Sánchez, a shame on European Council

#SánchezIsAShameOnEuropeanCouncil

On July 1, 2023, Spain will have the six-month turn of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. A presidency that, if there are no elections in between, will be carried out by current Spanish President Sánchez.

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But Sánchez is not a president like any other. I will make a short list of his main merits so that the starting point is clear, although I will surely leave many in the dark. Anyone who follows Spanish politics does not need to read them, we all know them:

• He is allied with terrorists, coup leaders, Chavistas and Kirchnerists… who have not rectified his views at all! This alone should be too impressive to run for the European presidency. But it is only the beginning.
• He has invaded Spanish institutions and eroded the division of powers like no other Spanish president. With incomparable impudence and sectarianism. Something that the EU would certainly not have overlooked in Hungary or Poland.
• Not only has he allied himself with terrorists and coup plotters, but he has released the former from prison and pardoned the latter. And not content with it, he has legislated to erase the crime of sedition and reduce the penalties for embezzlement! That is to say, he adapts the terrain to the interests of the criminals, and he does it without any scruples, practically without concealment. He has even already launched messages suggesting a self-determination consultation despite being strictly unconstitutional. I imagine that he counts on the fact that among the institutions that he has colonized is included the Constitutional Court, where he has directly placed even a minister until then under his direct orders. Without even bothering to maintain the appearance of independence and decorum.
• He allows the law to be broken in much of the Spanish territory and citizens are forced to live using the local languages, without the possibility of using Spanish, whether they want it or not. An obvious variant of mandatory indoctrination, you just have to look at the nationalist interest in this imposition: “if you have a different language you must be from a different nation” it’s the obvious subliminal message.
• It has transformed social ideologies, such as feminism or respect for sexual diversity, into sectarian caricatures that reach the grotesque and are so dysfunctional that they have led to a massive release of sexual offenders that would have been perfectly avoidable. Will the feminist EU also shut up about this?
• It has increased Spain’s debt and decreased per capita income in Spain like no other government in the EU has.
• She has lied and corrupted since the beginning of her tenure. One only has to remember the Delcy case or, even before reaching the presidency, the ballot boxes tricked in the party’s primaries. And now we are in the midst of a media explosion of a corruption case from her party that includes embezzlement of European funds, breach of the state of alarm during the pandemic and that incorporates some funny and not exemplary images of prostitution while accepting bribes.

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The European Union, like any other political body, is essentially moved by ambitions in favor and pressures against. This means, for example, that Poland and Hungary are very frequently sanctioned and insulted, due to pressure from France and Germany. But that Spain, doing much worse things, does not receive that adverse treatment, but rather the opposite.

One might think: well, that’s an advantage for Spain. But it’s not like that. Permissiveness with a bad president is a detriment to the country, not a benefit. In reality, the permissiveness with a deplorable Sánchez is a sign of Spanish weakness, unable to pressure the EU to stop supporting him.

One only has to remember the lack of collaboration that Spain received when Rajoy governed and there was an attempted coup d’état by the Catalan secessionists. Belgium and Germany even broke Euro-orders to help the coup plotters. You only have to compare it with the support that Sánchez receives, despite the innumerable unacceptable facets of him and the debt hole. No, this support for Sánchez is not an advantage for Spain, but a detriment derived from the lack of pressure that we exert on the EU. Only our dysfunctionality is supported.

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So we come to the center of my approach. Should we simply accept that Sánchez continue to receive support and see his resume whitewashed with the European presidency?

I do not think so. I think that we Spaniards have to learn to be European. But true Europeans, of those who do not hesitate to defend their interests. Pressing if necessary. And Spain is interested in a Sánchez presidency as much as Argentina is interested in honoring Kirchnerism or Venezuela in whitewashing Maduro. No interest.

And how can we press? With complaints in Spain and the EU, with demonstrations against the presidency of a corrupt, untrustworthy president, incapable of respecting the principles of democracy, against the presidency of a hypocrite who one day calls himself a defender of women and the next day frees rapists, a corrupt man who runs a party that embezzles European funds and is associated with practices such as prostitution…

It is necessary to make all the countries of the EU see that if they support the presidency of Sánchez without further ado, without showing opposition, they will be mired with him in his many vices. They will be stained by that silence. And they will not be able to plead ignorance, as politicians usually like to do, since the situation was denounced from Spain and a reaction was required. They have to know that they too will lose something, not just the Spanish people.

So let’s not fear false damage to the image and interests of Spain. There is no worse image or anything less practical for a country than accepting being governed by someone like Sánchez. If Europe wants to be a great Europe, we have to make it clear that it cannot be formed by raising people like Sánchez to power.

And with a bit of luck… they could even force Sánchez to advance the elections. After all, Europe controls our media and media are who support or not politicians.

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