It has become fashionable on the right to accuse Sánchez of “colonizing” the institutions. The problem with the PP, as with almost all issues in which it seeks to impose itself as a moral authority, is that no one beats the “colonizer.”
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I don’t know how this trend of accusing Pedro Sánchez of being a colonizer began. The fact is that I continue to read and hear in the right-wing media that the president of the government is “colonizing” the institutions. I put the verb in quotation marks because I have learned in the profession that certain expressions must be put in quotation marks to make it clear to the reader that they are not assumed by the medium that publishes them. The right-wing media to which I refer do not put quotation marks: they have decided to appropriate the term and repeat it like trained parrots, just as they do with many arguments that come to them from Genoa or the Puerta del Sol. “Sánchez aspires to colonize more than a third of the Supreme Court if he seizes the appointments of the judges of the CGPJ,” was the headline of one of these media in June. “First blow dealt by justice to Sánchez for his attempt to colonize the Treasury,” headlined another newspaper in July. In May, the PP published a statement containing statements by the secretary general of its group in Congress, Macarena Montesinos, in which, with an ease that Ayuso would envy, she declared that “Sánchez has colonized all the independent institutions of the State with friends.” or recommended by Begoña Gómez.
As I write these lines, the holy political-media alliance is denouncing the latest episode of “colonization”: the appointment by Sánchez of the current former minister Escriva as governor of the Bank of Spain. “This is how Sánchez colonizes institutions: ‘He places his like-minded people in independent positions'”, is the headline of a newspaper that, with great rigor, cites a statement that seems to be taken from Mr. Fuentes del Entorno but forgets to do so with the predatory action that it attributes to the president. The PP leader has obviously joined the anti-colonial wave and affirms that he will not negotiate the name of the vice-governor of the bank.
I suppose that the choice of the term to attack the left was born from a brainstorming session of the PP. At least, I don’t know if they imported it from the United States: I Googled “Biden” and “colonizer” and only a few references to the West Bank appear. It is possible that a wise political scientist among the Harvard graduates in Aravaca who swarm in the communications offices thought: “Since the woke up “They keep shouting against colonialism, let’s give them the same medicine and say that Sánchez is a colonizer.” And the event continues. The fact is that, whatever the origin of the strategy, the cascading effect of the message has worked and the right already has its army of zombies on social networks and in bars who attack Sánchez’s “colonialism” in the same way. In recent months, they have shouted “let Txapote vote for you”, “and what about Flacon”, “Begoño” or “they have ruined Spain”. We must see how our right-wing masses behave when anti-colonialism enters them; If it is not explained to them in time that what happened between the 16th and 19th centuries in America was not colonialism, but rather a generous transfer of values from a superior civilization to an inferior one, as Abascal maintains, they are capable of setting fire to the tomb of Don Diego Fernández de Córdova, viceroy of New Mexico and Peru.
The problem with the PP, as with almost all issues on which it seeks to impose itself as a moral authority, is that no one beats the “colonizer.” For starters, the party was founded by former ministers of a colonization brutal institutional reform that has lasted almost four decades and that the popular have been unable to clearly condemn, even if they repeat that they have already done so in that non-law proposal of calculated ambiguity approved in Congress in 2002. And what can be done? we say about the colonization by Aznar of the large companies privatized in the 90s, in which he entrusted the management to people from his circle of trust, among them his office friend Juan Villalonga, who, since the presidency of Telefónica, has tried to ride the bulls and rush into the checkbook. a communications center at the service of the PP. Vague colonization of the General Council of the Judiciary, which the PP held hostage for five years to prevent it from reflecting the changes that occurred in Congress after the general elections. Vague colonization of a sector of the Rajoy government’s police force, which allowed illegal spying on political opponents – notably Podemos and the Catalan independence movement – and even the PP treasurer himself who threatened to reveal compromising data on the party’s corruption. Vague colonization Galician media with which Núñez Feijóo ensured, through publicity, a peaceful and supposedly successful presidency. Vague colonization of the Madrid media troupe that publishes without touching a comma the e-mails who arrive from Puerta del Sol.
I cannot think of a more faithful and austere portrait of colonialism institutional than these anthological words of the former president of the Community of Madrid Ignacio González to the former minister Eduardo Zaplana: “Come on, Eduardo. We have the Government, the Ministry of Justice, I don’t know what and so on. And listen, we have a provisional judge… You promote him. I tell you, come here. What is your position? Onteniente, kiss Onteniente, and here comes the owner, I’m going to take care of the owner, damn it.” After this beautiful conversation, included in the summary of the Lezo case, the provisional judge of the central investigating court number 6 of the National Court, Eloy Velasco, who was advancing in the corruption investigation against González, was transferred and the owner, Manuel, responded García Castellón, who, as a good soldier, agreed to give up the life of a father who had been a liaison judge in Paris and Rome for 17 years to undertake his new professional stage, less well paid.
It is not for nothing that no one can reach the PP as a “colonizer.” At his side, Sánchez is a modest Quaker colonist from the plains of Virginia.
