Spanish here. You're overtly exaggerating, Spain is not becoming a dictatorship. This is the right and far-right having a tantrum because they've not been able to secure a government. Go spread your propaganda elsewhere.
It is very sad that the US Government cannot be trusted but this is not the first time this has happened, the German Chancellor's phone was tapped.
On the other hand Spain started a revolutionary process of a constituent nature, the government of President Sanchez is already of a clearly totalitarian type.
Spanish here also. Tell me any of this is propaganda, along the last 5 years.
No, this is not what I am talking about. I am talking about putting all people from a single party in absolutely all powers and institutions, making a law for 7 votes to govern and claim an illegal amnistey and after that, the plan is to pass it through, to say the Constitution is dead (which requires, in theory 2/3 or 3/5 of the chamber support to be changed) and do it on an illegal backdoor.
Of course, those changes are going to be what less than half of the people want and in the electoral program none of that was announced (I mean for the amnesty, there are things there that are pre-amnesty, past government, but they already started to move).
There is a person negotiating how to put himself out of jail because our president needed 7 votes. I mean, it is as if I was negotiating to not enter the jail because I commit a crime because the authority on the other side needs something from me.
Institutions where he already put his people:
- Fiscal General del Estado (Dolores Delgado, was a minister of socialist party) Responsible for pushing forward or not criminal causes against depending who.
- Correos (important for the mail vote) a very good friend of his.
- Supreme court (Conde-Pumpido), a socialist.
- Indra, company counting the votes, there were moves to put a majority of the board from the socialist party.
- Agencia EFE (a few days ago): for news, public agency. A socialist friend of his, well-known for flattering the party since ever and working in the pro-socialist media groups El Pais and Cadena Ser (Grupo Prisa) and Cuatro when it was Grupo Prisa (not anymore, now it is Media Set)
- CIS, the national organism for surveys... who publishes the surveys for many topics, they manipulate the sentences to torture them to say what they want (in the question there is the trick) and publish national surveys for elections vote intention.
- TVE (spanish television): they had for over a year (two?) a "unique administrator" which is a total abnormality, Rosa María Mateos, during the pandemic. Socialist, of course.
- During the pandemic: a person filtering, in our faces, what topics and questions were asked in the "press conferences" if you can call it like that. For me it smelled more to discretional selection and censorship. They usually took questions from tiny regional media with priority to the national ones that everyone reads... Yes, a filter: I tell you who and what can be asked.
- During the pandemic: 6 months the parlament closed. 2 illegal lockdowns (declared by the court), no consequences.
- Now they are trying to put a socialist majority in the CGPJ (Consejo General del Poder Judicial) so that the illegal amnesty gets through.
- Law for "freedom of speech" for influencers, so that they can be prosecuted more easily depending on what they say... promoted by the unions that support them (UGT, Comisiones obreras).
- There is a bunch of "institutional advertisement" by which newspapers get a bunch of money per year directly from the government. Do you think they are independent after this? Do not make me laugh... 554 millions... https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/maquinaria-sanchez-dispara-...
And there is plenty, plenty more.
There was even a scandal where Delcy Rodriguez, with forbidden entry to Europe for narcotrafic, from Venezuela, came with 40 suitcases that god knows what they contained, entered without a passport stamp (obviously) and those suitcases we do not have even an explanation yet... what happened? Nothing. They lied about it. Nothing happened, to noone: https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/politica/embajada-venezuela...
Believe me, they are building a dictatorship. It is not about minorities governing, it is about controlling absolutely all information flow, all opinion, and workarounding any "balance and check".
I do not want to start an argument. Go to the facts. This all has happened.
That's a bit of an over-simplification of what actually happened these weeks. Or a tremendous over-simplification, rather.
Not that I really care about the outcome (two parties could've won, and they are both progressive, so I will be unhappy either way), but the methods have crossed a few red lines.
might be an over-simplification but is right.
Every year there are "indultos" (pardons?) happening, the famous Aznar's ones[1], and Rajoy's infamous "aministia fiscal"[2] but I guess is only now when it's convenient to push that narrative, no protests whatsoever for the other cases.
Amnistia for tax evaders, it is democracy.
Amnistia for those protesting making a performance-like referedum (everyone knew it would not actual effect), that's not democracy.
It's a logic that I can not comprehend, I only can explain it if you consume so much mass media that you actually believe everything that is thrown at you.
I am a close relative of a judge. I have asked plenty of non-media questions to get an idea of how our system works, should work and what does not work and did not for a long time (and now we have problems because the situation changed).
By the way, I am not against independence FWIW. It is just the way things have been conducted are very aggraviating.
It's not the same when you do it because you need it to be the president.
I don't agree with pardons; it's something that simply shouldn't exist in this day and age. It doesn't matter to me what brand of progressivism does it.
