court, an accusation launched by a far-left government that is an ally of Hamas terrorists<\/a>. It is shameful that the S\u00e1nchez government is thus attacking a democratic country that is defending itself from the most serious terrorist attack in its history<\/strong>, and at the same time openly supporting a dictatorship that has been violating the human rights of its own citizens for years.<\/p>\n The most astonishing thing is to see that the PSOE has even refused to demand that Maduro immediately cease the repression and release all political prisoners<\/strong>, as well as the preparation of a report on Spanish citizens who have been victims of crimes against humanity in Venezuela at the hands of that dictatorship. Once again, the PSOE shows that it is not a democratic party<\/strong>, a party that slanders a democratic country that is defending itself from terrorists and at the same time defends a socialist dictatorship<\/strong> with which it has had shady dealings<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is important to remember that this far-left government is supported by parties such as the PNV and Junts<\/strong>, which receive the votes of many Basques and Catalans who, regardless of their secessionist ideas, feel a clear rejection of the Venezuelan dictatorship. Once again, separatism acts as a crutch for the far left to degrade our democracy<\/strong> and to support those who defend dictators such as Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n Finally, it is the height of cynicism that the extreme left and its separatist allies pretend to give us lessons in \"democratic memory\"<\/strong>, even imposing their sectarian vision of the history of Spain through laws, at the same time that they support the dictatorship of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Venezuela<\/strong>. The true democratic memory will be that which many Venezuelans and Spaniards make in the coming years, remembering the complicity of the extreme left and separatism with a criminal regime like that of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n
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