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Alpars calls for “reflection” in the face of the anti-democratic actions of the far right

The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Alberis, condemned this Monday the attack on the headquarters of the three state authorities in Brazil and called for “reflection” on the actions of the far right to question the election results. The minister highlighted the “tremendous wave of solidarity” with Brazil that has emerged in Latin America and around the world after Sunday’s events, but also highlighted the need to “confront the lies” spread by extremist groups.

Asked in an interview with Cadena SER how to combat this far-right chain that begins with spreading fake news and questioning election results and ends with actions like those that occurred in the Capitol two years ago or in Brasilia, Albares acknowledged that “no one has the magic formula,” but It is necessary to “confront the lie, establish the facts and expose those who maliciously try to sow doubts about the election results, or worse, those who accept the results, saying that there are legitimate and illegitimate leaders.” “These are remnants of the far right,” he concluded, warning that events like Sunday’s “foreshadow these movements that will not go away easily.”

The minister said that the tendency of the far-right to question the results “is spreading and should lead to reflection”, stressing that the government of Spain “will defend democracy in Brazil and throughout the world” and “leave no stone unturned” in this sense. Spain needs a democratic Brazil, on the international scene, in a year when we hold the presidency of the European Council [en la segunda mitad del año]Finally, when asked about the reaction of the national spokesman of the Popular Party, Coca Jamara, who criticized the elimination of the crime of sedition, Albares said that as a minister, he was very concerned “that the first opposition party in Spain, in your first reaction, say nothing in support of Democracy or a rejection of the extreme right in Brazil”. “This shows that the People’s Party has nothing to say in international politics,” he said. “As a citizen, it is unfortunate that attempts are being made to question the legitimacy of a president,” he said.