The Spanish people are going to the polls this month for what is expected to be a resounding rebuke of a Socialist government that seems hell-bent on turning their country into Europe’s Venezuela. Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez calls for “following the progressive lead” set by recent left-wing victories in the U.S. and Brazil, but Spaniards appear headed the opposite way. Conservative election victories are also projected in general elections coming up in France and other European countries, jeopardizing the Globalist left’s hold on the EU.
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Spain’s conservative PP and right-wing Vox parties are anticipated to score about double the number of seats as the Socialists in the next parliament, according to recent opinion polls. Sánchez is trying all kinds of gimmicks to fend off the avalanche. He has pressured the courts to extend the vote to the sons of the sons of exiles who settled overseas following last century’s civil war, but even their estimated 189,000 ballots would come short of compensating for the almost 900,000 voters his party is expected to lose, according to Reuters. (READ NEXT: Welcome to the Far Right)
It’s nice to be a progressive socialist. You get all the money you want and the protection of transnational institutions.
Sánchez has even taken to aping Venezuela’s late Hugo Chávez, shedding his Italian suit for a football jersey at rallies and using official venues to push for an unprecedented general strike against the conservative opposition. Despite $35 million in government money given to socialist and communist trade unions, the strike this week had scarce following. Street protesters in Madrid were largely students. Most other people showed up for work even at government agencies. In traditionally left-wing Barcelona, almost 80 percent of public transport was operating, and one worker angered by picket lines told the digital newspaper El Español that it made him even more determined to “throw out Sánchez,” saying that Spain had become “Venezuela under a mask.” (READ NEXT: Sánchez Calls Early Elections in Spain: ‘Pour Me Another Whisky!’)
A series of recent disasters have shocked Spaniards into the painful realization that they may now be paying for socialist corruption with their blood. Following the invasion of Ceuta this summer by African hordes attracted by Sánchez’s open migration policies, train crashes that killed almost 200 people have exposed high levels of incompetence and graft that could turn Spain into a dysfunctional state. (READ NEXT: Spain’s Pedro Sánchez and the Media’s Ceuta Invasion Blind Spot)
Sixty-nine people were crushed to death last month when a state-operated high-speed train collided with another stalled on Spain’s most used railway line connecting Madrid with the southern city of Seville. It turns out that the line’s computerized alarm system had not been updated or revised since 1993, and the control center was understaffed. This is despite EU subsidies of over $150 million allocated to Spain for infrastructure maintenance, which the government has had some difficulty accounting for. The latest disaster came just months after broken tracks caused an equally fatal train derailment on the same high-speed line.
The government had apparently dismantled the railway company’s security inspection unit last year, according to the newspaper ABC, appointing Socialist Party politicians without any technical expertise to management positions. There are further allegations of a cover-up to conceal the causes of last January’s derailment, ordered by the transport minister who resigned following the latest crash. PP leader Alberto Feijóo is demanding a full court investigation. “They seemed mainly interested in raising earnings of the board of directors,” said Feijóo. “Obviously, we have to get to the bottom of this.”
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The bottom is deep. The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) is the oldest political party in Spain. Vox leader Santiago Abascal says that “it’s the only party whose name dates back to the civil war,” when it led the communist-dominated Second Republic. PSOE was revived by Europe’s ruling social democratic parties and brought Spain into the EU during the 1980s, receiving billions of dollars in subsidies to modernize the country’s infrastructure. Over a tenth of the money went into the party’s coffers. (READ NEXT: Europe’s Hard Left at Its Most Dangerous)
A private investigation commissioned through a London intelligence firm into a start-up road-building contractor, which was receiving a large chunk of EU infrastructure financing in the province of Murcia, revealed that 15 percent of the funds were being funneled into the PSOE treasury. Shoddy road construction was evident to the naked eye. An official of the socialist trade union, UGT, said that cheap labor was being imported from Morocco, construction materials were below standard, and there was virtually no quality control. (READ NEXT: What’s Wrong With Spain? It’s Pedro Sánchez.)
The EU clearly knows all this but has never publicly called out the PSOE on corruption, as opposed to its treatment of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and other right-wing European governments whom it has blocked from receiving EU funds, hounded from office, and even backed judicial coups like that now taking place in Poland. Instead, it’s been funneling more and more infrastructure funding to Spain with virtually no auditing, although the Spanish newspaper La Razón has recently reported that the government received inquiries over $50 million from the EU’s “New Generation” for cyber development that were never spent.
One can’t really blame Sánchez. It’s nice to be a progressive socialist. You get all the money you want and the protection of transnational institutions. The establishment media doesn’t hassle you, building you up instead as a leader against the fascist right. There is rock-solid assurance that they won’t go after any scandal unless it involves Trump. Sánchez is cleared on that. He is “the leader of western opposition to Trump,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
Spaniards aren’t buying it anymore. There is fear in some quarters that if he does manage to pull some trick to stay in office, as he has done by Scotch-taping alliances with regional separatists and far leftists over the past eight years, the EU will back him.
Ernest Hemingway once observed that “if the Spanish people have one streak in common it is pride and if they have another it is common sense.” They seem unlikely to follow the example of Minnesotans just electing a lieutenant governor to the U.S. Senate who looked away as billions in tax dollars got siphoned into a welfare scam.
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