As he feels more cornered by his judicial responsibility in the Dina case , Pablo Iglesias attacks with more violence against those who report the scandal to citizens. It is not that Iglesias ignores the institutional decorum that obliges him as Vice President of the Government: it is that he is in politics to subvert it . It is not that Iglesias has hidden his rupture intentions or his admiration for regimes outside the division of powers: perhaps he has modulated it in electoral periods to camouflage his radicalism among selective constitutional whispers. Not that Iglesias makes personal mistakes that completely challenge the regenerative ideology he preached: it is that from the beginning it has considered imposture and cynicism as legitimate revolutionary instruments to achieve the only valid end, which is the obtaining and conservation of power and the colonization of the largest possible number of state structures. And it is not that Sánchez did not know all this, that already in his day it took away his sleep: it is that he needed to hug Iglesias to survive his own electoral fiasco. Seven months after that hug, insomnia has been socialized among all Spaniards in the form of increasing democratic degradation.

It is difficult to find precedents of harassment of journalists - with names and surnames - such as that deployed yesterday by an entire vice president from Moncloa who calls for "naturalizing the insult." Far from adopting the humble attitude that the sordid facts of his case known so far would advise, and in the face of the shameful passivity of María Jesús Montero, Juan Carlos Campo and José Luis Ábalos -who do nothing but follow Sánchez-, Iglesias took advantage of the press conference after the Council of Ministers to redouble its challenge to the free press that fulfills its role by revealing the reprehensible behavior of power. It is embarrassing that the leader of the party that introduced escrache in the streets and lynching in the networks into Spanish politics , and that today occupies the third place in the Executive, presents himself as a victim of the media, without which he would not be today no one. Victimism in a populist is the reverse of bullying: that is why Iglesias invents a tortuous distinction between "criticism", which would be what Echenique does, and "signaling", which would be what Vox does. Nothing Vox does in that field that he has not learned from Podemos. And in any case, he who holds the power to be supervised is he.

But Iglesias's problem is not with the press: he only conceives of it as an allied or enemy propaganda weapon. His problem as imputable is with the judge whom he has tried to deceive by presenting himself as injured for electoral purposes. And he has it, always, with freedom.

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