2023-11-26 04:03:56
A doubt has run through the universe of the Spanish right this week like ice descending down the spine. If the absolute majority of the PP in the Senate has not been able to stop the change of the logo approved by the PSOE in the previous legislature, how are they going to hinder the amnesty law in that chamber? If they have tolerated the replacement of Spain’s coat of arms with the profile of any shopping center, with its little flag announcing sales, will they be able to face the biggest challenge to democracy since 1981?
The PP’s strengths against the amnesty law, which undermines the constitutional order, are not very encouraging. Their attack begins in the European Parliament, a chamber more concerned about the time that children spend playing video games than about the attack on the rule of law in Spain. This Wednesday, when the matter was debated in Strasbourg, the Spanish Popular Party showed that they have not had enough strength for the major authorities to be present. They only managed to gather a third of the MEPs. Their Lordships had more important things to do, surely. Reynders, yes, was there, he put his hands to his head, promised to take note, and then moved on to something else.
After this blunder, the PP will continue the attack in Congress. The PSOE is already trembling because they are going to ask the Chamber Board to reconsider the processing of the amnesty law. It is worth remembering here that the PP was divided with the PSOE and Sumar the positions of said Table, leaving Vox out. This caused Abascal’s deputies not to vote for Cuca Gamarra to preside over Congress. Good example of how partisanship is the enemy of democracy. Then the PP’s plan is to go to the Constitutional Court. Yes, the same one who elected Conde Pumpido as president in January 2023 to impose the Sanchista will. The PP’s hope is that the TC will put some impediment. Well, it’s like sitting in the bush waiting for a unicorn to pass by.
The last step of the PP is the institutional clash. He wants to show that there is a difference between institutions infected with sanchismo and democratic ones. The first area of battle will be the Senate, but the popular ones fear that the Senior Lawyer of the Upper House will follow the dictates of his counterpart in the Lower House, as it has always been. If it is processed, all that remains is for the senators to pull the reformed regulations to prolong the debate, bring in jurists, and mount such a debate that public opinion knows that the amnesty is the beginning of the end of the constitutional order. But this is already known.
However, do not think that Vox can replace the PP, or alleviate its deficiencies. In a strange strategy they have committed themselves to what they call “National November”, which consists of creating a fuss in front of the PSOE headquarters, especially in Ferraz. They have brought in a North American specialist in tumults salable in the media, and little else. This plan doesn’t work. Last Friday, the 24th, their union, called “Solidarity”, called workers to a general strike. I imagine the reader didn’t even know it. Well it was another fiasco.
Helplessness is the worst thing that can happen to a citizen who feels their democracy is in danger. The impotence in the face of the supremacy of the legislative over the judicial is manifest. The feeling that nothing can be done against this usurping parliamentary sovereignty, which tends to approve laws enabling a suicidal Government, is palpable in the world of the right. People who repudiate this authoritarian drift want to cling to an institution or a party. He is asking these politicians to wake up, because it gives the impression that they are only seeking to adapt to the new situation and survive. Meanwhile, without these parties taking any notice, civil society holds events and conferences everywhere to protest. There must be a reason.
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