Sánchez and Lula called on the UN to mobilize and join forces against extremism and hoaxes

2024-09-24 23:11:59

“We face powerful enemies, with significant financial resourceswhich feeds contact networks on a global scale.” Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchezled together with Brazilian Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a conference similar to the UN General Assembly focused on the greatest threat in the world. French President, Emmanuel Macron; of Chile, Gabriel Boric; The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and the President of the European Commission, Charles Michel, participated in the meeting called “In defense of democracy.”

Sánchez and Lula called in their interventions to join forces to face the common problem and they recommended new meetings in which to face this issue.

“Is this the first of many meetings to coordinate the global response to a global event, Sánchez said through his account on X. “We must respond to the enemies of democracy with the same firmness and the same solidarity that they used to undermine it.

Director General Regrets”systemic attacks of reactionary waves” to the democratic government around the world by taking advantage of the factors that have created an unequal society on the basis of misinformation and spreading hate speech.

For this, he defended the Democratic Quality Plan approved by the Spanish Government last week, with a series of measures to fight against information and promote transparency and responsibility of the media. For Sánchez, the rise of right-wing movements is for a good reason international program among its promoters and their political leaders. “We are facing – he added – powerful enemies with significant financial resources maintaining contact networks on a global scale.”

He regrets that these movements do not recognize the election results, reject science and climate change, manipulate ideas such as freedom and promote hatred, racism and hatred while questioning the participation of women in politics and affairs. – economic and they try to dehumanize the political enemy.

“We have to mobilizewe have to work together to defend democracy in all forums, on all possible platforms,” ​​he said and added: “to the enemies of democracy we must respond to them with the same tenacity and the same coalition they use to undermine democracy.

Lula’s position

For the Brazilian president, liberal democracy has become an easy target “false stories” of the extreme right, as shown by the experience in his own country where radical Bolsonarism tried to carry out a coup on January 8, 2023.

Lula warned, however, that hunger and poor working conditions became a “prelude” to the adoption of authoritarian measures. The extreme right became “electorally viable” because, said the Brazilian, he managed to organize the dissatisfied, but “extended the limits” of democratic institutions. “A model that works for big companies and leaves workers to their fate is not a democracy. A government system that favors white men and harms black women is immoral. Many for few and hunger for many in the 21st Century is a precursor to totalitarianism,” he added. Lula emphasized this: giving to “right-wing” narratives is “fall into the trap.” Going back, meanwhile, “will not appease the violent reach of those who attack democracy to silence and eliminate rights.”

Finally, he commented not only on the attempted violent attack against him but also on the attack on the North American Congress by the Trumpists. “In Brazil and America, the forces comics have promoted violent actss to address the results of the election. In Latin America, fake news destroys trust and affects electoral processes. In Europe, the explosive mix of racism, xenophobia and exclusionary campaigns threatens diversity and pluralism.”