Yesterday, the left launched a new attack on Article 20 of the Spanish Constitution, which protects freedom of information, in Congress.<\/p>\n
Article 20 protects the right to \"freely express and disseminate thoughts, ideas and opinions<\/strong> by word of mouth, writing or any other means of reproduction\"<\/em> and to \"freely communicate or receive truthful information<\/strong> by any means of dissemination.\"<\/em> Point 2 of the Article warns: \"The exercise of these rights cannot be restricted by any form of prior censorship<\/strong>\".<\/em> Considering the fact that six Spanish parties (all of them left-wing) support dictatorships<\/a>, including the two governing parties (PSOE and Sumar), it seems that they have decided to imitate the authoritarian regimes they support<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In May, I already indicated here that the left and its separatist partners are promoting a reform to censor inconvenient journalists<\/a>, a joint initiative whose promoters include the two aforementioned government parties (PSOE and Sumar) and also Euskal Herria Bildu, a party that refuses to condemn the crimes of the terrorist group ETA, including the murders of two journalists: Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Portell Manso<\/strong>, director of the Bilbao newspaper Hoja del Lunes (shot dead in Bilbao on June 28, 1978), and Jos\u00e9 Luis L\u00f3pez de la Calle<\/strong>, a columnist for the newspaper El Mundo and founder of the Ermua Forum (shot dead in Ando\u00e1in on May 7, 2000).<\/p>\n Yesterday, that reform took a step further with the rejection of the two amendments to the entirety of that reform<\/a>, amendments presented by the Popular Party and Vox<\/strong>. Both were rejected with 166 votes in favor and 174 against. Thus, possibly within a few weeks, any journalist who asks questions that are uncomfortable for the left could be censored<\/strong> and lose their accreditation to report from Congress, since the Bureau of that chamber is controlled by the socialists of the PSOE and their partners, the communists of Sumar.<\/p>\n What happened yesterday is yet another corruption scandal.<\/strong> As I pointed out here<\/a> a few weeks ago, corruption is not just about a politician stealing public funds. Above all, political corruption is the abuse of power granted by the people to illicitly obtain personal or partisan benefits.<\/strong> Violating the constitutional right to freedom of information to prevent journalists from asking uncomfortable questions of left-wing parties is a clear case of corruption that, coincidentally, benefits a government that is cornered by the socialist corruption scandals<\/strong> that were brought to light by various media outlets and are now being investigated by judges.<\/p>\n
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