One hundred leftist personalities of politics, culture, media or the legal world have signed a manifesto to support government continuity and claim the implementation of an “updated” program of “forceful and concrete” measures “against corruption that, at the same time, puts ahead of the” social advances “and” civil rights “to improve the lives of citizenship.
With the motto “For the advances in social and political rights and against the attempts of involution”, the document has been signed by the filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, singers Ana Belén, Joan Manuel Serrat, Víctor Manuel or Miguel Ríos, as well as actress Loles León, among others.
In addition, the former minister and former president of the Junta de Andalucía, Manuel Chaves; the former president of the Generalitat José Montilla; or the former socialist ministers Leire Pajín, Magdalena Álvarez, Carmen Montón, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Joan Clos, Manuel Castells or Jesús Caldera. In the list also appears the poet Luis García Montero or the writer Rosa Montero, among others.
Come “inadmissible” that the government falls before a trial
The text recognizes that the “alleged crimes” associated with the ‘Cerdán’ case of alleged corruption, in which the former organization of the organization of the PSOE Santos Cerdán and José Luis Ábalos are “serious” and “denote crashes errors” in the choice of charges and the surveillance of their work.
“However, it is inadmissible that a democratically elected government falls by a Civil Guard report, before a trial with all the guarantees in which the responsibility of the presidency or the affected party was accredited,” they argue.
They affect that the fall of the government “is only possible due to the success of a motion of censure or the celebration of elections”, two assumptions that, until now, have not been given. “Pretending to shorten the legislature for other methods would be unconstitutional.
“The attack, from all conservative and reactionary fronts, to the progressive coalition government and its president resembles a conspiracy more to demolish a legitimate government than to their own political criticism in a democratic system,” the text, which criticizes the “disqualification” of the “rights” for having “put into question the electoral result” as they did, in the past, the presidents Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro.
Against attacks on migrants and the vandalization of political venues
They observe, at the same time, that “the incriminations and slander” have reached “unknown levels in European parliaments”, with the use of terms such as “criminal, mafia government, mafia capo or corrupt government.”
“The attacks on migrants and the vandalization of the headquarters of leftist parties remind the fascist aggressions of past times,” they recriminate, while claiming that the Senate is used as a “battering) with investigation commissions that” only intend to incriminate the government. ”
They also show the concentrations and strikes of the Judiciary against “laws of Congress that they do not like”, such as the reform of justice or amnesty. Protests that, they say, are framed “out of legality.”
“Judges and magistrates open prolonged investigations, with weak probationary bases, while the opposition unfit the Constitutional Court because it does not share the sentence on amnesty. A very important part of the media and social networks have unleashed an orgy of false news or half truths in order to create an unreasonable political climate, which does not sympathize with the situation of the country,” they add.
At the same time, they emphasize that the “advances” of government in economic and social matters “are hidden by system” or they are “biased”.