The coalition government of socialists and communists led by Pedro S\u00e1nchez continues its journey towards an authoritarian regime.<\/p>\n
Yesterday we witnessed a new chapter that clearly demonstrates the undermining of the Congress of Deputies by the extreme left<\/strong>, a category into which the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) has fully fallen with its authoritarian drift. The Congress's governing board, controlled by the PSOE and its communist partners in Sumar<\/strong>, prevented Congress from voting on two motions calling for early elections<\/a>, arguing that this is a prerogative of the government. A purely absurd argument, because the mere fact that the government has a certain power does not mean that Congress cannot ask for something<\/strong>, even if the government then ignores it, as has been the norm since S\u00e1nchez came to power.<\/p>\n Under the presidency of the socialist Francina Armengol, the left is imposing a sectarian and authoritarian steamroller in Congress<\/strong>, vetoing all initiatives it dislikes and blocking measures already approved but opposed by the government. This situation is being imposed by two parties that together hold 152 seats<\/strong>, well below the 176 needed for a majority. Therefore, what we are witnessing is abhorrent from a democratic point of view: a minority has decided to block the normal functioning of the lower house of the Spanish Parliament<\/strong>, abusing its power to turn Congress into a mere figurehead.<\/p>\n What we are seeing is a new episode in the S\u00e1nchez government's journey towards a dictatorship<\/strong>, a journey that has already progressed through stages such as the systematic attacks from the government on the Judiciary, the free media and the parliamentary opposition; the colonization of institutions by the socialists<\/a>, adopting forms typical of a one-party regime; the constant violation of the Constitution<\/strong>, rendered meaningless by a government that also controls the Constitutional Court; And of course, the constant abuses of power by S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, an apprentice autocrat who is already, to this day, the ruler who has issued the most decrees in half a century of democracy in Spain<\/a>, in a boundless desire to usurp the powers of the Legislative Branch.<\/p>\n
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