The fall of the last bastion

The defence and resistance to external attacks of any country, coalition or alliance is based on a more or less extensive territory, guarded and dominated by a series of strong points or bastions of varying size and natural or artificial strength where they can become strong enough to resist the onslaught of any enemy that wants to take control of the territory in question. Preventing the fall of all of them, or at least the most important or transcendental ones, is vital for the survival of the former.

Since the arrival to power of the social-communist coalition, some, more clearly than others, have announced the need to 'storm the skies' and take control of the propaganda and communication media and the powers of the state in order to transform it - from within democracy - into something that does not even resemble it.

Just like what happened in Nazi Germany so that Hitler could seize total domination, Sánchez has not ceased to increase his weak power by means of a profound transformation of its capacities, which has allowed him to legislate as he wishes and needs and to ignore or repeal everything previously established in defence of democracy and the Constitution, to become strong and insensitive to the criticism of others with the indispensable and very necessary direct and interested support of Spain's greatest enemies.

Said and done, in contrast to what happens when the taciturn, ashamed, slow and always suspicious right wing governs, and despite having promised in a thousand ways to all and sundry that this would never happen, the governing left got down to work in less than twenty-four hours and we soon saw how most of those bastions, on which our democracy rested, were gradually falling one after the other and without any solution of continuity.

Faced with such alarming progress, some observers accustomed to critical analysis soon began to announce that the demolition machinery was already in motion, that soon those first conquests - to which the majority did not attach importance - would be followed by other more important bastions, or to put it more accurately, fundamental for the progress of the democratic state.

The truth is that those protests or voices of alarm, like preaching in the desert, did not make much of a dent in the conscience of the few who dared to listen to us, and most of them branded us as alarmists, exaggerated or mentally incontinent.

I do not think that at this point it is necessary to recall all the legislation that has been developed or repealed, the rights that have been violated, trampled underfoot and the posts and positions that have been obscenely or abusively occupied because of the way of getting there or because of the fruits and subsequent developments carried out by those slimy "faithful dogs" who, as such, would do what their master's voice commanded them to do, would do as their master's voice commanded, which is why he kept and maintains them in well-paid positions and which also serve as a springboard or launching pad to, in due course, be able to opt for other positions of higher rank and remuneration, within Spain or abroad among the many ambushed in the immense and almost inexhaustible international tangle.

We saw how the private media, TVE and opinion-shaping bodies such as the CIS and other motley institutes such as INE, the CMNV were taken over one by one obscenely and without the slightest resistance. The same happened with the Council of State, the State Attorney's Office, the Attorney General's Office, the Ombudsman's Office and other entities involved in the administration of justice. All that remained was the General Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court (both on the verge of giving up) and, as a real fulcrum or fulcrum, the most important of them all, the Constitutional Court (TC).

The political system, not of merit - which we mistakenly gave ourselves or allowed to be imposed on us with Felipe González and never corrected by the right - for filling the posts in these latter bodies, means that the alternation of their members is in line, albeit with some delay, with the colour of the governing party; that is, left-wing or right-wing, with characters wrongly called progressive or conservative respectively.

Throughout our short democratic history, despite the ease with which seats and support for government have made it easier to govern, there has always been a certain amount of embarrassment and shame so that the feathers of the judges of the high courts would not be clearly visible in an ostensible and shameful way.

But this unwritten rule, like many others, although well written and contained in laws that are now a dead letter, has not been applied by the Sanchista government, which has given it a way of governing that makes you dizzy because of the deadlines and ways it uses to legislate and the changes in criteria applied to the legislation or rules in use and in force because they have not been repealed.

After some delays and various missteps, Sánchez has finally managed to appoint to the presidency of the TC the attorney general who, under Zapatero, became famous for his sectarian way of applying the law and for a famous phrase justifying his dishonourable actions: 'sometimes the robes have to get dirty with the dust of the road'. A phrase that summed it all up, explained the individual's moral character and gave a glimpse of how far he might go in the future, if he were to occupy a more important position.

As was to be expected and unfortunately usually happens; the vile services rendered by this person gave him the door to the TC, and as when he entered the court the left were in a minority, his fundamental role until the present has consisted of dynamiting the work of the TC itself, discrediting his colleagues or their resolutions, plaguing everything approved by the majority of his 'colleagues' with dissenting votes and insisting on recusing the vast majority of them at the slightest suspicion of any shadow or belief in their colleagues.

A few days ago, Sánchez achieved his long-cherished dream forged in league with Iglesias, obtaining a left-wing majority in the TC and putting his biggest and best faithful dog, the aforementioned Conde Pumpido, at its head. He has shown unusual speed in resolving cases that have been stuck for more than a decade, such as the appeal lodged more than twelve years ago by the Popular Party against Zapatero's famous law on abortion, known as the "Ley de plazos".

It has not taken a second of discussion, an issue that was so difficult or delicate and that successive TCs did not dare to elucidate, has been endorsed in its entirety by partisan ideology, without changing a single comma, despite the recusals of four of its members (one presented voluntarily by a right-wing judge); These challenges, involving the president of the court and its vice-president, were rejected out of hand by the court itself, without discussion or batting an eyelid, alleging certain tricks, despite the fact that their cases are clearly covered by the legislation in force on the subject.

These unscrupulous and unconscientious gestures and actions highlight the danger that Spain is in as of now. The TC has clearly lost its origin and raison d'être and will act for the benefit of Sánchez, Sanchismo and all the dreadful laws that are and will be approved by a council of ministers, misguided, incompetent and totally partial, with dangerous drifts towards a rancid communism of which we already know its 'great fruits' in Latin America.

 It so happens that this is happening on the same day that the government manages - on the stroke of a bell - to get the Animal Welfare Law passed in the Spanish Parliament, so that coincidence or causality makes the endorsement of a law that helps the disappearance of some one hundred thousand living beings a year coincide on the same date with another law that protects animals to dizzying extremes, which would make even the most dignified person with a modicum of dignity blush.

Spain, a country with decreasing growth, allows itself the luxury of losing so many of its fellow citizens at the bottom of the curve, and at the same time, with the also approved law on Euthanasia, it does so at the top, to which must be added the more serious cases that will occur when the new law on abortion is approved, without any doubt, by which the act can be free, without control or parental permission from a very young age and circumstance.

The fact that the TC has fallen into the hands it is in, in which a large part of it is fed by grateful stomachs and well-fed staff and the rest of the left are totally faithful to what Sánchez preaches, means that 'the doomsayers' who saw this moment and its consequences coming, are now predicting that this body will cease to be the last bastion or dike of containment that, as it had been doing, will stop the delusions of a president and a government that is totally misguided, incapable and out of its depth.

And I ask myself, what is the EU doing and what will it do in the face of such undemocratic abuses of power? The answer is quite simple: nothing. Spain is neither Hungary nor Poland, and Sánchez, as usual, will surely convince them with lies and good promises in the long run, which will never be proven.