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A manifesto that warns against "the deterioration of democracy", "the imposition of a single thought" and in which it is affirmed that the "unity of Spain is in danger" has been signed by 271 retired soldiers.

The document, to which Efe has had access, is headed by Lieutenant General

Emilio Pérez Alamán

, Admiral

José María Treviño

and Lieutenant General

Juan Antonio Álvarez Jiménez

, and has been signed by generals, officers, legionaries and soldiers.

Those who subscribe stand out from other similar initiatives: "The signatories of this Declaration want to express their complete dissociation and displeasure with what has been expressed in a private 'chat' - disseminated in various media - alien to our feeling and essence as soldiers".

However, they say they share "the same concerns" as their colleagues from the XIX Promotion of the Air Force and the XXIII of the General Military Academy of the Army, exposed by each one in letters to the President of the European Parliament and to the King of Spain. ".

They accuse the Government of accepting "the contempt for Spain, the humiliation of its symbols, the contempt for the King and the attacks on his effigy

." favors to terrorists with the consequent contempt for their victims, "skirting" current legislation, "seeking" submission to the Executive Branch of the Judiciary, including the State Attorney General, "and trying to" impose a single thought "with laws such as the Democratic Memory.

They add that "as soldiers, who are still in the situation of retired, we keep active the Oath that we took in its day to guarantee the sovereignty and independence of Spain and defend its territorial integrity and constitutional order, giving our lives if necessary" .

"Although by age we cannot exercise our vocation as soldiers in Units, we have recovered the fundamental rights that we voluntarily renounced when embracing the Arms race.

Among them, the freedom of opinion and expression that allows us to sign this declaration

, which warns of the risks to which those responsible for directing the future of Spain are subjecting our country, "argues the manifesto. The signatories reiterate their loyalty to the king as the supreme command of the armed forces.

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