Spain is witnessing its government take an increasingly brazen path away from the democratic system.<\/p>\n
The signs of authoritarianism in Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government<\/big><\/p>\n The government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez, a coalition of socialists from the PSOE and the communists of Sumar, began to go down that path with its attempt to control the judiciary, its attacks on constitutional rights<\/strong> (such as those it carried out by illegally confining Spaniards during the pandemic), its granting of criminal privileges to its allies<\/strong> (the most scandalous of which were those included in the amnesty granted to the leaders of the 2017 separatist coup), and its political colonization of all kinds of institutions<\/a> (turning the State into a placement agency for socialist militants and sympathizers).<\/p>\n To the list of this government's anti-democratic attitudes, we must add its attacks on freedom of information<\/a> (copying dictator Vladimir Putin's recipes for controlling the media), its lack of transparency<\/a> (we have the most opaque government Spain has had in almost half a century of democracy) and its constant disregard for the oversight work of Parliament<\/strong>, in which S\u00e1nchez and his ministers systematically dedicate themselves to answering any question from the opposition with attacks on his rivals and without offering any explanation, in addition to being the government that has approved the most decrees<\/a> in the current democratic regime, resorting on a daily basis to a mechanism that the Constitution limits to cases of \"extraordinary and urgent need.\"<\/p>\n Pedro S\u00e1nchez's party lost the last general elections<\/big><\/p>\n This is not being done by a government with an absolute majority: it is a government of a party that lost the last general elections<\/strong> and that bought its stay in power by making all kinds of illegal concessions to its separatist partners, shoving the increasingly large bill left by S\u00e1nchez's eagerness to cling to power at any price onto the Spanish people.<\/strong> What is happening in Spain is nothing new in history: it is a typical case of belief in the idea that anything goes in politics and contempt for democratic checks and balances<\/strong>, two ingredients that are never lacking in countries subject to an authoritarian drift.<\/p>\n The government says that presenting the budget is a \u201cwaste of time\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n
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