The deputy secretary of the Autonomous and Local Coordination and Electoral Analysis of the PP, Elías Bendodo, accused this Friday the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezof “fascism” for having opened a “dirty war” and a “general purge” against “uncomfortable” media and judges, as if they were in the “former Soviet Union”.
The former spokesman for the Council of Andalusia spoke to the media in Cordoba, after the government presented its self-proclaimed Action Plan for Democracy last Tuesday, which includes dangerous coincidences with the press laws of the dictator Francisco Franco.
The law has been harshly criticized by popularwho have called it a “democratic plan of degeneration.” The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has already pointed the finger at Sánchez for trying to impose “censorship” in our country.
Bendodo followed the same line, accusing the socialist of unleashing a “dirty war against journalists, judges and against everything that is uncomfortable for him”, which “is reminiscent of other regimes”. “There is a general purge against those who are uncomfortable, as in the former Soviet Union”, he stressed.
“Sanchez says he will fight against hoaxes and against the media fake And what worries him is not the media that tells fake news, but the media that tells the truth about him and his government and the corruption that surrounds it, about his party and the corruption that surrounds it, and about his family environment and the corruption that surrounds him,” the leader concluded. popular.
Bendodo insisted that Sánchez “is afraid” of journalists who tell the truth and “wants to cover his mouth” by unleashing “a dirty war against the media, against judges and against everything that makes Sánchez uncomfortable.” “And that is fascism,” he said.
Venezuela
In addition, Bendodo demanded “explanations” from former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero after the “scandal” at the Spanish embassy in Venezuela, where there was a “new link” with the “regime” of Nicolas Maduro to accept the departure from the country of “the person who won the elections” of July 28, Edmundo González.
The Chief popular He called this new connection with Venezuela an “absolute scandal.” “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it had not negotiated anything with the Maduro regime and, however, in one of our diplomatic centers, that is, in the Spanish embassy in Caracas, the departure of the one who won the elections was agreed,” he said, referring to Edmundo González. “The Spanish ambassador to Venezuela witnessed coercion and our embassy was the place where these coercions took place,” he denounced.
Bendodo stressed that the European Parliament approved a resolution recognizing Edmundo González as the legitimate winner of the presidential elections in Venezuela and that “the socialists, like those in Portugal,” voted in favor of this initiative.
The deputy secretary added that Zapatero had to give “many explanations” to clarify “on behalf of whom he is negotiating with the government of Venezuela, if he has an economic benefit for the work he does, if anyone pays him, how he has acted in this matter.” of the embassy and if he sent someone to facilitate this meeting and the signing of this document” by Edmundo González. “I think it is an indignity that a Spanish president exercises great power lobbyist Latin American dictatorships. As in the end everything is known, one day we will know why,” Bendodo said.
