The humiliation of Caesar
Three hundred years as a gift. Next year, everyone to the streets. A ‘Basque-style amnesty’, taking advantage of the clumsy transposition of a European directive. Sánchez has pledged not to withdraw the law and denies that it is yet another advance payment to Otegui. You know: prisoners for budgets. It is a fact, a data, not a story.
Marlaska had pledged his word in writing to the victims of terrorism in 2021 not to allow any reduction of sentences to the heirs of the axe and the snake. Marlaska's words and those of Sánchez are worth less than nothing. They lie beyond their means.
Error and indignity
The progressive coalition government has scored a goal against the PP and VOX, but Bildu has doubly scored a goal against the government, the opposition and all Spaniards after presenting in Congress two days before the reform of the Gag Law; that is, the disprotection of the Police and the Guardia Civil. And this was the president who promised he would never make a pact with ETA: ‘I tell you, once, five or twenty times, if you want: I will never make a pact with Bildu’.
The motive on immigration after nine months of the distressing situation in the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla is simple: the PP should sign Art. 35 of the Law on Foreigners so that the distribution of foreigners, adults, minors and women is extended throughout the national territory (except Catalonia), which demands exclusive competences on a state issue.
The government has no plan. With 30,000 refugees arriving in the Canary Islands this year, it only offers 50 million for emergencies, as it did in ‘22 and ’23. Coalición Canaria MP Cristina Valido bravely defended her people.
The president says he cannot ask FRONTEX for help until we in Parliament are able to reach an agreement.
He was especially demanding with Feijóo and Abascal, while he did not mention Puigdemont, who has the 7 votes he lacks to approve this Art. 35. To Abascal he asked in his reply why he hates migrants so much? ‘Because of xenophobia’, he replied.
Given the disproportionate timing - the president has no limits either in the presentation or in the reply - the conservative leader began by criticising the indignity of the Txapote reform. ‘Don't lower the penalties, don't laugh at the victims, don't look for shortcuts; it has never gone this far, the moral baseness of a government to stay in power. If you have to deceive, you deceive, if you have to lie, you lie, if you have to divide, you divide, and if you have to free prisoners, you free them. Keep the applause of Otegui and Txapote’!
The president of the Congress Francina Armengol, the one who gave 3.2 million euros to ‘Koldo's’ friends, interrupted the speech of the leader of the opposition by talking about an issue that was not on the agenda. He showed him the red card for not adhering to the Rules of Procedure. Don Alberto, angry, after apologising to the victims and voters for the lack of vigilance in the papers, committee and plenary session of Congress, was more energetic than ever, more angry: ‘If the president has the right to talk about the dignity of immigrants, I have the right to defend the dignity of the Spaniards murdered by ETA. And I am not going to keep quiet’.
Mari Mar Blanco, senator, took the place of Cuca Gamarra, next to Feijóo. The sister of Miguel Ángel Blanco was received with applause.
Armengol ceased her admonishment. When Podemos and the separatist nationalists spoke of Israel, the genocide in Gaza, the arrival from Venezuela of the right-wing González [winner of the 28J elections against Maduro], the attacks on Yemen and the offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, or housing, the excellent president of Congress kept quiet; she has not abandoned sectarianism since the first day.
The PP president looked as if he had not slept well. The failure of his deputies to supervise the bill is not an unjustifiable mistake; it is a lack of professional rigour. Why do they pay so many aulic advisors? Where are these deputies and senators, lawyers of recognised prestige? Beyond the intrinsic malice of the left-wing parties, were they not suspicious when it arrived as a matter of urgency and without reports from the Council of State and the CGPJ?
It is good to apologise to the victims, but it is not enough. The fault lies with this ineffective opposition that already gave encouragement to the government by voting for Yolanda's Labour Reform Law.
There is still a way to save the furniture: vote ‘no’ in the Senate on the grounds that information has been withheld and vote ‘no’ on its return to Congress. Because it is a lie that this is a law endorsed by Rajoy's PP in 2014 and that it has been endorsed by the Council of State.
Lies that were spread by land, sea and air by all the media artillery of the Moncloa. Spokeswoman Alegría, the president, the triminister Bolaños, Marlaska and the vice-president Yolanda, of Restar, lied wholesale and deliberately.
Threats of political death
The time difference for defending and presenting proposals is one of the inequalities of the Lower House's Rules of Procedure. More than inequality, it is an injustice. There is no equality of opportunity.
It would seem reasonable that, if the ‘unlimited time’ for the president is maintained, the political parties should be compensated according to the number of deputies (or senators). Example: 30 minutes per group and 1 minute more for every 10 members. In this case, the PP would extend its time to 53 minutes, the PSOE 42, VOX 33, Sumar 33 and the rest as they are. With the Rules of Procedure in hand, the Government keeps everything. The abuse and humiliation are parallel and permanent.
After the appearance of the different political groups, Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, who is the most shamelessly audacious of the class, took the opportunity to settle accounts. He humiliated Alberto Núñez Feijóo as never before. Even more than when he mocked him, when he said that he ‘did not want to be president because he did not accept Junts’ conditions’.
After bidding him good morning, he said: ‘Mr. Feijóo: you know what you vote for, don't you? You only know how to pull out the ETA joker. There is no one at the wheel of your party’, he asserted in a supremacist manner.
Dr. Sánchez admitted that governability is difficult and after asking the PP to approve the spending ceiling to move forward with the budget 24, -there was no budget in 2023-.
The PSOE leader was so comfortable, so at ease that he claimed he had won the general election on 23 July. It was a lie, but it didn't matter. Feijóo's surprised face was a poem. Don Pedro emphasised:
‘Yes, Mr Feijóo; I won the elections, that is why I am here, presiding over a progressive coalition government and you are still there, in opposition’.
A flash of lightning always foreshadows the storm. The president became Julius Caesar, dictator for life, in the last months of his mandate. In this dynamic, Sánchez reached the point of humiliation, revenge and cruelty. What disappoints your voters more, your hypocrisy or your incompetence,’ he asked, to answer himself: ’With you,’ he said, ’one does not know where lies begin and incompetence ends’. He continued with low blows:
‘You don't rule in your party; you rule... the boss’. [by Isabel Díaz Ayuso] ‘You don't control your barons. The boss rules’.
Pedro Sánchez more Sánchez than ever. More supremacist than ever. ‘I will last 1063 days’, he boasted. ‘You are nothing and nobody’, he added. His smile was that of a hyena. Forgive the comparison. No empathy, no compassion, no peace, no mercy, no forgiveness. He has been anchored to civil war.
The obsession with the president of the Community of Madrid is unhealthy. He has named her at least a dozen times. He has not forgiven her for the fact that the PP has been winning the elections for more than 20 years. And even less that she is a ‘guest’ before the special commission created in the Assembly of Madrid to investigate the professorship and master's degrees of Begoña Gómez, his beloved wife, at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Given the experience of the ‘catedrática’ Begoña Gómez, if she goes, she will say nothing. Her lawyer will advise her not to testify because the ‘no case-yes case’ is pending legal proceedings.
After the report of the Provincial Court endorsing the investigation, Judge Juan Carlos Peinado has charged her for alleged crimes of influence peddling, private corruption and misappropriation. Is she also going to recuse the three judges of the Provincial Court after endorsing Judge Peinado? Is she going to launch the Attorney General's Office and the Government Attorney General's Office against them?
With the leader of VOX, he was also particularly cruel. Why do you hate migrants? It was a rhetorical question, but the president answered it: ‘You do it out of racism and xenophobia; you prefer governments like those of Hungary's Viktor Orban. You make your support for the PP's budgets in the Autonomous Communities conditional on not accepting the ‘menas’ and immigrants’.
He splashed in the mud accusing Abascal of ‘having lived off the “chiringuitos” of the Community of Madrid [he was threatened with death by ETA] and accused him of the usual: ’The right and the ultra-right that is triumphing in the world. And the money, it comes from outside...’.
In his reply, Abascal asked him for the umpteenth time this unanswered question: ‘How many IBEX CEOs have you called to receive your wife?’
The money was also explained: ‘We have asked for it from a Hungarian bank because they wouldn't give it to us here’.
The interventions of the rest of the opposition (Junts, ERC, PNV, Bildu and Podemos) all agreed with the reduction of ETA's sentences. All trying to save the soldier Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón.
The welcome of Mertxe Aizpurúa, the convicted Bilduetarra, to the immigrants was more fervent than that of Manuela Carmena in Madrid. Not a single mention of the 200,000 Basques exiled by the threats of the Basque terrorist group for the last 40 years. Hypocrisy does not change sides.
Patxi López defended the releases with the passion of a Basque nationalist militant. He said that ‘ETA no longer exists’. But they are in charge. And they dictate the laws to Sanchismo, OK?
His comrades murdered by the terrorist group will never forgive him for this immoral parliamentary intervention. ‘You will freeze our blood [again]’; We still remember the words of Maite Pagazaurtundia's mother, before the coffin of her murdered husband.
Imperial hoaxes
In the control session that preceded the debate, we saw that this government does not answer anything. Whether they ask about Begoña, David Sánchez, Justice, Venezuela, Argentina or Muface, the answer is the same: this is a hoax, a fake news. To ask is to insult. You are a facha, facha, of the right and of the extreme right.
Montero, Bolaños, Grande-Marlaska, Torres, Isabel Rodríguez and Oscar López treated the MPs - especially those from the PP - who asked about their competences and about the untouchable lady Begoña Gómez with infinite contempt. The president has infected the art of lying to the whole cabinet and to Sanchismo.
Rodríguez announced that she would go to court when asked about her husband's promotion.
Parliament is dying for a majority that hates Spain and wants to destroy it. The atmosphere in Parliament - I spent almost 20 years in Parliament as a journalist - is nauseating. The government and its fellow travellers are links in the same chain of disinformation, hoaxes and lies. And of hatred and the stranding of people.
Pedro Sánchez, the commander-in-chief in such difficult times, with his haughtiness and imperial arrogance, has not dispelled the lies, deceptions and falsehoods of his mandate.
This is the attitude of the tenant of the Moncloa who depends directly on three bosses: Puigdemont, Otegui and Junqueras. They mistreat him and he remains in power. For him this moral turpitude is worth it.
He depends on these three bosses so much that until the congresses of ERC and Junts, the government is ‘frozen’. A year and a half lost and no budget again. The PSOE Congress is a cover to become the Supreme Leader, the emperor for life. The eternal autocrat.
The action plan for democracy is a joke for a PSOE corrupt since the Civil War to Tito Berni and Koldo. He has never explained his wife's business dealings, nor those of his brother, nor the Eres (648 million PSOE-Andalucía), nor the Koldo case. Nor of the ‘information racket’ protected by Cerdán in the Ferraz headquarters.
Tudanca's case is astounding. There is no known candidate who has lost three consecutive elections and aspires to a fourth defeat. With a medium-sized post, the magnanimity of the visionary César will resolve the mutiny of those from León and Valladolid.
Pedro Sánchez was at the top selling an image of a statesman capable of governing without Parliament and without controls. The king of polarisation. He announced tax hikes and culminated his glorious morning and afternoon with the threat that ‘the PP lowers taxes to favour the rich’. A phoney for life.
The shadow of the arrest of Aldama, Begoña's friend, Koldo, Ábalos and the UCO reports is already too long. The moral turpitude of this government is its banner. The triangle of institutional corruption Aldama-Koldo-Ábalos has its epicentre in Zapatero-Delcy, splashes the Guardia Civil, Interior with ramifications in the Dominican Republic.
Víctor de Aldama is in all the top sewers of corruption. He has already been arrested for defrauding, alone and in the company of others, 180 million VAT on hydrocarbon sales. Corruption walks the cusp of power.
Sánchez has only been sung to in public and in private by García Page. He spoke loud and clear that the ‘Catalan concert’ is similar to that of the Basque Country and that this represents inequality. ‘He wants to square the circle’. Emiliano, the emperor goes further. He said in parliament: ‘We aspire to a federal state’. Or confederal. Both actions are outside the Magna Carta.
The president is today more vulnerable and dangerous than ever because of his anti-constitutional drift. He is heading straight for the storm. Hurricane ‘Milton’ will give us tomorrow the answer of its devastating force in Florida. It can no longer sell us deceptive sunrises.
The Revolution that has begun cannot stop, it needs no rest. Those who like to see events clearly will see all situations clearly and in all directions. We would like the people to say, at least, that they are awake.
In this rainy week, someone has to tell Pedro Julio César Sánchez Pérez-Castejón ‘don't forget that you are mortal’. More and better tomorrow.
Antonio REGALADO is a journalist and runs BAHÍA de ÍTACA at: aregaladorodriguez.blogspot.com