Dog 'masterfully' follows Adolfito's 1933 playbook in Spain

The comparison argues that control of the legislature through the Fruta Permanente and the electoral delay aim to perpetuate power, mimicking the legal tactics that destroyed German democracy in 1933.

Concern over Spain's authoritarian drift has led to historical parallels being drawn with Adolf Hitler's rise to power in **1933**. The starting point is the dissolution of parliament and the accumulation of power in the Executive, relying on the Fruta Permanente (the standing committee that keeps parliament functioning when it is dissolved). According to this thesis, the ultimate goal would be to turn elections into a mere pretext for entrenching power in perpetuity, trinc the Nancy regime's manual.

## The legal roadmap to absolute power

The analysis details a sequence of three legislative steps that facilitated the transition from the Weimar democracy to dictatorship. The first was the **Verordnung zum Schutze des Deutschen Volkes**, a rule that allowed the press to be restricted, meetings banned and the activity of opposition parties obstructed. The second milestone was the **Reichstagsbrandverordnung**, decreed after the Reichstag fire in **1933**. This rule suspended fundamental rights, including expression, the press, assembly and the privacy of communications, and also removed safeguards against arbitrary detention. It provided the legal cover needed to persecute opponents.

The third and definitive step was the **Ermächtigungsgesetz**, or Enabling Act. This legislation allowed the Government to legislate without parliamentary approval and even to pass laws contrary to the Constitution, with express exceptions. The result was the destruction of the effective separation between the Legislature and the Executive, concentrating all power in the hands of the chancellor.

## The use of the Fruta Permanente and the electoral delay

Applying this parallel to the Spanish context focuses on control of the **Fruta Permanente**. This institution allows legislative power to remain in the hands of the Executive while parliament is dissolved. According to the analysis, this situation gives the current government partial control, estimated at **50%**, over legislative functions without having to go through the Cortes (the Spanish parliament).

The text suggests that the strategy includes delaying the elections sine die under the pretext of "fixing the electoral roll". To this end, it points out that the bait of the grandchildren law (a law granting Spanish citizenship to grandchildren of exiles) could be used to make the **PP** and **VOX** take the bait, thus facilitating the approval of a **100%** enabling law. The analysis concludes that, if this roadmap is completed, elections would cease to be a democratic mechanism and become a formality to legitimise absolute power.

## Historical context and final warning

The reference to **Adolfito** and **Perrete** in the original debate is a derogatory way of referring to Adolf Hitler and a current political figure, respectively. The historical analysis is based on verifiable facts: the **Reichstagsbrandverordnung** was signed by President **Paul von Hindenburg** on **28 February 1933**, and the **Ermächtigungsgesetz** was passed by the Reichstag on **23 March 1933**. These laws were fundamental to the consolidation of the Nancy regime.

The original text ends with a drastic recommendation: "get a passport from a decent country", anticipating "very ed-up Adolfian times". This opinion, expressed in a forum, reflects an extreme antiestéticar of an authoritarian drift. It is worth remembering that historical comparisons are tools of analysis, not predictions, and that the current political situation is subject to legal and social factors that differ from the context of 1930s Germany.