Spain: Is the Popular Party Infiltrated?

An analysis on the matter by Luis del Pino follows:

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Peculiar the data that brings our fellow member erskine to the blog, on the presence of the public prosecutor Delgado - the one that offered the deal to the defendants of the Tigris operation [against Islamic terrorism] - in the hunting in Jaen, next to [minister of Justice] Bermejo and [Judge] Garzón. It had to be a very interesting hunting indeed, considering everything what it has happened as a result of it. What was decided there?

As peculiar are the internal movements detected in the Socialist party, where it seems that certain clans have decided to take control definitively. I already said at the time when Jerónimo Saavedra charged against Bermejo, that the whole issue regarding that hunting stank. Some participant in the blog suggested that Saavedra proceeded independently, and that those declarations were nothing more than a small kick in the shinbone that the present mayor of Las Palmas sent to Zapatero. Nevertheless, the appointment to highest post in the Ministry of Justice of Caamaño, apparently related so well to the masonic circles as Saavedra himself, points out to a perfectly planned operation, in which Bermejo would have played a scapegoat role. In chess terms, the play is called gambit: to sacrifice a piece in order to secure a winning position. From now on, we can expect that the plans of social change and modification of the territorial structure of Spain will be accelerated.

In the other end of the [political] spectrum, the play seems to develop following the same course. If it is analyzed what it has happened in the Gürtel operation, we see that what in principle seemed a general cause against the [right wing] PP has derived, in last instance, and as Emilio Campmany already foretold, in a "blocking" (continuing with chess terms) of the two unique pieces, both regional barons, that could put in hardships [PP leader] Rajoy (and [the Madrilean mayor] Gallardón) after next Sunday elections: [Madrilean regional government president] Esperanza Aguirre and [Valencia regional government president] Paco Camps are, at the moment, under siege. The flood of data aerated on presumed scandals of corruption through the [pro-Socialist] PRISA group referrers, mainly, to those two regions.

On Rajoy, by all means, not a stain. It does not seem accidental; therefore, that Mariano [Rajoy] took a walk yesterday to the radio news channel of that same media group that, in theory, is trying to laminate the PP. Does it have something to do what it is happening in the PP with "affiliation" of some of its leaders? I do not know it. But some movements are quite peculiar, not very distant in time we have the taking of control of the Basque PP, after kicking Maria San Gil [she risks her life supporting the complete fulfilling of the Constitution, against the opinion of the regional Nationalists]. It is peculiar, for example, that Alfonso Alonso, right wing mayor of Vitoria [in the Basque region] until the last municipal elections, appointed at that time as ombudsman of the city of Vitoria the great master of the Iradier lodge, author of the book "Laicism, a strategy for freedom". Checking such maneuvers, and checking the obstacles set up by the PP in certain regions to the objectors of Education for the Citizenship, it is difficult not to ask oneself if those obstacles respond to something more than to mere stupidity.

I shall declare that the masonic connections of each one do not matter at all to me. Nor it matters to me whether somebody is a mason; nor I believe that a unique masonry exists, but many different groups, some of which deeply hate each other; nor I believe that the majority of those lodges are more than just a club of friends who lean on each other to prosper.

The problem is that, in some of those circles, those friends have begun, in addition, to play social engineers, which, if it were done publicly, it would not raise major problems. As Cesar Vidal told in La Linterna yesterday, if the masons of this country decided to found a political party and to openly concur to the elections, nothing would be objected: what God (or the Great Architect) gives, Saint Peter blesses, and the citizens would choose as representatives whoever they desire.

The wrong thing occurs when such kind of connections stay in discreet background. And if above that, those connections extend transversely through the political parties, then the democratic vote of the citizens runs the serious risk of becoming a farce.

Because, when a voter of United Left [the Communists, now almost absorbed by Zapatero] (or the PP, or the Socialist Party) chooses his representatives, it does that thinking that his representative is going to defend a certain electoral program, or a certain ideology of radical left. And what that voter has the right to expect is that his representative makes decisions based on that program or on that ideology. But when the decisions of that representative are conditioned by a transversal group that decides in a lodge (or in an office, or in a board of directors), then we are before an electoral swindle.

To put a present time example: when the decisions are taken in a hunting, instead of in the Parliament or in the competent institutions, the same essence of the democratic system is being perverted.

I insist: neither I believe in hidden universal conspiracies nor in concealed sanhedrins that direct the world with a bugle blow, nor it matters to me what everyone decides to be. But, as citizen, I have the right to know, before voting, to whom have sworn obedience each one of the candidates who represent me. And, once well known the obedience of each one, I will decide by myself who I prefer. For a system to be truly democratic, it is an essential requisite the respect of the right of the citizens to know who they are exactly voting.

If that does not happen, thus; that is, if the true centers of decision are hidden to the citizens, then the democracy stops being it, to become a concealed oligarchy.

And I do not like oligarchic regimes.

Many PP members are like what Americans refer to as a RINO - las siglas de Republicans In Name Only. They keep the party affiliation, but their only goal is to curry favor with the opposition party that is in power.

Minister Bermejo went hunting and got hunted; a classic operation I am sure police officer Kalaji would have a lot to talk about.

Unlike Bermejo, Kalaji was warned before being completely encircled and out maneuvered his pursuers. He asked for retirement.

On the other side of the political spectrum (as Luis del Pino says), the actions of right wing leader Rajoy have been astounding indeed. He, and the mayor of Madrid, Gallardón, keep very good relations with the pro-Socialist media group PRISA at the same moment when this group is launching everything it has against regional PP leaders (and election winners) Esperanza Aguirre and Paco Camps. The timing indecently coincides with the Galician and Basque regional elections in which it was expected that the Popular Party would lose.

Was someone saving Rajoy against the probable criticism of Aguirre and Camps, who are doing a good job, if the first one lost yet another election under his national rule? Was the regime protecting their men in the PP? Is that the procedure: first, try to destroy the PP blaming them for 3/11, and when this fails, infiltrate the party instead? What it cannot be destroyed, has to be controlled by infiltration?

Nevertheless, the tactic of keeping Aguirre and Camps seeking cover whilst Rajoy lost yet another election did not work as expected: despite all of the alleged corruption charges, the PP won back Galicia. It is true that the polls, and Zapatero’s hurry to campaign there, showed something could happen, however, the control of the vote from the many Galician expatriates living in Latin America, who have to cast their ballots in embassies in countries such as Venezuela, maintained until the last moment the threat that the results could be turned, as it had occurred in the previous Galician regional elections. Yet, this time, right wing votes were simply too many to apply such creative methods again.

The establishment has deeply felt the defeat, even Zapatero not wanting to talk about it. Despite all the marketing efforts (and “all” means ALL the mass media implied) to keep him as a star product, it seems he is losing momentum. Maybe the recent threat of withdrawing Spanish forces from Kosovo is an effort to cast defence minister Carmen Chacon, from the Catalonian Socialist party, as the next reference for the left.

It has been a big blow indeed, since Galicia cannot longer act as a cover up to the Catalonian and Basque pretentions, as it was portrayed in a recent The Economist article. The problem of the Spanish regional Nationalism is circumscribed to the two wealthiest regions and the most favored oligarchies, oligarchies that simply do not accept a ruler chosen by the majority of Spaniards, oligarchies that simply never have accepted democracy and have acted accordingly to avoid the building of a truly democratic system in Spain.

In addition, Rajoy should also not be pleased: his new “mild PP” and the kicking of María San Gil cost 30 % of the votes in the Basque region. That is not the way to win a National one. However, but not surprisingly, he says that his new approach is a success. We’ll see that at National level on June 7th, when the golden retirement seats of the European parliament are renewed.

Radio commentator Federico Jiménez-Losantos calls the mild PP the Ministry of the Opposition or Partido P'ayudá (party to help). In the end, it is a mocking up of Democracy.

Yes, play both sides for the benefit of a shadow middle. The oldest trick of faux democracy. The only thing I can add is to keep asking the old Italian question whenever politics turns odd, ‘Qui paga (who pays)?’

This is a digression but here is a story on growing Spanish unemployment: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=7143162

Well, let’s check a sign: Zapatero’s advisors told on Saturday that our forces would withdraw from Kosovo when it would be agreed with the rest of the participants in the stabilization force. Defence minister Carmen Chacon told Sunday that the schedule she planned to withdraw them will be fulfilled. Is she acting independently? Is that a little coup inside the government? How can she do that?

Moreover, another sign: minister Caamaño, as Zapatero’s legal advisor, was the person responsible for the inclusion of the word “nation” to define Catalonia in the preamble of the its new regional statute.

Hard times are nothing new to those old enough to remember the economic stagnation of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, when Spain's economy was a backwater closed to modernizing influences. It would take a decade of hard work to whip Spain into shape for its 1986 admission to the European Union, the economic engine that would turn it into the world's eighth biggest economy.

That is simply not true. Spain under Gen. Franco rule had the second greatest increase in GDP during the 1960's among developed countries, just after Japan. Under his rule, a Spaniard regular family could afford two homes, one in the city an another in the beach. How many homes can afford a family now? In many cases, none.

Spain has been transformed, and not by chance, from a nation in which the worker was central, to a country in which big corporations do whatever they want, and of course, MSM rely on big corporations, such as banks, to fund their plans.

A tip: one thing that aggravates the crisis here is that people cannot drop their homes: if you sign a mortage, that is for life, the banks will never let you go, even they can sue your offspring: that avoids a price correction in the inflated real estate market.

Nothing what has happened in Spain since 1973 has occurred by chance: it was a well calculated plan to bring that wealth that Gen. Franco left in the workers' hands to build big corporations, big corporations that have all the support of the international media by cross participations with international partners. For that reason Gen. Franco must be demonized.

Now the plan has reached its apogee, not only the present wealth of the workers is in the banks' hands, but the future, thanks to the illusion of the real estate bubble and the mortages signed under its effect.

But, as citizen, I have the right to know, before voting, to whom have sworn obedience each one of the candidates who represent me. And, once well known the obedience of each one, I will decide by myself who I prefer. For a system to be truly democratic, it is an essential requisite the respect of the right of the citizens to know who they are exactly voting. If that does not happen, thus; that is, if the true centers of decision are hidden to the citizens, then the democracy stops being it, to become a concealed oligarchy. And I do not like oligarchic regimes.

I agree. I would say the same thing about our system here.

Wow! One person can make decisions like pulling out military forces and the status of an entire region. I agree, it doesn’t sound like a representative process.