For the benefit of orphans, orphans and the poor of the capital
The orphans, the orphans and the poor of the capital
The chorus sung by `The mothers of the lambin Castanet 70a satirical comedy released in 1970 and closed after the fifth week by the government authority, portrayed charitable gestures of the living forces in Franco’s time popularized in ‘For Christmas, have a poor person sit at your table’. Fifty-four years later, the Minister of Digital Transition and Public Service, Oscar Lopeztogether with the nuncio of His Holiness, Bernardito Cleopas, conversed paternally with 150 needy diners at the Christmas Eve dinner offered by Father Ángel to homeless people, this year in the honor box of the Bernabéu. Minister López has thus shown the last of the symptoms Francoists registered in the Sanchista government during 2024.
Last April 27, during Pedro Sánchez’s fourth day of “reflection,” the echo of the cheers of his followers on Ferraz Street arrived at the room where the federal committee of the PSOE listened to the fiery words by María Jesús Montero. “Pedro, we will defend you in the street, in every workplace, conspirators to fight against misinformation,” said the deputy general secretary of the party and Minister of Finance, while those gathered on public roads hailed the President of the Government with posters of Sánchez continues, yesstickers with ¡QEEEDATE! and exclamations of “Hold on Pedro” or “Don’t give up”
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Signs of unwavering adhesion
They were demonstrations in the line of unwavering adherence to the dictator Franco in the celebrations of the Leader’s Day every October 1st. The banner Now more than ever we want our Franco to send usexhibited in 1946 in the Plaza de Oriente amid cries of “Franco yes, Communism no” or another from 1970 that read The unions with Francohid feelings of loyalty similar to those of the paced slogans through the center of Madrid on April 27, like that of Active militancy of Toledo with Pedro Sánchez o I am with you PETERall of them synthesized by the federal committee of the PSOE in its message “President, stay. Peter stay. We are with you.”
Since the days of presidential ‘reflection’, there have been similarities of style between Francoism and Sanchism. In your Letter to citizens On April 24, the Moncloa tenant warned about “a harassment operation and demolition by land, sea and air, to try to make me faint politically and personally” warning against “a coalition of interest right-wing and far-right that extends throughout the main democracies westernand to which I will always respond from reason, truth and education.” Long before, on October 1, 1971, Franco warned the crowd from the balcony of the Royal Palace that “the enemy (communism) has not disappeared, the danger continues threatening al whole world“, concluding: “I want, once again, to assure you that as long as God gives me life and clarity of judgment I will continue to hold the helm of the State.”
President Sánchez’s much-discussed willingness to continue governing “with or without the support of a legislative power“, as he said (minutes 19:30 of the video) before the leadership of the PSOE on September 8, evokes what Franco Bahamonde said to the deputies of the Cortes in July 1964 about a future that had to “be based on the firm reality of the Movement if it does not want to be suspended in the void pure formal legislative solutions”.
Óscar López with Father Ángel and the papal nuncio. On the right, Minister Elma Saiz in the Church of San Antón
The coincidences in the messages of the former dictator with those of today’s autocrat are frequent in the references to threatening conspiracies – communist/masonic or right-wing/ultra-right – and in the Manichean approach of a society divided into good and bad. It is what underlies in the complaint by Pedro Sánchez on April 29 on TVE in the sense that “the evils that afflict us” are part of a “global reactionary movement that aspires to impose its regressive agenda”, which is why he called “for a mobilization to put a stop to the politics of shame.” And this is what the general’s words show Franco in 1964: “The negative action of denouncing the threat is not enough for us, communism has enormous recruiting power (…) there is no room for ambiguous situations; the battle continues by other procedures, and what Spain is at stake is very important so that we can inhibit ourselves.”
The coincidences in the messages of the former dictator with those of today’s autocrat are frequent in the references to threatening conspiracies – communist/masonic or right-wing/ultra-right – and in the Manichaean approach of a society divided into good and bad.
A peculiarity of the President of the Government’s repeated warning messages is that they almost always bring up the harassment of the mud media and judicial and, as far as the media is concerned, in terms similar to those of the furious Franco regime attacking the treatment of Spanish reality in the international press.
In a historic demonstration of support for the then Caudillo in December 1946 after the blockade international to Spain from the UN, the foreign correspondents were thus rebuked as the demonstration passed, according to the Francisco Franco Foundation: “We want foreign journalists who tell the truth and who do not deceive the world with lies that fill the newspapers from all over the world.” In 2024, the Chief Executive mobilizes the State machinery “against the mud and toxic practices”, of what he describes as pseudomedia digital in a “political and media ecosystem that incessantly feeds” tension and hoaxes”.
The economics mantra
The purpose of these journalistic campaigns, according to Sánchez in his speech on December 23, is to convey that Spain is sinking, to which the president opposes the successful economy Spanish, “the fastest growing of the world’s main economies” and “one of the most promising in the West.” The triumphant general in the War of ’36 also liked to sell the country’s economic progress in the face of political adversity. “The progress of the nation,” he said in 1971, “has been evident in the figures that show the elevation effective of standard of livingthe increase in agricultural production, in electrical energy, in housing construction, in foreign trade and tourism…”.
The outcome of Pedro Sánchez’s days of reflection on his continuity meant, according to the reactions of his ministerial team, the step of the leader status to caudillo or, as the head of Transportation, Óscar Puente, called it, “fucking master”, a name as crazy as that of Generalissimo. Aside from the nickname, in recent months there have been many examples of worship of the boss installed in the Moncloa or, at least, a stronger sense of hierarchy and discipline.
It can be seen in the continuous slogans and idioms who leave the presidential cabinet and are cloned by the ministers, even in matters unrelated to government management. Recent example has been choral reaction After learning of the conviction in France in the case of Gisele Pelicot: at least seven ministers – Mª Jesús Montero, Óscar López, Diana Morant, Pilar Alegría, Isabel Rodríguez, Ángel V. Torres, Elma Saiz – senior leaders of the PSOE, the president of the Council of State, etc., repeated verbatim, even without reposting , the two lines of the Pedro Sánchez tweet on that topic.
The incursion of members of the Government into forms of the old Franco regime when it is going to remember Franco’s dictatorship with the 50th anniversary of his death does not seem accidental. The gesture, for example, of Minister Óscar López, the one in charge of defeating Díaz Ayuso in Madrid, approaching the tables of the marginalized with the nuncio of His Holiness at a Christmas Eve dinner, has not been an isolated case. Also on the designated Christmas dates Elma SizeMinister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, made a “inspiring visit” to the Madrid church of San Antón governed by Father Ángel, having the opportunity to serve meals to those welcomed there.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
