The Madrid president and PP leader denounces that ‘practices such as mass surveillance, censorship, and repression of dissent are being used’ while criticizing what happened with her partner or the TVE case.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, launched a harsh criticism against the actions of the PSOE-Sumar coalition government this Thursday, accusing it of engaging in practices that ‘have destroyed democracy in many Latin American countries.’ In her view, Spain ‘is experiencing the worst institutional moment in its democratic history,’ to the point that ‘it is already a police state’ because the Executive ‘is exerting excessive and authoritarian control over the citizenry.’
‘In a police state,’ explained the PP leader, ‘civil rights and liberties are restricted, and authorities have the power to monitor, repress, and punish the population with little or no judicial oversight.’ In the case of Spain, she continued, ‘practices such as mass surveillance, censorship, and repression of dissent are being used to maintain justice.’
During her speech at the 2024 Influential Awards, Díaz Ayuso wanted to exemplify this situation with the case of her partner, Alberto González Amador, ‘a private citizen who has seen his statement chopped up and conveniently published with scorn, something that is completely illegal, for being the boyfriend of a political opponent.’ ‘This is a police state,’ she insisted. She added that if nothing is done about it, the Ministry of the Interior ‘will handpick the police officers who investigate judicial cases,’ reports Europa Press.
She also cited Spanish Television as another example, where the Government wants to increase the number of board members and lower the majority needed to choose the heads of the public corporation. ‘It is completely gagged by political control,’ criticized the Madrid president. ‘The central Government is going to enrich the audiovisual companies that are in charge of offering their programs on other televisions.’ ‘There is the example of the series about the president’s marriage, Pedro Sánchez,’ she censured.
