On the border of dictatorship

A politician amnesties other politicians to stay in power. This is the state of the question and the question of state. Spain's real problem. The lions in Congress roar because unity and equality are in danger. Maximum corruption. 

Amnesty is the delegitimisation of the rule of law, the end of the separation of powers, the annulment of the first three articles of the Magna Carta and the return to the popular democracies that fell with the Berlin Wall in '89. 

The Constitution does not allow amnesty any more than it allows self-determination or slavery. Investigating Sánchez will have consequences. His silence has been clamorous. He who is silent, grants.  

The adventure of the candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo is over. The Pedro Sánchez Pérez Castejón era is extended for 60 days and 59 nights: we are entering autocracy, the prelude to dictatorship. Four years in office would be lethal for Spaniards. 

Parliamentary mathematics admits no doubt. Two votes and the last rigged result: 172-177 and 1 void.  A certain Puyol, from Junts, voted yes... but it turned out to be null and void ten minutes after consultations in the Bureau. The parliamentary VAR, screwing up the Rules of Procedure.  The president's impartiality is manifest. How can a yes vote be considered null and void? There is no room for interpretation when you say yes. One thought one had seen everything in the Hemicycle, but last week we witnessed a reversal of logic. First, they imposed the earpieces, then they debated the reform of the Rules of Procedure and finally they approved it. Is this not a fraud of the law? 

Another new ingredient in the temple of freedom: prior censorship for the future. History will take its toll on Sanchismo.  

Its time has come; the Popular Front is consolidated. The head of the opposition proclaimed himself heir to the Transition of '78; the socialist aspirant returns to the trenches of civil war. Manuel Azaña's amnesty for the 6 October 34 coup perpetrators (Companys) has been transformed by the social-communist government of the doctor of economics into a criminal relief to forget the illegal referendum of 1 October 2017.  

The Parliamentary agreement between ERC and Junts demanding the incumbent government to pay in advance with the amnesty and in deferred with the independence consultation, the "Catalan couonazo", the historical debt of 456,000 million euros and two hard-boiled eggs!!! is almost ready. The departure of the ESF from the northeast has had a calculated response from PSOE and PSC: dialogue, encounter, coexistence. Hollow words.  

We are entering a time of discount until 29 November. Either a government of lies or a repeat election.  

I am inclined towards the former: this acting Executive is not legitimised to accept this amnesty and the rest of the blackmail because it is unconstitutional and because they proclaimed the opposite in the elections. Of course, Sánchez will say that he has not lied, that it is a simple change of opinion. As Emiliano García Page has said, Moncloa is negotiating with constitutional criminals.  

The essential loser 

The PP president has lost the investiture, but he has invested in the future. He has strengthened his leadership. His tone has been presidential. He does not have the charisma of Suárez or the seduction of González. No, he doesn't, but his Galician retranca and his political punch in the directs has allowed him to weather all the waves in the ocean of a perfect storm. And he has come out unscathed. He is way above the average of the usual politicians.  

A political star is born. He has seized his moment and his opportunity. We have discovered a statesman. Even the orphans of the CDS, UPyD and Ciudadanos have felt integrated into his centrist and moderate discourse. 

Feijóo has left these two key questions in the chamber: amnesty, yes or no, referendum, yes or no?  On the blue bench, the acting president remained silent as a dead man. The answer is simple: amnesty, yes; referendum, too. The revolutionary project is still underway.  

The popular leader has presented a government programme adjusted to the reality of a country where 25% of citizens do not make half a month's salary. He has offered six state pacts and not even the drought agreement has been accepted in a Spain dying of thirst. Even Cuca Gamarra did well in her two speeches defending her boss and her 137 fellow travellers. Her final plea was not to be missed: yes to dignity, yes to equality, yes to freedom and yes to Spain. Don Alberto continues to be the great hope for change for 8.5 million Spaniards. 

Time for Sánchez 

All PSOE representatives have forgotten the word amnesty. Forbidden to mention it like the word crisis in Zapatero's time. Until it blew up in his face while he insulted us in a five-star hotel calling us unpatriotic. The countdown has begun. The evil is done. And given the debate, it doesn't seem that the popular leader has wasted any time.  

Shameful what has been seen on Roures's television, master of the signal and of the parliamentary session. The image of the Congress has been pitiful. He has tired to get the applause of the popular bench to his first militant and has avoided exposing the Bélmez faces of the blue bench. The expressions of the acting president have confirmed that everything slips him. Absolutely everything. His attitude is unbecoming of a democrat.  

The King of Spain, harassed on social networks for the last 15 days, will once again receive the parliamentary spokespersons who deign to come to La Zarzuela to ask the PSOE candidate to form a new government. With how many votes? That same day - perhaps on Wednesday - he will break his complicit silence with his fellow travellers towards the abyss and address the plebs "urbi et orbi" as the "people's president". Like Chávez and Maduro. No questions asked, of course.  

He will try to convince us that the "merciful era" of his viceroyalty has begun and that the legal advisors of ERC, Junts, Bildu and the "40 of Ayete" (of Sumar) have assured him, with Enrique Santiago of the PCE and guide of the FARC that the amnesty fits in the Constitution. And then they will make the referendum fit.  

Let's get ready for an unprecedented propaganda campaign by land, sea, air and outer space. And anyone who disagrees will be an extreme right-wing fascist and will not be allowed to enter the kingdom of progressivism until 2050. If you are not progressive you are politically dead.  

Progressives like Puigdemont, reconverted into a social democrat; progressives like Ortúzar, of the rancid PNV, ("God and old laws"), like the reconverted charnego Rufián (ERC) or like the Bildu lady (Mertxe Aispurúa) condemned for apology of terrorism. A team of top progressives in the style of the Valladolid thug Oscar Puente, who described the PP as drug traffickers and Aznar as the instigator of the 11-M bombing. Is Puente a grandson of "Homo Antecessor"? 

Just ask the mayor of Madrid, J.L. Martínez Almeida, who was rebuked by the progressive councillor Daniel Viondi in the plenary session of the City Council, threatening him with three slaps on the face because "he was making a mistake".  

Viondi is the president's basketball teammate. He has been living off the public purse for 15 years and because of his vehement character - Lobato dixit - he was allowed to threaten a podemite deputy in the Madrid Assembly with this Sicilian warning: "I'm going to rip your head off". It was not enough for him to cut it off with a slash.  It remains to be seen where Sánchez will relocate him after his dismissal for services rendered: in the Moncloa? in Ferraz? in Correos? in SEPI? in the RFEF? in the CSD? Keep an eye on the BOE. Puente, Viondi, Tito Berni... this is the new PSOE of the people. 

Meanwhile, Mr. Sanchez appears before his European cronies to say that "soon there will be a socialist-communist government because the rest is all extreme right" Is there anything more ultra than his canastero friend Viondi? To whom twelve years ago he sent a Rajoy-Bárcenas-style post: he did not say "resist, be strong" but "give it to him hard". He will know to whom. 

And, at the same time, word spreads that PP-VOX generate division, violence, rupture of society, confrontation... Sánchez follows the doctrine of Puebla, contaminating the language and inculcating hatred. They are even capable of approving by Decree Law the right to hate.  A new conquest for the progressive social majority. 

It is necessary to provoke more tension than ever so that we swallow the amnesty potion in 24/7 doses as Zapatero did from 2004 to 2011.  

The spectre of "yes is yes"

The seriousness of the government's negotiations with constitutional criminals has no limits or red lines. Anything goes to stay in power. It has already paid in advance, the implementation of the "pinganillos en el congreso". (Only translated into Spanish, the common language). Marlasca's order for Europol to remove the CDR terrorists from its lists. Puigdemont has managed to get the EEA minister, whose name I don't want to remember, to crawl to the EU partners to allow Catalan, Basque and Galician to be used as official languages of the Parliament and the Council "paying all the expenses, of course".  

The amnesty is one more step in the pre-emptive surrender to separatists and terrorists that will culminate simultaneously in referendums in the Basque Country and Catalonia. All the pressure is on the judges and magistrates of the Supreme Court, the CGPJ and the TC. The Court of Guarantees, with Conde Pumpido at its head, is in no doubt: it will say that everything is constitutional. In the Supreme Court, both the PNV and the Catalan coup plotters have already called for the "fistfuls" and the head of Judge Llarena, instructor of the 1-0 case, as an urgent and necessary measure.  

The state attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, has already declared that the amnesty is a political problem, not a legal one. This is how the Public Prosecutor's Office defends the rule of law. Another close friend of Garzón and his wife.  

With this background, and with the processing of a non-legislative proposal, the amnesty will not enjoy the prior opinions of the Council of State, the State Attorney's Office, the SC and the General Council of the Judiciary.  

Without controls, Pedro Sánchez will muddy all the media and legal ground so that the amnesty can go ahead without listening to González or Guerra. But the seriousness of this initiative goes beyond that and will have unforeseeable collateral effects. Later they will call them "undesired effects". 

We could find that many prison inmates could take advantage of the measure and ask for compensation. Bildu will demand that its prisoners be considered "political prisoners" and be released from prison immediately.  

He who dared to repeal the crimes of sedition, to lower those of embezzlement of public funds, who pardoned the coup perpetrators, now argues that what happened on 1-0/2017, which culminated in the proclamation of the independence of Catalonia for 8 seconds, should never have been prosecuted. "It was only a political crisis", he now argues after describing it as a secession.  And, therefore, it needs political solutions. This is the fallacy, the main lie of the propaganda bombardment to justify its treason and felony. 

The "beneficiaries" of this penal relief could amount to some 5,000 criminals without counting the ETA members and the militants of the guerrilla army of the Free Galician People. The cracks that the text will leave open will allow hundreds of criminals to go out on the streets in dribs and drabs, as happened with the "yes is yes" law, reformed thanks to the votes of the PP. 

A while ago I was listening to a Cataliban loudly demanding a political amnesty for Puigdemont and his followers (it will also reach Junqueras and his friends), citing the tax amnesties of the PP and the PSOE.  

The direct question to Don Pedro is already written in the air: will there also be amnesty for paedophiles, drug traffickers, gang rapists and abusers? Will it include Rubiales, Griñán and Villén, the Andalusian brothel owner? 

Why not include the distributors of Fentanyl, that cheap drug that has already reached Malaga, Barcelona and Madrid? It is sold at the same price as in the United States and Canada, at three euros a pill.  

Don Benito Pérez Galdós wrote that what is foreseen never happens. He did not know Don Pedro Sánchez, also Pérez and Castejón. The president always surprises, whether invested or in office.  

An unequal debate 

I have to admit that I swallowed the whole debate. Partly because of professional deformation - I have lived in Congress and the Senate for almost two decades - and to a lesser extent because of the degradation of our democracy. The regression is evident.  

Feijóo's discovery reconciles us with the best period of our lives. We can expect nothing from the left in this country. I thought they were anchored in the fall of the Wall, but no, I was wrong; they are still in the revolution of the 17 past Havana, Caracas and Buenos Aires. They are hopeless as long as Yolanda, the one with the rockets, continues to kneel, giving in to insatiable nationalism.  

Mr Núñez's demonstration in Madrid on the 24th gave him the wings to pass with flying colours in his first term in the Congress of Deputies.   

The candidate's initial speech was correct. He improved in his replies to his opponents. He managed to answer the PNV and Bildu in the same package. He elegantly disparaged the Basque nationalists. The bravest phrase was dedicated to the heirs of ETA. "I don't accept your votes; for Sánchez". He uncovered the decadence of the meapilas peneuvistas.  

He lampooned ERC and Junts by dismantling their lies to such an extent that Rufián and Nogueras, respectively, were unable to spend their 10 minutes of reply.  

Of particular note were the two interventions by UPN deputy Alberto Catalán. A worthy successor to SergioSayas and Carlos García Adanero. Brave. A whip for the Bilduetarras, whom he accused of having terrorists on their lists in the May elections.  

Abascal and Feijóo signed peace for the legislature. It was about time after the spectacle of Aragón, Extremadura and Murcia. The VOX leader was especially hard on Sánchez - "you are the most corrupt president of democracy", he said, although they were withdrawn by the president.  

Sumar's spokeswoman is a package deal. She wasted most of her time showing a blank photo of the fathers of the Constitution with no women in it. She gave way to Enrique Santiago, a lifelong communist, who did talk about amnesty.   To dogmatise that it fits in the Constitution. It seemed as if we were listening to Fidel Castro in his decline. Or worse: that we were witnessing the Politburo of the times of the State. The podemite mourners Belarra and Montero are discovering who Yoli is, the one with the Etruscan smile, great defender of the corrupt Cristina F. de Kirchner. 

The absence of the incumbent president has been an unprecedented provocation. To despise his opponent to the point of humiliation and to outrage the institutions is typical of this tyrant from San Miguel without a shred of nobility. The cries of "coward, coward!" were hard-earned as he wanted to disappear inside his mobile phone. In two words: parliamentary sabotage. Despite his cockiness, he was not able to break the debate with his silence. It was not enough. He will pay for it later than ever. We will not forgive him. "No way", as Ayuso would say.  

On his behalf, the silent one sent Oscar Puente, ex-mayor of Valladolid and veteran "macarra" as Pablo Iglesias has described him. Did you write this speech, Núñez Feijóo said to him with retranca Núñez Feijóo. Don Óscar was not a bridge but a wall. With this dirty work he is guaranteed a seat on the January lists. 

It was clear that the story had been prepared in the Moncloa Factory with lies. His aggressive - almost violent - tone foreshadows the mood of this 15th Legislature. We are all fascists and ultra-right-wingers for these weekend Leninists.  

Feijóo turned his failure into a success of ethics and dignity. He has made the Sanchista investiture more expensive. 

Express investiture 

The Moncloa will speed up the timetable as much as possible; this week will be decisive and the macro-holiday of El Pilar will provide a respite. I sincerely believe that, contrary to what ERC and Junts have tried to visualise, the pressure on the PSOE is fictitious. A three-way macro-lie.   

They have been negotiating since 23 July and they are all in the same boat. Government and Popular Front. None of them are interested in the elections because the coup plotters have got the worst results in their history. It is just an excuse to show up on October 1 in the streets of Barcelona claiming that the pro-independence dream is still alive so that ANC and Ómnium Cultural continue to support them while they receive millionaire subsidies.  

The mere parliamentary processing of the amnesty - whatever it is called - will make the investiture possible with the votes of everyone, including the PNV.  

This is the most serious moment for Spanish democracy. Sánchez is out of control. His goal is the same: to prevent alternation in power. We have a magnificent leader of the Opposition. A leader well above average. Solvent. Trustworthy. Now that he has consolidated his leadership, he needs to clean up his leadership. And appeal to the street. On the 24th in Madrid. On 8 October in Barcelona. The Catalan Civil Society (SCC), the constitutionalists, is calling.  And when the text of the amnesty and that of the referendum is known, we will take to the streets and the squares in order not to lose the rights and duties achieved with the Constitution of 78. The spirit of the Transition is alive.   

Alberto Núñez Feijóo no longer feels the loneliness of the long-distance runner. And he has learned in his first thirteen hours in the Hemicycle that politics is a permanent marathon. 

We are committed to a Spain of free and equal citizens in the face of the revolutionary virus of the 1930s and the return to popular democracies. Communism, death and misery. Sanchismo, as defined by its creator, contains only evil, manipulation and lies. A lot of evil, a lot of manipulation, a lot of lies. 

Let us not think that Europe will come to our aid if the rebels do it again. Neither the EP nor the Commission will lift a finger for the unity of Spain.  

We know that Don Pedro Sánchez is capable of anything. Even to break it after telling us that he has always defended unity. Always, it is too long for the socialist secretary general. 

Between popular democracies (dictatorships) and the Constitution, we choose this path. As Castilian communards we stand for equality and justice because "nobody is more than anybody else". 

We are sure that the second candidate will not change partners. Because he is the first shareholder of the procés. Mr. Sánchez: "Whatever you are going to do, do it quickly". (John 13:27). 

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