Armando G. Tejeda

Correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 17, 2024, p. 28

Madrid. Sumar, the minority party in the coalition government, announced yesterday in a surprising way that it had reached an agreement agreement with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) for the abrogation Of the call gag law, a law passed during the administration of right-wing Mariano Rajoy and which they had promised to eliminate since the left came to power five years ago.

Despite the announcement by Sumar leader Yolanda Díaz, the socialist part of the Executive ruled out such an extreme and indicated that there would be some changes to the law, but not a repeal.

One of the banners of the left-wing parties in the general elections since 2016 has been precisely the elimination of the gag lawwhich gives the state security forces a series of prerogatives that, in its opinion, facilitate repression and silencing the opposition and street protests.

Today we will know for sure the content of the supposed pact, which will be formally announced by the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, in an appearance before the Congress of Deputies in which he will present a plan for the democratic regenerationwhich will also include a series of legal changes to prevent pseudo media and pseudojournalists receive institutional advertising, both from the central government and from the regional and municipal governments.