Governing without legislative power: Pedro Sánchez is announcing a dictatorship

In recent decades, socialism has established dictatorships in countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and now Brazil as well.

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The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), led by Pedro Sánchez, has never condemned these dictatorships or the communist dictatorship in Cuba, which has governed the country for 65 years with a single-party regime and violated human rights. On the contrary, in recent years Sánchez has dedicated himself to imitating Venezuelan socialism with attacks on judges and free media, in an attempt to prevent socialist corruption in Spain from being investigated.

Yesterday, Sánchez took another step in his quest to become an autocrat. In a speech delivered before the federal committee of his party, and after outlining his political agenda, the current president of the Spanish government announced the following:

"We are going to move forward with determination on this agenda with or without the support of the opposition, with or without the participation of a legislative branch, which necessarily has to be more constructive and less restrictive."

Here you can hear Sanchez saying those words (the video is Spanish, you can activate automatic subtitles in English in the bottom bar of the player):

With this statement, what Pedro Sánchez is doing is announcing a dictatorship. In a democracy, the legislative power is the one that approves the laws and exercises the task of controlling the government. What Sánchez intends is to govern by decree and without being accountable to parliament, like a dictator. He wants a legislative power that agrees with him and that does not put any limits on him (that is what he means when he asks that it not be "restrictive") or he will do without it, as the dictator Nicolás Maduro already did in Venezuela.

In Spain, the legislative power is made up of the Congress and the Senate. In both chambers the PSOE is in the minority, after losing the 2023 general elections. In Congress, the winning party was the PP, with 137 of the 350 seats. That same party has an absolute majority in the Senate, with 120 of the 208 senators. Thus, the party that announces that it will govern without parliament is the one that lost the elections last year, a party that, if it governs, it is thanks to the support of communists and separatists, support bought with the money of all Spaniards and with concessions such as the amnesty law or Catalan fiscal autonomy, concessions that violate the Constitution.

Article 66 of the Spanish Constitution states that Congress and the Senate "represent the Spanish people", that they are inviolable and that they "exercise the legislative power of the State, approve its Budgets, control the actions of the Government and have other powers attributed to them by the Constitution." Thus, Sánchez intends to govern without being accountable to the representatives of the Spanish people: a clear example of despotism on the part of an unscrupulous politician who believes that anything goes to stay in power and satisfy his desires.

Pedro Sánchez’s words demonstrate the authoritarian drive of socialism and its contempt for democracy, an attitude that this hateful ideology has displayed numerous times in the last century and which is becoming very clear in the Venezuelan dictatorship, which is the regime that Sánchez seems to have taken as a reference, a dictatorship that has been actively supported by Sánchez’s predecessor at the head of the PSOE, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. If we Spaniards do not react, we will end up like the Venezuelans: sunk by the socialists in misery and oppression.

This Saturday, the PP spokesman in Congress, Miguel Tellado, commented on Sánchez's words, pointing out: "His political objective is to entrench himself in power and corner the rest of the powers of the State." Tellado added that Sánchez "has become a threat to our democracy." In turn, the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, stated: "What will be next for the supreme tyrant of La Moncloa? Say that he will remain in power whether he wins or loses the elections? The PP is and will be an accomplice of this emulator of Kim Jong-un as long as he continues to negotiate everything with him."

Finally, after this announcement of a blow to democracy in Spain, what else has to happen for the European Commission to denounce Sánchez's authoritarian drift? What else has to happen for the European People's Party to break its coalition with the socialists in Brussels? What kind of "European values" is the EPP defending by allying itself with those who want to turn Spain into a dictatorship?

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Photo: PSOE.