Coinciding with the Armed Forces Day, celebrated this Saturday and inevitably marked by the circumstances imposed by the pandemic, the King delivered a speech in which he emphasized the "deep identification of the Spanish people" with the Army. His resounding statement comes in a week in which the Army and the Civil Guard have been in the midst of political conflict as a result of the irresponsibility of a government incapable of quenching its desire to control the state apparatus.. The Interior Minister, who should have already submitted his resignation or been removed, has caused the worst internal crisis in the Benemérita since Luis Roldán's time, while Podemos launched insidious attacks against an eventual insubordination of the army. All these samples of partisan trappiness must be framed in the undisguised will of Sánchez and Iglesias to instrumentalize public bodies. In the same way that PSOE and Podemos have put RTVE or the CIS at their service, it is evident that the dismissal of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos -after pressuring him to reveal the content of a judicialized report- and the unacceptable suspicions launched by the vice president and other Podemos ministers on the role of the Army certify the illiberal drift of the social communist Executive. Added to this are the embarrassing coercion exercised within the State Bar, as this newspaper has revealed, not only regarding the investigation of Judge Rodríguez-Medel in the summary of 8-M, but in all the action of the Public Ministry.

Pointing out dissidents, questioning the critical press, muddying the public debate with rude disqualification, and sponsoring interventionist measures of a clear Peronist sign - taking advantage of the catastrophe caused by Covid - are characteristics of a radical and populist government, far from what Spanish democracy had been until Sánchez reached power. Tomorrow is two years since the motion of censure. It is clear evidence that Spain has worsened in everything since then, with a special aggravation of the discredit of the institutions. Neither officials can submit to partisan pressure, nor does the rule of law defend itself by staining the Army and the Civil Guard . Institutions, as Felipe VI remarked yesterday, that have been up to the task during the pandemic and that are guarantors of the Constitution, freedom and peace.

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