Four infinite years
We had always believed that interesting things happened far from home; we were wrong. The Sanchez regime in less than 1,500 days - a pandemic during his term of office - has changed our lives and estates. In search of lost time, -may Proust assist us-, we find wounds on all fronts. During this "meganegro" quadrennium, almost all state agencies have been touched and some have collapsed.
The coronavirus has claimed 140,000 people. God rest their souls. The prosecutor Navajas, before retiring, rendered a great service to Lola Delgado and her direct boss, President Sánchez. All members of the executive were exonerated of responsibility during and after the tragedy.
At the stroke of a decree-law, the social-communist coalition has governed as if there were no tomorrow. The High Court declared unconstitutional the two states of alarm, the transfer of competences to the High Courts of Justice of the Autonomous Communities - "the Judiciary is not co-governing", and the closure of the Congress of Deputies neutralising the entire opposition. Despite the Bolivarian television beatings to which he subjected us at lunch and dinner, the doctor was unable to tell us a single truth. The official spokesman Fernando Simón - "in Spain there will be at most one or two cases of COVID" - after two hundred consecutive lies had to admit one hundred and fifty nights later that the advisory council that dictated the technical measures to the government never existed.
For the leader, the four years of his administration after the censure motion can be summed up in two words: Spain is moving forward. The tenant of the Moncloa can see from the sky "an exemplary government that respects the decision of powers and gives prestige to the institutions". He's a real thresher! No doubt he lives in another country. That's why he can't even go out to buy bread.
Since he fell in love with Iglesias, he has only been accurate in his propaganda. And in squatting the institutions. All of them. There are the examples of RTVE, Attorney General's Office, State Attorney's Office, CGPJ, Court of Auditors, T.C., Ombudsman, Army, Civil Guard, National Police, FEMP, Post Office, FEF, public and private m.c.s., NGOs, Royal Spanish Academy of Language, professional associations... With a huge Executive, Moncloa has become the biggest employment office of democracy. Sánchez has placed all his friends -with or without a bachelor's degree-, and without salary limits.
Dr Sánchez Pérez-Castejón described his ministers and his parliamentary partners as a "team 10". No doubt. We have already seen the division with NATO, with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, with the Audiovisual Law or with Western Sahara. Its dependence on ERC, Just, PNV, errejonistas and Bildu explains how and how much it has bent from minute one to keep power and the manger. A medieval submission.
Ministers like Marlaska or Robles have been the greatest executioners of the victims of terrorism and of the CNI agents. Pegasus has shown that these two judges are lackeys with the soul of slaves, as Marcelino Camacho taught us. While the former defenestrated the leadership of the Benemérita and the PN and left the agents in Ceuta, Melilla and the Campo de Gibraltar helpless, Mrs Roblespierre mercilessly decapitated the exemplary civil servant Paz Esteban. But it was Sánchez himself, after a prolonged silence, who executed the spy chief, citing security lapses that correspond to his favourite valido Félix Bolaños. "The pardons have been granted for a greater cause", emphasised this Monclovite servant after he was humiliated in the Generalitat when he went to apologise for the eavesdropping. Is there a greater cause than compliance with the law?
It was one more victory for independence and for the heirs of ETA. Bishop Junqueras spoke, the official Moncloa newspaper spread the slogan, Puigdemont and Aragonés got angry separately, and our courageous president surrendered unconditionally, blaming the Supreme Court judge who authorised the National Intelligence Centre to take motivated action. He deserves a pension medal for his heroism. The response was immediate: "The CNI control judges neither set the targets to be investigated nor are they informed of the espionage". You be the judge.
The most virtuous part of his appearance in Congress was undoubtedly the concession he made to Rufián: "Your Honour, I have also been spied on". What a shame, Sabina would say. Sánchez is a chameleon like Woody Allen's Zelig. He knew nothing about the eavesdropping on the coup plotters. It was time to transform himself into a lamb so that the separatist and pro-ETA wolves would continue to vote for him for the rest of the legislature and thus increase the level of blackmail. Instead of dismantling the plot hatched in Barcelona and Toronto, he confined himself to attacking the opposition, calling them "crooks".
He called the policemen who defended the Magna Carta in Catalonia when they declared independence "piolines". Nobody insults like the secretary general of the PSOE. But at the same time he presents himself as the champion of dialogue. He means of monologue.
Because in deciding on Ghali's illegal entry into Spain or the clandestine letter to Mohammed VI, he did not consult either his government or his Foreign Affairs ministers. Nor did he consult Parliament. Of course, only our own Klemens von Metternich could think of telling Zelenski in Kiev -glory be to him for his 100 days of struggle against the Russian invader- that Spain had just sent "a ship with arms to Poland to help the Ukrainian people. And he gave the name of the ship and the time of arrival in port. A strategist.
Now that his podemite Putinites want to boycott the NATO summit in Madrid, he could demand of his Atlantic partners that, when extending the defence umbrella to the Sahel, they include the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. That would be constitutionalist patriotism; let's see if his fellow travellers will finally leave the government. He neither chose Podemos' ministers nor can he remove them. A president tied hand and foot.
Twenty-four hours before its fourth anniversary, the Catalan government issued a decree (Enabling Law) to overturn the TSJC ruling that requires 25% of classes to be taught in Spanish. With the consent of Salvador Illa's PSC, what was the government's response? None. Sánchez will look the other way, he promised not to take any decision of ERC/Junts to the Constitutional Court and the Minister of Education, supported by the Catalan church, -may they burn in hell-, has been emboldened saying that not a step backwards. How are they going to respect us in Europe if we do not respect our laws? Let's hope that one day some good men will change the prison sentences that nobody complies with, for a simple organic law that enshrines the permanent political and economic disqualification for any public office that does not promise the Magna Carta or attacks the unity of the Nation.
Disobedience in the fulfilment of the law is the greatest crime in democracy. And Sánchez has long been leading the coup d'état in Catalonia. To tell the truth, Sánchez, with his marble face, has always lacked the ultimate coup. And when he leaves he will leave the procés worse than when he found it. Nationalist apartheid, a real terror in the classrooms and in civil society, will prevent Sanchismo from prosecuting Puigdemont for his possible relationship with the Kremlin and his talks to create a Catalan Democratic Republic with cryptocurrencies and a lot of mafia from the East. This cowardly and traitorous coup plotter called in the south of France to fight against the "oppressor state" (Spain) that pays him 114,000 euros as ex-president, escort and secretaries. We have not yet learned that Rome does not pay traitors.
We have not forgotten the scandal of the Delcy/Ábalos suitcases or the pact with Otegui, handing over Navarre to him and supporting the heirs of ETA to expel the PNV in order to co-govern the Basque Country. This is the democracy armed with propaganda and fervent republicanism of Largo Caballero to establish the Third Republic once Juan Carlos I has left and the head of state, Felipe VI, has been pushed into irrelevance. Especially because the people connect with the King and Queen. The aim is to kill the Transition. And they are still at it.
This is the most opaque government. It has transgressed more than 1,200 times the Transparency Law. Spain has gone backwards in freedom of the press. It even proposed the Guardia Civil to protect the image of the Sanchez regime in order to erase its elusive image from COVID-19. That's where I leave it.
The Andalusians have a date at the polls on 19-J. Sanchez and Lastra have gone there to accuse the PP of corruption. It takes a lot of guts to talk about this issue from Despeñaperros downwards when two PSOE presidents (Chaves and Griñán) are in prison awaiting an unedifying sentence for embezzling money from the unemployed, in the company of the UGT and CCOO who were gorging themselves on seafood. And there are still several cases in the courts (Ports of Mallorca, Francina Armengol and the Ximo Puig family, etc.).
As the doberman of the right and the extreme right is no longer valid, VOX is now accused of receiving gold from Moscow. It is the same thing. Cattle farmers, farmers, taxi drivers, lorry drivers, hunters and the self-employed are fed up with the fact that Sanchismo has trampled on their dreams. The polls - even the CIS of Tezanos - are predicting a very large majority for the PP and VOX. Candidate Juan Espadas is likely to fall behind Susana Diaz in votes and seats. The Andalusian PSOE will suffer the sectarian policies of the economist Sánchez.
Juanma Moreno and Macarena Olona are condemned to change this social-communist cycle. Andalusia is a dress rehearsal for the regional, local and general elections of 2023. With a broken coalition, welded by fire by nepotism, our hero takes refuge in the EU.
The ballot boxes will precipitate the erosion of a ruler who lives with his back to reality. The fall will be harder, even if it drags us to the bottom of the abyss.
If the political environment continues to be at a standstill, the Spanish economy will break records of uncertainty. Data: since January, 37,000 companies have disappeared in our country. They are suffocated by rising costs. The Social Security deficit (68 billion) is unsustainable. Debt is close to 130% of GDP (1.5 trillion euros). Growth is stunted. Keeping pensions linked to inflation (8.4%) is suicide. Public spending is increasing by 210 million a day. Wasteful. You have never heard this governmental troop talk about containing public spending. If economic ruin stalks us on the other side of the summer, in the field of ethics we are worse than ever. We depend on sanchistas, incompetents, ruffians, errejones, oteguis, monteros (mj and irene), belarras and calvinist nadiuskas to breathe.
The vice-president lied to us in the budget and still does not explain the execution of the European funds, that manna of 144,000 million that only her husband's commissioner knows where they have gone. Improving on the villainy of her leader, Calviño accused VOX in parliament of wanting to hand out weapons to citizens after the massacre in Uvalde, (Texas, USA). It was a lie, but anything goes. They lie unnecessarily. In this aggressive attitude, Yolanda Díaz, attacks the Bank of Spain and Feijó with disproportion and without reason because of the ERTES and the fixed-term workers. When she does not even know what an ERE is. And this luminary is the transversal white hope of the left.
These four years have been endless. The gender laws -which enshrine the inequality of all Spaniards- have ended up pardoning two women (Juana Rivas and María Sevilla), convicted of kidnapping and mistreating their children, and modifying the sentences of judges. The indictment of Monica Oltra for covering up her husband's rapes is another example of the double standards of communists and socialists. The hijacking of classrooms is intensifying with the new LOMLOE texts, real brainwashing of adolescents. Ayuso has already gone to court. Excellent. The podemite ideological charge is typical of revolutionary Leninism. A sample: full democracy in Spain is represented by the photos of Sánchez, Oltra and Albert Rivera. I say no more. In addition to the economic crisis, there is a moral and values crisis unparalleled in our history. State pacts cannot be signed with Sánchez and his associates because the political regression has already taken us back ninety years.
Moral rearmament is urgent. And without an ideological and cultural battle it will not be achieved. Suffice it to say that this week the PSOE will take to Congress an initiative-trap for the PP to vote for a cordon sanitaire against Santiago Abascal's party. The only thing missing is the inclusion of a green Star of David on the left arm of the voxeros. The socialists see the speck in someone else's eye, but not the log in their own (Saint Matthew, 7, 3-5 and Don Quixote (II 43).
I insist: four infinite years in the Sanchista desert with two glimmers of hope that stormed the skies of Paris: the 14 European Cups of Florentino's Real Madrid and the 14/22 of Rafa Nadal. The King was there. Marca España.
Antonio REGALADO directs BAHIA DE ITACA at: aregaladorodriguez.blogspot.com