The general secretary and spokesman of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), Francisco César García Magán, has defended the invitation of the president of the EEC, Luis Argüello, to advance the general elections after the last case of corruption of which he was secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, as “an exit to the institutional blockade”, and has warned that “corruption is a cancer of democracy.”
“Obviously the president (of the EEC) has proposed an exit to the institutional blockade and what he has proposed is that citizens speak. And I believe that saying that citizens speak is a basic principle of a democracy,” said García Magán this Friday, at the press conference after the 270 meeting of the Permanent Commission of the EEC.
Thus, although he has indicated that there is no official position of the Episcopal Conference and that the issue has not been addressed during the meeting these days, he has supported the recent statements of Argüello by calling an electoral advance.
“The Spanish Constitution provides for different instruments for the exercise of a healthy exercise of democratic policy, such as the motion of censure, such as the question of trust, but the main element in a democracy is those that have the voice of citizens. Then, and there I believe that the president, by elevation, what has put on top of the table is something as important as putting the common good and what is convenient for Spain and Spanish society, because above the interests of parties that can always Raso, not so much of view, “he insisted.
In addition, in general, he has warned that “corruption is one of the cancers of a” be “democracy that is” “mine” its pillars and “loses credibility.” He has also warned that “it is a very dangerous entrance door to authoritarianism situations.”
Therefore, he has encouraged to look above the “interests of merely electoral parties” and in that sense, he stressed that “there is, not easy, but balanced, the balanced function that the Constitution provides for the crown, for the head of the State.”