Spain – is its “democratic” constitution under threat?
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Pedro Sanchez´s PSOE may have lost the recent general election to the conservative Partido Popular (PP) but a deal with the Catalan separatists will allow him to cling on to power with a very slim majority. But there is a problem. Having made a deal with the Catalan nationalists (which includes granting amnesty to several hundred of their representatives for their technically illegal attempt to hold an independence referendum some years ago) Sanchez is facing a backlash. Before the elections, he promised there would be no amnesty. Now he has broken his promise
It’s actually looking pretty bad for Sanchez. 40 percent of his own party don’t agree with the deal. There have been massive demos in many parts of Spain and it’s been on the news every night, hogging the headlines. The neo-fascist Vox party which lost a number of seats at the last election, is, as you can imagine, busily making hay while the sun shines as they see it. And there have even been calls for the army to intervene and stage a coup
It’s gonna be a bumpy ride the next few weeks, I reckon….
Watch this space
https://www.ft.com/content/1251812a-761d-48b8-b0c9-936eec65959c
Spain: Retired Military Officials See Amnesty Law as Threat to Constitution
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/spains-new-government-a-threat-to-democracy/
The lurch to, not just the right, but the far right (if these terms have any meaning anymore) continues – not just in Spain but elsewhere in Europe. Geert Wilders has won the election in the Netherlands. The disease of nationalism has well and truly taken hold of the body politic. We are living in grim times.
“Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Wednesday congratulated Mr Wilders, saying the “winds of change are here”.
“Congratulations to Geerts Wilders and the PVV for their spectacular performance in the legislative elections which confirms the growing attachment to the defence of national identities,” said French far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
“It is because there are people who refuse to see the national torch extinguished that the hope for change remains alive in Europe,” she added.
Spain’s far-right politician, Santiago Abascal, added: “More and more Europeans demand in the streets and at the polls that their nations, their borders and their rights be defended.”
Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister of Italy, said, “a new Europe is possible”.
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