“Hostages” and “traitors”: the complaint of the MEPs against the attack on Sánchez’s democracy

2023-11-22 20:42:10

“The amnesty law that President Pedro Sánchez wants to approve is a betrayal of the Spanish peopleto the Commission, to the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.” This is how the intervention of the Vox MEP began, Nice Aguilarin the debate on the threats to the rule of law in Spain that the Amnesty Lawheld this Wednesday in the plenary session of the European Parliament.

“To remain president of the Spanish Government, Mr. Sánchez has not hesitated at all to align himself and make a pact with the enemies of Spain: with the Catalan independentists who carried out a coup d’état,” he denounced. If the Amnesty law goes ahead, Aguilar warned, “not only will this crime not exist, but they will persist in having their independence for which, by the way, we will pay the price. rest”.

Aguilar has also warned that “democracy in Spain is in danger” and the European Union cannot doubt “not even for a moment” that this law “not only wants to destroy Spain, but will be a torpedo under the waterline of Europe“, it is finished.

“Hostages” of the secessionists

For her part, the MEP representing Cs, Love Pagazaurtundúa, has intervened from the bench to reproach the socialists that there is something “much worse than giving impunity in exchange for 7 votes.” According to Pagaza, “the big problem is that the socialists They have agreed with the Catalan secessionists and they don’t have it. It is not a democratic deficit, it is a problem of exclusive identitarianism and rancid populism,” he denounced. “And the problem when you are proven right is that you (the PSOE) now they are your hostages“.

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“First there were the pardons, those pardons that Tomás y Valiente would never have appreciated because there was no repentance in the modification of the Penal Code to weaken embezzlement or eliminate sedition to make us weaker. And now, large-scale impunity and what comes from behind: a fraudulent constitutional mutation. Because the Constitution can be changed, yes, but not by going against the laws and against the will of the majority of Spaniards,” Pagaza stated.

Also the Portuguese MEP from the PSD, Paulo Rangelhas harshly attacked Sánchez’s Government, which he accuses of being “the state of 1984 of George Orwell” due to the parliamentary commissions to investigate the judiciary. “I will never accept in my life that it is a democracy,” he stated bluntly.

Violations of the rule of law by the Sanchéz Government are not an internal matter for Spain. They are a European issue. From threat to universal values.

The European Commission must act!#SpainNoSeRinde pic.twitter.com/G7ZG73SJlH

— Paulo Rangel (@PauloRangel_pt) November 22, 2023

He has also pointed out that the Amnesty Law is “a systemic violation of the rule of law” and has addressed his socialist “colleagues” and the Greens to guarantee “respect for the separation of powers and justice.”