Editorial: Partners of Corruption

Regarding the immediate future of Spanish politics, it is planned to introduce a motion of censure against Pedro Sánchez, which the leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Viejo, spoke about on Friday. He did so at the headquarters of the Catalan Employers’ Association, where … She urged businessmen to persuade Gonz — “What I lack is the votes of your people,” she said — to support her in Congress. One might wonder what it would take for the Catalan Autonomists, the Philippine National Party and the rest of the government partners to allow Sánchez to fall, surrounded by corruption and punished in recent days with judicial and parliamentary setbacks unprecedented in the modern history of democracy. The proposal to introduce an effective proposal to impose control on the Popular Party that would lead to the call for elections responds, on a first reading, to the legitimate use of all tools to close the circle of Sanchismo that leads to the deterioration of the foundations of democracy, because the head of government does not assume his basic political responsibility, which should lead him to electoral progress. With his party becoming a “de facto” obstructive minority, and in the absence of a credible horizon for legislation or approval of budgets, the commitment to renewal falls automatically on the shoulders of the partners who support him against all odds.

We must remember that it was these parties that beheaded the government of Mariano Rajoy in 1998, with the aim of fighting corruption. It is difficult to believe that these are the same parties that now tolerate the moral and criminal misery of Sanchezmo, a party besieged by corruption. If Juntes considers that “the time for change” has come, as Miriam Nogueras asserted, dropping the projects of the executive branch in Congress, while at the same time tolerating its remaining in power and exhausting the legislature, this shows the extent to which Sánchez’s accomplices embody hypocrisy today.

After Koldo García and José Luis Abalos went to prison, after justice tried the last two organizational secretaries of the Socialist Workers Party, and after learning of the conviction of the State Prosecutor, whose innocence was declared by the Prime Minister; With the shadow of corruption and nepotism surrounding the wife and brother of the head of the executive, with several senior officials indicted, and even with the party itself investigated on suspicion of involvement in illegal financing, it is worth wondering what might happen so that Sánchez’s investment partners can bring him down. What new discoveries must emerge in a country where, according to Aitor Esteban himself, “the layers of the state are being tightened” and where his party, on the other hand, continues to act as a dishonest supporter of the executive power; What must happen to the populist left, which left 15-M because of the alleged need for cleanliness in public life, to stop maintaining in La Moncloa a government that embraces corruption from the very origins of its candidate. One wonders how Somare and Podemos, who appeared supposed to revive the country, can keep in power a party whose foundations have been undermined by persistent scandals. The argument of the lesser of two evils, according to which it is preferable to form the government of Pedro Sánchez so that far-right parties do not have access to the government, as well as drinking from deep totalitarian sources, has been exhausted in itself. The parties that support Sanchez are no longer just partners of Sanchez, but unfortunately they have become necessary partners in laundering corruption.