THE RULE OF LAW. A LIE IS NOT A LIE, BUT CREATION OF A NEW REALITY. SPANISH ELECTIONS 2023

Seville, Spain - 2023.07.17

When, on the morning of 29 May, the Prime Minister of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, after the dissolution of the Cortes Generales, announced on the steps of La Moncloa early parliamentary elections for the middle of the summer - 23 July to be precise - and nervously explained that elections were the "most reliable method" of finding out the opinion of Spaniards on the policies of his government, the best ad vocem as to the truth of the intention of his words was the reaction of the Madrid IBEX stock market whose main indices ended the session in red. On that day, not only the markets, but also the general public, no one doubted that the decision to hold accelerated parliamentary elections was driven mainly by a cold political calculation on the part of those in power and a gamble on low voter turnout to ensure that their "comrades" would continue to hold on to power. This, however, after the defeat of the radical Socialists and the ultra-left and vanguard Communists in the local elections of 28 May in which they were defeated in almost all major urban areas and autonomous provinces by the People's Party (PP), is not so obvious. Only will this be enough to remove Sánchez, who is a prime example of Trumpism, that is, building a whole system of denial of reality through lies, from power?

Contrary to the proclaimed propaganda of the success of the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Podemos, as well as their reassurances of "historic" progress in law and democracy, more and more Spaniards are fed up with the lies and arrogance of the Prime Minister and his ministers, the increasing wave of democratic degradation, as well as the successive violations of the rule of law, the collapse of judicial institutions headed by the Supreme Court and the Attorney General's Office.

In his column "Pedro Sánchez, forgive me for splashing on you" (Pedro Sánchez, perdona que te "sal pique"), Professor José Luis Escañuela very aptly describes all these pathologies and abuses of power. The eminent Spanish jurist accuses Sánchez of influencing the National Prosecutor's Office and the appointment of judges, violating Fundamental Human Rights and marginalising the juridical function of the Basic Law. Escañuela reminds those in power that for many years they have been hiding the inconvenient truth about the Comprehensive Measures against Gender-based Violence Act (2004), the aftermath of which "is the presumption of guilt of men" and "Women's Courts", the legitimisation of false denunciations and child abductions by women. Professor Escañuela reproaches the Socialists for the fact that the legislation, which was introduced at the time under "enormous pressure and insistence from the powerful feminist lobby", was condemned by the legendary PSOE leader Alfonso Guerra (Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1991), making it unequivocally clear that it was a blatant delict distorting one of the supreme principles of the state of law, that is, the equality of all citizens before it.

Why, then, such a divergence of opinion between the incumbent Prime Minister and his senior political colleague on an issue as important as the protection of women's rights? To the rescue of the confused but attentive observer of political life in the Iberian Peninsula comes the ever reliable Pedro Sánchez himself, who, with the face of an innocent child, honestly admits "that a lie is not a lie, but the creation of a new reality", at the same time scaring citizens with the potential arrival of Alberto Feijóo (leader of the PP) and Santiago Abascal (leader of VOX) at the Palace of La Moncloa, which he believes will be "the harbinger of a dark film" marking the elimination of gender from equal respect for the rights of men and women. Accompanying these actions is Primus inter pares Deputy Prime Minister of the Government Nadia Calviño (Minister of Economy and Digital Transformation). According to her, "this is not the time to look the other way" or to "change course in politics and take a step back, because that would be a democratic failure of the rule of law that the ruling coalition represents", leaving aside the fact that the minister's partner, who speaks of a threat to democracy, is accused of embezzling 300 million EU funds...

Less than a decade ago, numerous far-left political groups emerged on the Old Continent - Syriza (Greece), La France insoumise (France), the Left Bloc (Portugal) or the Five Star Movement (Italy), but only the Spanish communist formation, or if you prefer the anti-system, created by Pablo Iglesias, managed to "touch power" thanks to the pact with the Socialists signed in 2019. One gets the impression that both have forgotten this fact or seem to ignore it, and if that is the case, we are looking at double standards. The PSOE can govern with the extreme Left, but the PP must reject any form of collaboration with Vox. Sánchez, realising that, apart from cynicism and populism, he has nothing left to offer the voters, is deliberately playing on a note of nationalism and treating his opponents with contempt, hoping that this will bring concrete benefits translated into election results that will allow the cacistocratic coalition he leads to continue in power. Ergo, paradoxically speaking of the threat of the return of fascism in Spain and of a campaign of political violence, he sanctions without any restraint the words of Irene Montero (Minister for Equality, whose only professional experience before taking up her position was as a cashier at Media Markt), who calls judges "Nazis in togas" (facha-togas) and macho illiterates who do not know how to interpret the whole festival of "subtle laws of progressive government". What in well-established democracies is considered hate speech and punishable (delito de odio), for Sánchez´ is a "mere" expression of opinion in public discourse..., therefore he does not react to similar statements made by the former (now) president of the PSOE in Seville, Amparo Rubiales Torrejón, when she calls her opponent a Jewish Nazi, only to rectify" by way of apology" a day later that Elías Bendodo (general coordinator of the PP in Andalusia) is not a Jew but a Nazi. Hypocrisy of the left in its purest form. Karl Marx once rightly observed that "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce".

In Sánchez´s case, all his politics are quantum. What is a lie to the average Smith is, to the Spanish Prime Minister, a mere "change of political position on certain state issues". For this reason, he will not back down from anything to defend the inconvenient truth about the indolence of the "progressive" government he heads. He will lie and justify every lie, accusing judges inconvenient to power of "trampling on democracy", as in the case of Judge Isabel Miñán García, who ordered 29 months' imprisonment for a woman who falsely accused her former partner of sexual abuse and bullying, while praising judges of the "likes of" Eugenio Pradilla Gordillo, José Manuel Mariño Perez or Victoria Rosell, whose hallmark in their work for "feminist justice" is procrastination and a lack of integrity and objectivity. This is best illustrated by the "mysterious" disappearances of key case files in which they were proceeding and their attempts to censor journalists critical of them.

In his deceitful populist rhetoric, "Pedro" moves between mockery of the law and permanent nonsense, accusing everyone but himself of all evil (known in psychology as projection). He creates himself as a victim of "sanchismo", a man humiliated and harassed by 90% of the media, who, leaving aside his personal preferences and even those of his party, has sacrificed everything for the "greater good" of his beloved homeland. Thus, for the "love of his country", this defender of the free media, who talks so much about the spectre of "trumpism" (the discourse used by Donald Trump to attack all independent media, which he accused of lying and spreading fake news), does not retreat from denouncing the fourth estate and independent demoscopic centres when they stand in opposition to the ruling party line. He does this, of course, out of a sense of patriotism, because "Spain is in need" and Sánchez, after all, distinguishes between political criticism and personal attack... and believes that one must be sympathetic when "statesmen" try to do their best and fail. After all, everything Pedro Sánchez has done in the last five years is progressive, and all critics of the radical left and communists are fascists.

At the end of the election campaign, the socialists and "the great Pedro", seeing that the mechanical repetition of theories about the anti-Sanchez bubble (designed to conceal the great civilisational achievements of the government) was counterproductive, and that every nervous and desperate attempt to defend the PSOE/Podemos governments was like a leaf spinning in nothingness falling on the ground of cynicism, contrived that they had to transform themselves 180 degrees, especially as their policies, contrary to the government's propaganda, were beginning to totter in the foundations. As the Russians say: "wsio po plan, no plan mieniajetsa po chodu". Hence everything goes according to plan, only the plan changes along the way. They recalled the old truth that gestures to the masses are important in constructing a political narrative and decided to turn to the millions of their "hated" hetero patriarchy and solicit their votes because, to paraphrase Sánchez, "this is not just any election and competition between parties, we are playing here for something much more serious": a seat in La Moncloa, numerous privileges and juicy salaries. The strategy that the PSOE's "hard-heads" had hastily devised against the "machistas" was supposed to be trivially simple and consist in telling them that they were "better than their PP/Vox" leaders, and therefore they must, "for the duration of the elections, forget" all the resentments and animosities they held towards the fanatical left, because the moment is eternal and Spain "must move forward", continuing to create "pioneering laws" that are a reference for the whole world. The latest polls seem to contradict this and give an absolute majority to the right in Sunday's 23 July elections. (Article 69.7 of the Spanish Electoral Law (LOREG) establishes "the prohibition of publishing, disseminating, or reproducing electoral polls by any means of communication during the five days preceding the voting day." This practice is unique to Spain, an exception on a worldwide scale and affects the right to information because it generates "unjust situations". The decision to ban the publication of polls in the last week before elections dates back to 1985.)

Nonetheless, in the Iberian Peninsula, every electoral scenario appears to be conceivable. One gets the impression that the Spanish Workers' Party and the Communists are operating in a universe different from the rest of the world, first ignoring the opinions of the international courts and now, as it turns out, the demoscopic labs and their own citizens. The manipulation and political schizophrenia of the caricatural Left, because the PSOE has long ceased to be a left-wing party, as Guerra, who I have already quoted, has said and written about many times. Therefore, it is now easier to imagine that Pedro Sánchez was impersonated by a cyborg. Or even that he himself, assuming that the time of sanchismo is over, has decided to position himself as the most militant anti-sanchist. It is a brave and demanding decision to stop being Don Quixote: to be yourself, exactly as you are. It is necessary to show only the worst qualities attributed to him by his opponents, these "anti-sanchists", and to raise it all to the power.

For how else to explain to the people that in the last five years Sánchez has turned Spain into a space of impunity where the perpetrator receives a reward and the victim receives humiliation. How to defend the policies of the PSOE/Podemos, which aim to destroy human nature and build a world of alienated people. It is also difficult to comment on the more than 254,000 normative acts introduced into the legal system of the Kingdom of Spain since Sánchez became Prime Minister (which means an average of 814 laws, regulations and decrees per day). This is more than any government since Franco's dictatorship has adopted. If one assumes, as those in power claim, that this was to bring "social happiness and abundance", then one must ask about the issue of legal certainty understood as an essential value of the rule of law. At the same time, it would be reasonable to ask a question relating to the principle of resolving cases when, in the legislation of the "equality of the new generation of feminists", children have the right to have a sexual encounter with whomever they please, as long as they give their consent, can take hormones and change their sex without medical advice or parental authorisation, while at the same time the perpetrators of the most serious sexual crimes are given freedom and a sense of impunity (in parallel, the innocent touching of a child on the arm is treated as paedophilic behaviour and severely criminalised). Not to mention the law of "automatic denial" of father-child contact due to the mere fact of a complaint of violence made by the mother, which leads to the unconditional criminalisation of men and violates the presumption of their innocence; or the legal prohibition of the use of the term "parental alienation syndrome" under penalty of criminal sanctions.

Contrary to the general satisfaction of socialist leaders, all these "vanguard" laws, have only amounted to the politicisation of minors. Children and youth, as the weakest link in society, instead of being protected, have been reduced to the function of an object, and priority has been given to ideology or, in the words of the legislators, feminist justice. No one has taken into account the emotional and psychological damage that these laws will cause to children affected by such inquisitorial procedures. On the other hand, coup leaders, demoralised political thieves and rapists are the beneficiaries of Pedro Sánchez's policies.

Although the current political culture in Spanish society has made possible the success, however relative, of this way of being and acting, no propaganda can hide the truth of PSOE/Podemos rule. To paraphrase John Paul II, may the day of 23 July go down in Spanish history, may the Spirit descend and renew the face of the earth, this earth! For everything has an end. There comes a time when even the predilection of Pedro Sánchez and Irene Montero, Yolanda Díaz, Ione Belarra, Teresa Ribera or Pablo Iglesias for lies begins to tire.

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