“Try not to vote by mail.” That is the warning issued to citizens by Santiago Abascal, leader of the right-wing party Vox, and Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid (PP). In other words, faced with Pedro Sánchez’s call for early elections on November 29, the opposition’s immediate reaction was to warn Spaniards of the extreme risk of electoral fraud. After eight years of far-left rule, Spanish democracy now looks like a cheap knock-off bought on AliExpress.
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The risk of election theft is real. Sánchez previously cheated in his own party’s primaries, and he has now attempted to alter the electoral roll through a law that would allow several generations of descendants of Spaniards who have never set foot in Spain to vote; a law that, fortunately, the Supreme Court has halted for the time being. Why on earth would an Argentine, the great-grandson of a Spaniard but the son and grandson of Argentines, who has never visited Spain and never will, want to vote in Spanish elections? For no good reason.
The campaign atmosphere will not be democratic or peaceful, either. For now, the trade unions, which have remained silent for eight years, have called a general strike to protest against opposition to the government. In short, they intend to set the streets ablaze in the weeks leading up to the election, because, as former Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero once said when caught on a hot mic, “It is convenient to have tension.” The Spanish Left on the campaign trail is like a perpetual BLM.
We are prepared for anything. During the 2021 Madrid regional election campaign, just as the Right was poised to secure a majority, several ministers received mysterious anonymous letters containing bullets or knives. They then made the rounds of television studios, raising great alarm, even though the whole thing turned out to be a staged stunt. They are good scriptwriters, in the sense that they have imagination, but they tend to treat viewers like idiots, and that ultimately undermines the success of the movie.
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Ousting Sánchez is crucial not only for Spain but also for Europe and the United States. Sánchez is an impoverishing force. He does not honor his commitments to his allies. He has attempted to deceive the EU on multiple occasions, and the only reason he has not been publicly discredited by Brussels is, I assume, because that Magpie Ursula von der Leyen is secretly in love with him. Sánchez has been an ally of Iran and of every Islamist and communist dictatorship. He has promoted illegal immigration into Europe and, consequently, the free movement of jihadists into the Old Continent. Sánchez is involved in shady dealings with Venezuela that are still under judicial investigation. He is the most anti-Semitic head of government in the entire West. And he is a declared enemy of the United States under Donald Trump’s presidency.
The United States, for its part, possesses a wealth of information about the Spanish government. Undoubtedly, it has compromising information about dealings with Nicolás Maduro and Delcy Rodríguez, as well as sensitive information obtained when Moroccan intelligence hacked the prime minister’s mobile phone. Ultimately, the United States has numerous resources at its disposal to expose the true face of the man who has spent eight years ruining the Spanish people. Doing so would not constitute interference in a foreign electoral process, but rather preventing interference in a foreign electoral process. After all, it is already hard to tell who holds the reins of Sánchez’s Spain: Morocco, which Sánchez has by the balls, or rather by his hacked mobile phone; China; Iran; or any other country where freedom of expression causes headaches and leads to strange bone fractures.
The call for a snap election in Spain is great news. I have been drunk since I heard the news, and I might as well keep the celebrations going for a few more days. Yet even amidst this massive hangover, it is worth warning the world that this guy will try anything, and I mean anything, to win the election, even though current polls suggest he stands no chance. Those of us who cherish freedom have but one consolation: Sánchez is no great political strategist; he is just shameless. With his downfall, the West will be a little freer, Spaniards will return to their cheerful, fun-loving ways, and Spain will become a solid ally of the West.
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