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The naturalness with which Podemos celebrates that the PSOE has assimilated and reproduced its attack speech on judges and that it emulates its questioning of decisions in the field of Justice, such as that of the Constitutional Court (TC), can be summed up in this sentence What

Pablo Echenique

said yesterday

: «I have not said anything different from what the PSOE spokesman,

Felipe Sicilia

, said last week.

We can describe it as we want, but that a blow has been dealt to Parliament is obvious.

Ione Belarra. EUROPA PRESS

"FINALLY" (12-17-2022).

"Finally, the PSOE recognizes the obvious, that the right conspires against the constitutional order."

The words to which the United Podemos spokesman refers marked a turning point last Thursday in that drift of the PSOE.

"41 years ago," he said in the context of the first meeting of the TC, "the right already wanted to stop a plenary session of Congress and democracy with three-cornered hats and now they are trying again with togas."

"Democracy has only been in danger with the right: in 1936 with a military coup, then in 1981 with

Tejero

and now with the PP," he concluded.

Pablo Iglesias. EUROPE PRESS

"ENEMY" JUDGES (01-04-202O).

«The Government will have many enemies [...] some robed who will put forward their reactionary ideology regarding Law.

You must defend democracy with the law.

His comparison between

23-F

and the TC's deliberation on the amparo appeal against the Government's judicial reform procedure took a direction that Pedro Sánchez followed, giving his approval to the current verbal escalation.

He described the situation as a "violation of democracy", whose responsibility was "not only the political right but also the judicial one, cheered on by the media", and denounced an unprecedented "plot" by "the right and the extreme right".

"Democracy will prevail against the outrage either by conservative magistrates, the political right or the media that has attempted this unspeakable operation."

In addition, he warned the TC that what was "expected" of him was that "common sense prevail and the Constitution prevail", but just the opposite of what he settled on Monday.

Pedro Sánchez. Europa Press

"RUN OVER" (12-15-2022).

"Democracy will prevail against the outrage either by conservative magistrates, the political right or the media that has attempted this unspeakable operation."

This journey of the PSOE delegitimizing judicial decisions by contrasting them with "democracy" or placing a conjunctural "popular sovereignty" of Congress above the constitutional pact emulates a discourse that the independence movement installed during the

process

and with which Podemos has been hammering for a few years years to the pillars of the political system.

Pablo Echenique. JAVI MARTÍNEZ

"COUP TO PARLIAMENT" (12-20-2022).

"A judiciary without democratic legitimacy has dealt a blow to the legislative branch."

That seed was buried by Pablo Iglesias in his speech at the inauguration of Sánchez, on January 4, 2020, when he placed as "enemies" of this Government "robeds" who would interpose their "reactionary ideology" against "the Law".

About to be three years old, there are the outbreaks, watered during this time by hundreds of statements in which Podemos warned that the opposition to the Executive "is being exercised by the judges", as Ione Belarra warned, and that in the courts There are "faces in a gown" trying to sabotage the progressive measures, as the purple party said with the reductions in penalties of the law of

only yes is yes

.

That without counting the multiple occasions in which Podemos adjudicates a supposed

lawfare

-the use of judges as a political weapon to discredit and persecute the rival- the decisions adopted by the courts against them.

Patxi López. EUROPA PRESS

CONSERVATIVE "DRIFT" (12-15-2022).

"It is radically undemocratic";

"For a long time, the drift of the right and some conservative judges is frankly worrying."

As soon as the decision of the TC to paralyze the reform in the Senate was known, the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, presented the judges as prevaricating for breaking the laws.

«The law does not give the TC the possibility of paralyzing the actions of the Cortes Generales.

Moreover, this power existed, and in 1985 it was repealed precisely to prevent parliamentarians from debating and approving issues.

What was intended to be avoided has just happened today [Monday]”.

Jaume Asens.EFE

"ULTRA JUDGES" (12-20-2022).

"We will not allow some ultras PP judges to seize power from the people."

Ander Gil

, also a socialist

, president of the Senate, was also very harsh.

"A difficult return step is being taken in the degradation of our democratic system," he said, to finish off that the TC "disnaturalizes its function, seriously damaging its institutional position and, therefore, the operation of the rule of law as a whole" .

Felipe Jesus Sicilia.EFE

COUP D'ETAT "WITH TOGAS" (12-15-2022).

"41 years ago the right already wanted to stop a plenary session of Congress and democracy with three-cornered hats and now they are trying again with togas."

The socialist spokesman in Congress,

Patxi López

, delegitimized the TC's decision by calling it "an unprecedented interference in the Legislative Branch."

And he delved into discrediting the TC, assuring that it has "entrenched judges in positions that do not correspond to them, making decisions that do not correspond to them."

"I believe that there is no more evident case of being a judge and party," he said.

The escalation of the PSOE since Thursday, with Sánchez at the helm, led Belarra to celebrate, as general secretary of Podemos, her adherence to the

purple

speech .

"Until these last few days, only Podemos and the Catalan and Basque independence forces have explicitly denounced the coup strategy of the reactionary bloc," he said, but the "unprecedented challenge of the right wing of the TC to

Parliament

has finally made both the PSOE as in the media progressives begin to recognize the obvious, that the right has abandoned the legal framework and that it conspires against the constitutional order and democracy ».

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