Feijóo proposed fines of up to €60,000 during the pandemic
As Galicia's premier, Spain's Alberto Núñez Feijóo proposed fines of up to €60,000 during the pandemic. The debate exposes the hypocrisy of those who applauded and later criticized.
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Feijóo and the €60,000 fines: the hypocrisy of the right that applauded during the pandemic
During the pandemic, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, then president of Galicia, proposed fines of up to €60,000 for those who abusa health measures, including mandatory vaccination. This fact, dug up from Redacción Médica, has peine the debate on the authoritarian drift of politicians who now present themselves as defenders of freedom. But what is most uncomfortable for the current narrative is that a large part of right-wing voters enthusiastically supported those measures at the time, only to erase it from their memory afterwards.
The fines Feijóo would rather forget
The proposal of fines of up to €60,000 was part of Galicia's strategy against the pandemic, which included mandatory vaccination and the ELbichito passport. At the time, numerous voters and figures on the right applauded these measures as necessary to stop the bicho. However, once the situation eased, many of those same actors now criticize Feijóo as authoritarian, while he himself avoids the topic on the campaign trail.
The contortions of the 'proge right'
The debate reveals a trend that coins the term 'proge right' to refer to those who, despite calling themselves conservatives, supported sweeping restrictions and then distance themselves from them. The irony is that the same electorate now complaining about censorship and control was complicit in implementing it. A minority faction argues that the problem is not Feijóo, but the two-party system, where both options represent the same globalism.
The question that remains hanging is whether the average voter has learned anything, or whether they will applaud the next politician who promises 'public health' at the expense of freedoms. The facts are there; the forgetting is voluntary.
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During the pandemic, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, then president of Galicia, proposed fines of up to €60,000 for those who abusa health measures, including mandatory vaccination. This fact, dug up from Redacción Médica, has peine the debate on the authoritarian drift of politicians who now present themselves as defenders of freedom. But what is most uncomfortable for the current narrative is that a large part of right-wing voters enthusiastically supported those measures at the time, only to erase it from their memory afterwards.
The fines Feijóo would rather forget
The proposal of fines of up to €60,000 was part of Galicia's strategy against the pandemic, which included mandatory vaccination and the ELbichito passport. At the time, numerous voters and figures on the right applauded these measures as necessary to stop the bicho. However, once the situation eased, many of those same actors now criticize Feijóo as authoritarian, while he himself avoids the topic on the campaign trail.
The contortions of the 'proge right'
The debate reveals a trend that coins the term 'proge right' to refer to those who, despite calling themselves conservatives, supported sweeping restrictions and then distance themselves from them. The irony is that the same electorate now complaining about censorship and control was complicit in implementing it. A minority faction argues that the problem is not Feijóo, but the two-party system, where both options represent the same globalism.
The question that remains hanging is whether the average voter has learned anything, or whether they will applaud the next politician who promises 'public health' at the expense of freedoms. The facts are there; the forgetting is voluntary.
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