2024-10-24 05:15:00
Isabel Díaz Ayuso is convinced of this Spain “is experiencing the worst institutional moment in its democratic history” AND? “it’s already a police state“ because the central government “is exercising excessive and authoritarian control over citizens”.
She stated this on Wednesday in her speech at the 2024 Influyentes Awards. The president of the Community of Madrid explained that “in a police state, civil rights and liberties are limited and the authorities have the ability to monitor, repress and punish citizens “. population with little or no judicial supervision” and which already is in our country “practices such as mass surveillance, censorship and repression of dissent are used to maintain justice”.
To give an example, Ayuso referred to the case of his partner, Alberto González Amador: “A private citizen who saw his statement cut out and conveniently published in a ridiculous way – which is completely illegal – for being the boyfriend of a political opponent“This is a police state,” he concluded, adding that the Interior Ministry “will choose the police officers who will investigate judicial cases.”
“From today, Spanish television, the public one, is totally gagged by political control. The central government will enrich the audiovisual companies that will be in charge of offering their programs on other television stations. There is the example of the series of the wedding of President Pedro Sánchez,” he said.
“This damages the company and our image”
Ayuso also warned that “common characteristics of a police state include extreme surveillance, the use of technologies to surveil and monitor citizens’ activities, political repression, persecution and punishment of dissidents and government critics“.
“They also include a absence of civil rights, significant restrictions on freedom of expression, assembly and the presslimited judicial intervention, the judiciary does not act independently or attempt to control it to support the actions of the Executive,” he said.
These practices, as he warned, “have devastated democracy in many Latin American countries.” And “it damages the company, investments and our image in the world”. “It’s happening in Spain. I understand that there are those who can’t or don’t want to see it and don’t, but many of us have already felt it“, he settled down.
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