WHERE IS "El CID"? A Decree Against the Nation: How Spain’s Leaders Turned Their Backs on the People

EL CID TURNED BACK THE INVASION OF THE RAMPAGING MOORS, CAN THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN DO THE SAME?

Spain did not free itself from dictatorship so that its future could be rewritten by decree.

We did not endure decades of censorship, fear, and imposed “national solutions” only to arrive at a system where a handful of appointed ministers—shielded by procedure and waved through by a silent Crown—could make decisions of permanent consequence without ever asking the Spanish people if they consented.

And yet, that is exactly what has happened.

A decision imposed, not chosen

Half a million people.Not debated.Not voted on.Not approved by referendum.

Five hundred thousand new legal residents added by executive action, at a moment when Spain already struggles with unemployment, housing shortages, collapsing birth rates, and overburdened public services.

No Spaniard voted for this.

The ministers who advanced it were not elected by name. They were appointed. Their power flows not from the people, but from coalition arithmetic and political deals struck behind closed doors. To pretend otherwise is an insult to basic democratic honesty.

This was not leadership. It was imposition.

The King’s silence speaks volumes

The monarchy was restored after Franco precisely so that never again would Spain be ruled by unaccountable authority cloaked in necessity. The Crown was meant to symbolize unity, continuity, and restraint—not serve as a ceremonial stamp for whatever the government of the day decides to force through.

Yes, the King is bound by the Constitution.But neutrality is not moral blindness.

When decisions of this scale are made without consent, without mandate, and without regard for national capacity, silence is not prudence. It is abdication. History does not remember kings kindly when they hide behind procedure while their people bear the consequences.

The bill will be paid by ordinary Spaniards

This decree will not affect ministers living comfortably in Madrid.It will not burden political activists or NGO executives.It will not touch the insulated elite who speak of “solidarity” from secure positions.

It will fall on:

• young Spaniards locked out of housing,

• workers already competing for scarce jobs,

• neighborhoods pushed past their limits,

• municipalities forced to do more with less.

Calling this “humane” does not change the arithmetic. Compassion without capacity is not virtue—it is irresponsibility.

Spain is not an experiment

Spain is not a blank slate.It is not a spreadsheet.It is not a laboratory for ideological fantasies.

A nation is a shared inheritance: economic, cultural, and civic. It survives only when change happens with consent, at a pace people can absorb, and in service of those who already belong to it.

What has been done here treats Spain as infinitely elastic—and Spaniards as an afterthought.

Franco is gone. Executive arrogance should be too.

Franco ruled by decree.He justified it as necessary.He claimed to know better than the people.

Spain rejected that logic once. It must reject it again—no matter how politely it is presented, no matter how progressive the language used to disguise it.

Democracy is not just legality.It is legitimacy.And legitimacy comes from the people.

A final word

This decree is not inevitable.It is not sacred.And it is not beyond judgment.

Those who approved it should not be surprised if Spaniards remember who spoke for them—and who acted without them.

Spain belongs to its people, not to appointed ministers, not to coalition deals, and not to ideologies imported from elsewhere.

If that truth is forgotten, the consequences will not be theoretical. They will be lived.