Tezanos claims that judges “never took an oath to the Constitution” and predicts a rise of “neo-Nazi” groups because of the PP

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José Félix Tezanos, president of the CEI, affirms that Spanish judges “never took an oath to the Constitution” during the transition from the Franco regime to democracy.

Tezanos warns of a possible rise of neo-Nazi movements in Spain, partly blaming the Popular Party for its political attitude.

In his article, he identifies the PP and certain media as heirs of Francoism and criticizes the absence of “de-Francoization” after the dictatorship.

He points out that “Francoist remnants” persist in sectors such as agricultural entrepreneurs, the upper classes and retirees, and calls for defending democracy against the far right.

The president of the Center for Sociological Research (CIS), José Félix Tezanos, joins the government’s strategy aimed at identifying the PP with Francoism and discrediting the judges.

Tezanos publishes an article this week in the magazine Topicswhich he directs, in which he maintains that the Spanish judges “They never swore to the Constitution“, moving from Francoism to the Transition, and predicts that in Spain there will be a rise in “neo-Nazi” movements, due to the connivance of the PP.

The article is titled Franco’s remnants in today’s Spain.

Father Ángel, Luis Felipe Utrera-Molina, Alfredo Amestoy, Ramón Arcusa (from Dúo Dinático) and Miguel Ángel Revilla.

In his text, he mentions “the most Francoist party of the Transition: the People’s Alliance (later renamed People’s Party) of the so-called Magnificent Seven (former Francoist ministers), who initially resisted tooth and nail the legalization of the Communist Party and what they called PSOE (r), that is to say the party led by Felipe González, not to accept the current Constitution“.

José Félix Tezanos forgets to mention that two of the great architects of the Transition also came from the Franco regime, the first president of the democracy and leader of the UCD, Adolfo Suárez (who had been minister-secretary of the Movement), and Torcuato Fernández-Miranda (who was president of the government after the assassination of white carrero and later president of the Cortes).

And they are the ones who, to a large extent, designed and executed the road map from dictatorship to democracy.

In his article, the president of the CEI also identifies certain media and judges with Francoism.

And this in the midst of the government’s offensive against the Supreme Court, following the conviction of the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, for disclosing confidential information about Ayuso’s partner.

Tezanos regrets that after the death of the dictator there was no “defranquistization” in Spain like that denazification programs“applied after World War II in countries like Germany and Italy.

And he attributes this to the fact that “a certain type of sociological Francoism was part of the context present in the democratic transition”.

He gives two examples: “the judges, who have never sworn to the Constitutionand many social media prototypes of Francoism, such as ABC – but not only that – who have always remained true to their nature, without fully assuming the ways and means of democracy, in the full and modern sense.

Today, all judges swear by the Constitution when they occupy their first position and when they progress in a career category, as provided for in article 318 of the Organic Law of the Judiciary (LOPJ).

And they do so with the formula established in this precept: “I swear (or promise) to faithfully observe and cause the Constitution and the rest of the legal system to be respected at all times. loyalty to the Crown, administering honest and impartial justice and fulfill my judicial duties in front of everyone.

Due to the presence of these embers of Francoism, affirms José Félix Tezanos, there exists in Spain a “notable rise in neo-Nazi formations and far-right.”

Something that, he warns, “in the Spain of the years to come could be boosted upwards by some of the current strategies of the PP, whose leaders do not understand very well that”WHO
sowing the winds ends up reaping the storms‘”.

Tezanos analyzes one of the last surveys that he himself commissioned as president of the CEI to explain that there are today significant “Francoist residues” among “businessmen (especially agricultural), among those who consider themselves belonging to the upper and upper middle class, and among retirees.”

All this to arrive at the conclusion that “we must be firm in the defense of democracy, which the vast majority of Spaniards support”.

Because, he warns, it is only “if they succeed strategies of hatred, intimidation and critical negativismand if these manage to lead an appreciable part of the progressive electorates to discouragement and abstention, it will be possible for the extreme right to conquer political-electoral positions.

With his article in the magazine TopicsTezanos applies the strategy of President Pedro Sánchez, who took advantage of Constitution Day on Saturday to attack “the heirs of Francoism or those who agree with the heirs of Francoism“, he said in reference to Vox and PP.