Former PSOE ministers, "alarmed" at the "desertion of their constitutional commitments" by the Government of Sánchez

A total of

have signed a manifesto against the Government in which they charge against the recent reforms that it has carried out of

or the attempt to modify the system of election of the Constitutional Court, warning that the regime of liberties to follow this governmental and legislative dynamic.

Among the signatories are former socialist and

ministers , writers, journalists, business lawyers or ambassadors, among others.

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In the aforementioned manifesto they call on the PSOE to recover its historical project, which led it to contribute to the elaboration and support of the

and urge many socialists, today "silent", who observe "alarmed" to raise their voices. this process of defection from their constitutional commitments";

to the PP so that it fulfills its constitutional duties without any resignation;

to the media, to intellectuals and also to Spanish society as a whole, especially young people to "react civically" to these government and legislative policies so that they stop this "erosion".

The aforementioned manifesto addresses "Spanish society in the face of the constitutional challenge" and warns that democracy in Spain, as in any country, "is never irreversible."

In this sense, they point out that the government coalition, chaired by Pedro Sánchez and supported by the independence groups, "has broken the historical project of the PSOE" committed to complying with the letter and spirit of the 1978 Constitution. Although they do not detect, they say, that there is in the Spanish right "adequate energy, proposals or discourse to resolve the current situation".

They add that the decisions of the Government, where Podemos appears - which proposes a plurinational model of a confederal nature - "coincides with the claim of Basque and Catalan secessionism to flagrantly break the Constitution."

"If these purposes were to prosper, we would be at the gates of a process that would end up destroying the Spanish political nation," the manifesto warns.

'ad hoc' laws

The text adds that in accordance with this "destructive logic" legislative initiatives are being produced that promote a "mutation that transgresses the separation of powers, deprives the Cortes Generales of their democratic primacy, deactivates essential powers of the Constitutional Court and suppresses qualified majorities and quorums. in the General Council of the Judiciary, breaking the system of inalienable counterweights that guarantee the democratic authenticity of our Magna Carta".

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, to those responsible for the seditious acts in Catalonia in the months of September and October 2017."

With this, they ensure that "in addition, the integrity of the Constitution is criminally unprotected and violates the principle of generality of legal norms."

They also cite the attempts to reform the organic laws of the Constitutional Court and the Judiciary, through a bill that "avoids the advisory technical reports, disempowers the institutional system from technical-legal controls and allows the parliamentary majority to favor a process of demolition of the Constitution, as well as the block of organic laws that develop it".

The signatories affirm that this "technique of emptying

is typical of democracies that, initially liberal, are perverted to become illiberal regimes."

And they warn that if this governmental and legislative dynamic persists, the spirit that encouraged the constituents to create in 1978 a social and democratic State of law, three separate and cooperative State powers, and a parliamentary monarchy, "would be seriously eroded and the country would return to the worst times in its history when the attempt to consolidate a regime of freedoms, in accordance with the unwavering schemes of democracies, was declared unsuccessful once again."

Populist leaders and systems

The manifesto warns that passivity and indifference is "incompatible" with the responsible exercise of citizenship and believes that whoever marginalizes feeling alien to events will discover too late that "they have headed down the path of voluntary servitude", given that a "strong movement that hands over democratic powers to so-called populist leaders and systems" is growing in the West and also in Spain.

Among the 255 signatories to the manifesto, who ask all citizens who wish to second it, are prominent journalists such as

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political analysts like

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lawyers like

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professors like

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lawyers like Elisa de la Nuez, or

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ambassadors such as

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or businessmen like

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There are also numerous former PSOE and PP ministers among the signatories such as César Antonio Molina, José Luis Corcuera,

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writers such as

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the former president of CES

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the former president of the CNMV

or the former director of the CNI,

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To them are added socialist meanings such as the former president of the Community of Madrid,

, now expelled from the PSOE;

the former general secretary of the PSE, Nicolás Redondo or

, who was part of the PSOE Executive until 1989;

, MEP for Citizens

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the former deputy in the European Parliament

or the former Minister of Culture and Ombudsman,

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