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Rumours of failed coup d'etat attempt by PP in SPAIN

category international | eu | news report author Friday April 02, 2004 21:25author by Someone

Let it be known, it must be known: This is what witnesses, silenced by imposed censorship in their media, etc, are sending around through e-mails and SMS: The attempt of a coup d'etat the night of the 13th of march in the Spanish state.

From S.E.R. Radio: "Yesterday (Saturday) in the night, at 00:00, PP government was in a meeting to write two notices to be signed by the King. Those reports were declaring a State of Emergency and delaying the electoral process. There was a plan A: to delay elections till Autumn, and a plan B: to delay elections for two months.

The informer, who was at the central electoral committee, had a first hand experience of all this throughout the whole process: the presentation of both communiqués to the central electoral committee, second step in this worrying attempt of the Government after the reports to the committee against any opposition party and several mass media and the admission of such by the committee.

After this the minister Acebes goes with other members of the government to the Zarzuela Palace to get the King's signature, necessary requirement to call up the State of Emergency. This signature is denied since it is considered, as per information passed on to our informer by anonymous sources of the Royal Palace, "a Coup d'Etat in its own right". The tone in the notices was alarming, according to the informer, and there was a mention in it of the creation of a national situation that included not only police but military presence in the streets.
The denial of the signature from the Royal Palace and the constant refusals from the National police to dissolve by force the peaceful demonstrations that were taking place all across the country, made the government give up on their attempt, reporting the cancellation of such process to the Central electoral committee by 2:15 in the morning, adding more alarming news to the above reasons.

We have been able to confirm the above news through different authorized sources all day today (Sunday), whereby we were also informed of a meeting celebrated in Madrid with different people in charge of the news services of different information media. At that meeting it was decided, not without a lot of opposition, that this information SHOULD NOT be spread through newspapers, radio and television at least until a next meeting tomorrow evening, once the electoral process is finished".

Well, what about that??? A Coup d'Etat in the middle of "democratic" Europe, a fascist regime emerging out of one of Bush's allies!!! So much for his rubbish "democracy"!!!



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