But what does Sánchez really want? The 18 oddities of his “Action Plan for Democracy”

Why risk defeat in the Congress of Deputies when a good part of its measures Action Plan for Democracy Do they copy those of the European regulation?

2. This European regulation, approved by a large majority of socialists and populars in the European Parliament, is not particularly favorable to freedom of the press and expression (“the best press law is the one that does not exist” journalists always tell us). Especially in its section “Fight against disinformation”, which for the EU includes everything from Russian poisonings to an interview with Elon Musk has Donald Trump.

So, if well managed, this regulation would have left the president with a wide margin of action in his objective of controlling the capricious press.

Come on, the easiest solution was to transpose it, and then let self-censorship work on its own. Why Sánchez did not do so remains a mystery.

3. Regarding the measures not included in the European regulation, how does Sánchez intend to approve them? Does the president really believe that the PNV or the Junts will agree to be supervised by the National Commission for Markets and Competition?

Does the President believe that this immense ecosystem of digital channels, radio and television in regional minority languages, without readers, without viewers, and of course without criticism of cantonal power, lives on “transparency”, or rather on the most absolute opacity?

4. The greatest irony of all, and the one that should make all Spaniards laugh at the president’s supposed concern for “good journalism”, “transparency” and “plurality”, is that his Action Plan for Democracy was undemocratically leaked to two Sanchist media outlets before the appearance of Felix Bolanos And Ernest Urtasun.

How to quantify, when measuring “real” audiences, doping government leaks to its friendly media?

5. Ironically, the plan to save the princess of journalism from the clutches of the hoax monster was explained by Urtasun, the unofficial leader of a party that wants to end private media, restrict freedom of expression to the point of reducing it to a joke and crush the citizens’ right to information, which in their minds is not freedom, but debauchery.

Wasn’t it? Nicolas Maduro on site to present the plan?

6. Sánchez wants to force the parties to participate in the electoral debates, whether they want to or not. The goal, of course, is to get the photo of Feijoo like the ham in a sandwich whose Bimbo bread on the right would be Santiago Abascal and the Bimbo bread on his left, alvis. With this photo and the writing of the SER, Sánchez makes you win an election.

7. The problem, of course, lies in the way this is formulated. Because the PSOE of Shoemaker He once tried something similar, but eventually abandoned the project due to the impossibility of carrying it out consistently.

What debates? Where? With what format? With what participants? Moderated by whom? What will the government do if someone refuses to appear? Ask the Civil Guard to drag him to the television studio and throw him at the feet of Silvia Intxaurrondo And Xavier Fortes?

8. The plan includes 31 measures whose implementation will require at least five ministries, the Cortes Generales, the National Commission for Markets and Competition and the Secretary of State for Communication, in addition to the complicity, if not the submission, of the very victims of regulation: the media.

And this will be achieved by a government incapable of approving its general budgets or preventing the Congress of Deputies from recognizing the electoral victory of Edmundo Gonzalez in the Venezuelan presidential elections on July 18.

9. Good luck to the government in defining what is and is not media in the 21st century.

10. Good luck also in defining what constitutes “good journalism” without the label of liars, manipulators, drug addicts and bigots. Some media and public organizations are failing. But if we have to talk about La 1, Radio Nacional de España, EFE or CIS, without forgetting TV-3 or Euskal Irrati Telebista, let’s talk about them. Good journalists will be happy to participate in this debate and provide tons of examples of trash journalism.

11. How does the Government intend to manipulate, because that is its ultimate goal, the audience measurement agencies so that they benefit their main media? How many changes in methodology will be necessary, and in what direction, for the donkey to sing? In other words, for Comscore, GfK and Google Analytics to say that The country is in front of EL ESPAÑOL.

12. Do these limits on the funding that public administrations can devote to the media, so that there are no media promoted or dependent on public administrations, include public media or do they only work for private media? Do you work for the Moncloa media? Are you operating for regional language media with a decreasing number of speakers? Or will there be “positive discrimination” exceptions for all?

13. The president who has only held one State of the Union debate in his seven years in office (that happened in 2022) says he’s going to make it mandatory once a year. You’ll have to believe him. When has Sanchez ever lied?

14. The government wants to force private pollsters to publish microdata from their surveys. There will of course be no problem. Although the most interesting thing would be to know the macro-manipulations of the CEI.

15. Proof that Sánchez does not care about the quality of the information that the Spanish receive is that his project foresees the creation of a commission in the Congress of Deputies on disinformation, the secret weapon that all governments use when they want that solution X to problem Y lasts for Z time.

16. Sánchez’s plan also proposes “to address a comprehensive reform of the articles of the Penal Code that may affect the right to freedom of expression and artistic creation.”

Let me translate it for you: from now on, you will be able to insult, harass, defame and call for the extermination of the Royal Family, the Church, the State security forces and agencies and any other social group that can be described as “right-wing” or “extreme right.”

But be careful not to joke about the menas, by calling for an end to tolerance towards squatters or by demanding the repatriation of illegal immigrants, because he’s going to be prosecuted for hate crime shortly.

17. “Approval of a national strategy to combat disinformation campaigns” states Pedro Sánchez’s plan. I repeat: Pedro Sánchez’s. I repeat it for the third time, in case it is not clear: Pedro Sánchez says he is going to combat disinformation campaigns. Yes, that Pedro Sánchez. The one from Moncloa.

18. But do you know the funniest thing of all? That not a single one of the 31 measures of the Action Plan for Democracy This will help prevent hoaxes, misinformation or poisoning campaigns. Of course, not those of the government and its mainstream media.. But neither do those of others.

It is not that these hoaxes, disinformation or poisoning campaigns are a real problem (the free market managed them without problem until Sánchez became president of the government). But even accepting the initial principle, namely the supposed good will of the government, this plan is a bluff.

To end disinformation It would be enough to call general elections. The hand of the saint