{"id":59928,"date":"2025-06-17T06:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T04:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59928"},"modified":"2025-06-19T06:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T04:54:16","slug":"pedro-sanchez-and-democracy-he-prevents-spaniards-from-voting-so-they-dont-vote-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/17\/pedro-sanchez-and-democracy-he-prevents-spaniards-from-voting-so-they-dont-vote-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez and democracy: he prevents Spaniards from voting so they don't vote badly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things as revealing about a politician as his fear of letting his fellow citizens decide whether he deserves to remain in office.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/16\/pedro-sanchez-doesnt-believe-in-the-cis-and-rejects-the-right-for-spaniards-to-vote-until-2027\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez doesn't believe in the CIS and rejects the right for Spaniards to vote until 2027<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/06\/12\/pedro-sanchez-feigns-ignorance-to-avoid-resigning-over-psoe-corruption-cases\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez feigns ignorance to avoid resigning over PSOE corruption cases<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Pedro S\u00e1nchez came to power in Spain through a vote of no confidence in 2018 with <strong>the argument of combating political corruption within the Popular Party<\/strong>. Seven years later, and two years after a general election in which <strong>the PSOE lost<\/strong> (it was the second most voted party and S\u00e1nchez has only remained in power by making all kinds of infamous concessions to his separatist partners), <strong>the Socialist Party has proven to be, once again, as corrupt or more so than the PP<\/strong>, in addition to having mafia-like attitudes aimed at <strong>attacking judges and journalists who investigate this corruption<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elentirvigo\/status\/1934441032323944547\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">something that the PSOE already did decades ago<\/a> during Felipe Gonz\u00e1lez's government.<\/p>\n<p>Following his 2023 electoral defeat and his attacks on the rule of law, <strong>S\u00e1nchez and the PSOE have been politically delegitimized to continue governing.<\/strong> This delegitimization could extend from politics to the realm of justice if <strong>possible illegal financing of the PSOE<\/strong> is finally confirmed. Right now, S\u00e1nchez only remains in power because his separatist allies need him, the weaker the better, <strong>to continue dismantling the rule of law and national unity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M3bSYLZ9UYA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his press conference yesterday<\/a>, the socialist leader <strong>made it clear that he refuses to call early elections because he knows that the combination of the PP and Vox would remove him from power<\/strong>. In his speech, S\u00e1nchez dared to deny the Spanish people the opportunity to speak with this argument: <em>\"<strong>Handing over the reins to the PP and Vox, with their reactionary agenda, would be tremendously irresponsible<\/strong>.\"<\/em> It is a statement laden with cynicism if we take into account that <strong>this government is allied with the heirs of ETA and the perpetrators of the 2017 separatist coup in Catalonia<\/strong>, political forces whose discourse is based on <strong>hatred of Spain and the promotion of inequality among Spaniards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As has been demonstrated many times, <strong>in any other European country, a government besieged by serious corruption scandals would have resigned<\/strong>, if only to avoid dragging the country's image through the mud. In Spain, this is not the case because <strong>S\u00e1nchez clings to power in the belief that anything goes to keep it<\/strong>, even causing serious discredit to democratic institutions. Yesterday it was already very clear that <strong>S\u00e1nchez does not want the Spanish people to vote because they believe they will vote badly<\/strong>, because he believes that his personal desires as a politician take precedence over respect for millions of citizens, who do not deserve to be subjected to <strong>a corrupt government that attacks the foundations of democracy<\/strong>, starting with the separation of powers.<\/p>\n<p>But the Socialist leader doesn't just want to remain in power for two more years because he's a narcissist who puts his desires above all else. Furthermore, <strong>S\u00e1nchez wants to dedicate these next two years to guaranteeing himself total impunity<\/strong>, assaulting the judiciary and preventing judges from having the power to prosecute corrupt Socialists. <strong>S\u00e1nchez's end will be a challenge to our democracy: he wants to subject it to his whims<\/strong>, and for Spaniards to simply watch what happens and pay the bills for the favors he grants his parliamentary partners. <strong>It's the old despotism in the 21st century, resurrected by socialism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/54593575313\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSOE<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things as revealing about a politician as his fear of letting his fellow citizens decide whether he deserves to remain in office.<\/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":[693,2721,10641,11462],"class_list":["post-59928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-political-corruption","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59928"}],"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=59928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}