Step on the gas

Spanish President Pedro Sanchez with his wife Begoña Gomez at a polling station during the European Parliament elections in Madrid, Spain, on June 9, 2024 - AFP/PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU

Antonio Regalado

20 de junio de 2024 (15:30 h.)

La Moncloa, home of corruption

The president came to power through a motion of censure against PP corruption, encouraged by Judge de Prada and the prevaricator Garzón. The Supreme Court dismantled the hoax of the PP's enrichment "for profit". Too late. Sánchez came to regenerate democracy and the conclusion is that the Moncloa has become the plurinational and republican headquarters of corruption. The socialist leader does not have a problem with the CGPJ. He has a problem with justice.

Begoña Gómez, his wife, is under investigation for conflict of interest and corruption; his brother David Sánchez is also under indictment for crimes against the Treasury, [excessive] savings in the BBVA, teleworking without authorisation from the Badajoz Provincial Council and absences from his job. Living and paying taxes in Portugal is cheaper. But paying social security contributions for your pension is better here. David Azafra is smart. A fraudster is an unpatriotic person, according to the sentence of the brother of the brother of the very brother.

The adventures of Ábalos-Koldo, in the midst of the pandemic, the financing of Air Europa, Illa's unjustified spending on health, the wastefulness in Correos, ADIF, Renfe, European Funds, the Andalusian EREs, "my Maleni", now whitewashed by Conde Pumpido... everything points to a shield of impunity. Like the pact with Sánchez and Junqueras so that the latter can be politically rehabilitated and can run in the Catalan elections in mid-autumn.

If they have pardoned the 1-0/2017 coup perpetrators, why not include embezzlement and terrorism? And by the way, the socialists ask themselves: if we have pardoned and amnestied Puigdemont and Co., why not extend it to our comrades and comrades in Andalusia? Being a socialist or separatist is a sufficient guarantee to be and to feel immune and unpunished before the Penal Code. Socialist corruption is even compatible with honesty, never with honesty.

The actions of the government's attorney general, whose name I do not want to remember, accredit this man from Lumbrales, who is from Salamanca, as the "biggest whipping boy in the Kingdom". Convicted of abuse of power, considered "unfit" by the High Court, he has crystallised into a servile lackey of Don Pedro to save first Lola Delgado, and then Puigdemont. A senior civil servant with the soul of a slave.

Let's hope that the TC condemns him, if appropriate, for disseminating the tax details of Isabel Díaz Ayuso's boyfriend. A textbook crime, punishable by up to 6 years in prison and disqualification. Álvaro García Ortiz has achieved a pyrrhic victory with the collaboration of Garzón's own Lola to exclude the crime of embezzlement in the Amnesty Law, which this former Minister of Justice voted for after being dismissed as a prosecutor.

The Moncloa, without General Budgets for 2024, is the best placement office and the main headquarters of hoaxes and corruption. Sánchez: step on the gas! To orgasm.

Judeo-Masonic conspiracy

In the last plenary session of Congress, the doctor president, reiterated the familiar demons that keep his hatred of freedom and democracy burning. The hoaxes, the slime machine, the "pseudo-media" and the ultra-right-wing international. No one is spared here: PP, Vox and Alvise. If you are not part of the progressive core, you are condemned to be a wandering facha for life.

You have to project a permanent Judeo-Masonic conspiracy as in the best days of La Oprobiosa. One supposition, the Munich conspiracy (1962). Victimism is an essential element to wrap up threats and lies as if they were real truths.

In this scenario, there can never be a shortage of agitators. Rufián, Sánchez's most advanced disciple, is a great "agradaor". And he unblocked the revolving doors for him. "Master" -he told him in Congress- "if you want to put an end to the mud, let's start tomorrow; let's vote here for the members of the CGPJ, let's veto the private media companies that are collaborating in the mud machine and let's raise the fines from 14,000 to 150,000 euros". He failed to suggest that companies that are not addicted to the regime should be gassed with the journalists inside. The president said he would do it. Hard to believe because he never delivers what he promises.

The president is the chief of staff and will appoint the members of the Government of Judges because in the Congress resides the "popular sovereignty" (Bullshit). Both Houses represent "national sovereignty", as the Constitution mandates. The explanation will be simple: "Non-addicted judges are enemies of the people". (Declaration of Puebla).

The press, meanwhile, awaits censorship. With the 400 million annual institutional advertising they can "buy" all the written and digital press that bothers him the most. Broncano's 28 million will be paid by RTVE. Telling the truth is always revolutionary.

The Amnesty Law - the most corrupt law of democracy - has marked the apotheosis of the XV Legislature. The winner (Sánchez) takes it all. Permanent involution will banish democracy from now on.

The algorithm of legitimacy of the institutions will exclude alternation in power. Its aim is for the Popular Front to be the only party, as a Plurinational Republican Movement - (meaning Popular Front) - with a unique press, with unique editorials "a la Catalana" and with a militarised public television a la Intxaurrondo, Broncano and Fortes.

The president, in his delusions of grandeur, was prepared, like his admired Largo Caballero, to enact a law along the lines of the Security Law of the Republic, which confiscated and closed down more than 100 newspapers in barely a year. The year was 1936.

If in less than two weeks he presents these initiatives in Parliament "to put an end to the fascist press" and "strike at the extreme right" we will have entered the darkest period of the Transition: authoritarianism on the road to dictatorship. There is no democracy without freedom of the press.

For all these reasons, it is necessary to keep alive in the collective imagination that the external enemy, the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy, the international far-right is still there against the progressives. Sánchez: step on the gas! As long as you have gas in the engine.

The box and the key

It seemed that all roads led to Illa. But no; they criticised Inés Arrimadas (Ciudadanos) for not standing for investiture with 36 MPs. Don Salvador's PSC (with 42) now "needs more time".

A brave gesture by PSOE, PP and Vox would have been enough to make the absolute majority count and reduce the coup to the minimum expression for the next twenty years. But the PSC is as "necio-nalist" as ERC and Junts. And here is the president, with the pretensions of head of state, paying for the party for the subsidised rebels.

In La Vanguardia, Sánchez has put his money on the Republicans. "Without the role of ERC we would have neither pardons nor amnesty". Ergo, they will have a referendum.

Sánchez bought Puigdemont's last investiture from Puigdemont and now he is trying to buy Illa's from ERC. But the last elections have reduced to ashes those of Junqueras and Rovira, who are desperately looking for a way to remain on the official payroll, via the Generalitat, Barcelona City Council or Provincial Council. Five hundred (500) republican officials in search of a large salary until 2028 to make ends meet. That is the other issue.

Nationalism is the best way for those who have no other way of earning a living to "live off the top". Of course, you have to complain and cry. All the time. If you don't cry, you don't suckle. Victimism is the central axis of the claim. And of business. They resist and they win.

But let's get to the heart of the matter: the box and the key. They demand to break up the Tax Agency, collect all taxes, singular financing, a Basque "cuponazo", an annual write-off of 15 billion, forgiveness of an accumulated debt in the FLA of 79 billion more, that the Government accepts another historical debt of another 454 billion Euros, a referendum of self-determination and the protection of the Catalan language inside and outside the EU. Sánchez always says yes.

He promised that Catalonia's issues would be resolved in Barcelona. But no. The separatists have gone ahead by taking over the parliament. Josep Rull, a man convicted of the October 2017 coup, has taken over the presidency ready to strike the final blow again. They have already disobeyed the TC by admitting the proxy votes of "Putxi" and Puig. An illegal and illegitimate Parliament. But the High Court does not take the matter lying down. Illa is just a puppet of Emperor Peter I the Squanderer.

The government has enshrined inequality and lack of solidarity as unfading values. It has already dismantled the state in Catalonia. It only takes electoral decisions.

This is the true face of the socialist Sánchez. Now he bets for the singular financing against that of the remaining CCAA. Even Page (C-LM) has rebelled against his Secretary General. Those of the PP, starting with the CAM, demand that the Conference of Presidents be convened or, failing that, the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council to explain why Catalonia "robs us so much". With the money we have come up against. With the things to eat. This is as far as we have come. The Extremaduran socialists are also against the fact that the same people always pay for their embassies.

Even the fugitive Puigdemont has shown himself to be against this singular financing described as blackmail. A virtuous blackmailer. The Junts-ERC rivalry will prolong Illa's agony until 25 August and then until November. It is getting late for almost everything. Bolaños, not Illa, has resumed talks abroad (Switzerland) for the PSC to preside over a tripartite with ERC and the CUP.

Mr Pérez-Castejón therefore has four months to continue breathing artificially. The ex-president, wounded in his honour, has already warned him that he will not approve any law, let alone the 2025 Budget. Was this the concord of the Amnesty Law? The doctor president is trapped in his mousetrap because he wants to lie to everyone everywhere, all the time. His cycle is ending. It is not good to sell the bear's skin before it is hunted. If he falls short of ambition, he jumps higher. And above us all.

In the Moncloa they sense it. They are the emperors of crises. Puigdemont has the last word. If he is not designated Molt Honorable, he will immolate himself and his philistines on the altar of revenge. And Don Pedro will have to call general elections to lose them. After so much, all for nothing. Sánchez: step on the gas! In the early hours of the morning.

Six summers later

The European elections have dislocated the entire coalition government. With the great Yoli in her fourth consecutive defeat and her fourth party in ruins, the magician Sánchez is trying to stop Sumar from subtracting and once again subordinate himself to Podemos so that in the next general elections there will only be one party to the left of the PSOE against the three (PP, Vox and SALF) of the right-wing.

Yolanda Díaz is leaving, but she is staying. We always knew that Sumar never existed. A hoax. She resigns out of the blue and entrenches herself in the official car, in the big flat and in the position of her vice-presidency. Out of responsibility, she maintains. A heroine

More than the separatists, the future of the head of the government will depend on the coordination of the opposition. Feijóo is not getting it right, neither with his communication team nor with his legal team nor with his international policy team. He is on the verge of unconditional surrender in the renewal of the government of the judges. It will be his political grave. He has all the territorial power and does not know how to mobilise the masses. It lacks a Factory of Ideas. With ideas that excite the people.

Abascal and Alvise, attacking the King on his 10th Anniversary, and the PP, are the best allies of the "Government of Progress". It is the clamp that the PSOE needs to continue mistreating the PP, the voxistas and the Alvise squirrels associated (all of them) with the underworld.

The Moncloa's Gobelsian factory is selling the "democratic quality" package as the "ark of salvation" in the face of the imminent arrival of the end of the world. Sánchez breathes another summer. Let's hope he does not have time to impose by totalitarian force the doctrine of the liberation of "Bolivarian Trumpism".

Six summers later this Executive is burnt out. Desperate. This explains the insults to the opposition from the Council of Ministers or from the Ministry of Public Works. Pilar Alegría and Óscar Puente insult like nobody else and like never before. The "sack of shit" is unbeatable. That's why Sánchez accelerates his power machinery without stopping and without control. The brakes no longer respond. There are no limits to his escape into the abyss. With the Amnesty he has legalised corruption. That is progressivism.

I thank Joaquín Sabina for lending me the title. Although I failed, I am an admirer of his talent and the first to promote him so that the RAE would welcome him among its immortals. Not for the lyrics of his songs, that too; but for his books of poetry full of metaphors full of life, humour, love, heartbreak and hope.

The constitutional King

H.M. King Felipe VI celebrates ten years of dedication to Spain (2014-2017). He promised a renewed Monarchy for a new era. And he has delivered. This decade has been the most convulsive of the Transition. The plurinational government has not been able to sign an institutional declaration in support of the Crown. It has settled for a tweet from the president on the social network X. And a few extemporaneous words from the minister Teresa Rivera.

The plenary session of Congress has also failed to make a statement. It is worth remembering that this is a Parliamentary Monarchy. This is the contempt that the Republican Government of the Nation, with Navarre and the Balearic Islands as standard-bearers, maintain against the Head of State. They have ignored it during this "dark six-year period" inside and outside Spain. Prudence and solitude. Today, preventing him from receiving Milei. Not a bad gesture, not a word of complaint.

We have never expected anything from this social communist government. We do not deserve an Executive and a Legislature that do not respect the Head of State. The Amnesty Law has been a slap in the face of the 3-O royal speech. We will not forget it. We were in Barcelona on that historic 8 October 2017. You don't have to be a monarchist; you just have to be a democrat. Don Felipe is the main beam of our Nation. The Constitution of 1978 is his guide. In him we trust.

The Zarzuela has sent out a clear message. Three simple words: "Service, commitment and duty". Unity, solidarity and diversity.

The official act in the Royal Palace, decorating 19 exemplary people from civil society, sums up the work of an exemplary monarchy. Ethics, austerity and transparency.

No institution has suffered more attacks than the Royal Court. Silence and solitude. Together for Spain. Long live the King.

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