(This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. El Europarlamento es Paiporta)

The world is changing at dizzying speed, and those who believed they had everything under control in order to maintain their power and their privileges and to guarantee both their arbitrariness and their impunity have entered into panic. It is happening in the U.S., where on 20 January we will experience a day that will be a milestone in the history of this century, with the solemn triumph of a great national movement of weariness, protest and victory over the leftist elites and their web of interests.

In Europe the same thing is going to happen, and whoever has not seen the results of the Austrian, Czech, Italian, French, Dutch elections and all those that will come has not realized that the People’s Party — principal culprit in diverting the national and conservative vote of the European nations toward a left-wing policy — has entered the last chapter of that betrayal which it has been perpetrating for decades.

It is going to be the last time that the People’s Party succeeds in disguising itself as right-wing in order to guarantee the maintenance of the centralist left-wing and climate-catastrophist policy. It will be von der Leyen’s last embrace of all the losers of the elections in order to continue with the failed policy of the previous five-year term of Green Pact, energy and economic collapse, Agenda 2030, ideological hysteria, incentivized immigrant invasion and war against freedom of expression.

The contradictions are blowing up in their hands, as we were able to explain with satisfaction at a gathering of members of Patriots for Europe held in Madrid. Just as the European Parliament resolution on Venezuela demonstrated that the axis of the popular will of the nations in Europe has shifted strongly to the right, it is clear that the struggle for freedom and prosperity is going to place the People’s Party before an existential dilemma. If the People’s Party already hid when the left and Josep Borrell sabotaged the presence of Jeanine Áñez — constitutional president of Bolivia and a political prisoner who was a finalist for the prize proposed by Vox — then with the Prize to María Corina and Edmundo González it has been seen that the cordon sanitaire with which the waning majority tries to asphyxiate the emerging national forces of Patriots, Conservatives and Sovereigntists will end up strangling them instead. And much before this newly begun legislature ends.

Last Wednesday the People’s Party hid when there occurred the gallant and very effective reaction of the patriots, led by Vox, against the contemptible offense to Venezuela that was the invitation and the presence of Zapatero in the European Parliament. Zapatero had to leave the European Parliament like a scoundrel evicted by dignity. Like Pedro Sánchez from Paiporta.

The PP is in panic but also in permanent turmoil with the contradictions that threaten to drown it daily. It wants to present itself as the defender in Europe of María Corina and Edmundo, but they know that history owes the recognition of the president-elect to the Patriots, not to the PP’s partners, all defenders of the murderer Maduro. And they know that they are partners of the partners of the murderer Maduro and his drug-trafficking gang.

Such being the case, next Tuesday the ceremony for the awarding of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize is held in Strasbourg. It will be received from the hands of President Roberta Metsola by the laureate Edmundo González Urrutia and by Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the also-laureate María Corina Machado. Her mother, María Corina, the architect of the miraculous electoral campaign and of the great feat of documenting the humiliating defeat of the dictatorship, cannot attend the Parliament in Strasbourg.

María Corina Machado not only cannot leave Venezuela — she has not been able to for almost a decade by prohibition of the regime. She has had to go underground because she is pursued, to be detained, perhaps tortured or even murdered, by the dictator Nicolás Maduro, today the greatest murderer and torturer in America and head of an immense organization of drug trafficking, kidnappings, money laundering and every kind of organized crime.

Well, to that parliament to which she cannot come and gain access to receive the prize, there did arrive, enter and hold a round table on feminism and equality, with a resplendent invitation from President Metsola of the People’s Party, a socialist known as the principal adviser, defense lawyer and protector of this murderer Maduro who detains and kills María Corina’s advisers. Questions of foreign relations with criminal governments or not, foreign investments and various Delcy operations. We are talking about the contemptible former president of the Spanish government by the grace of 11M, great traitor to Spain for his secret agreements with terrorists and separatists and principal architect of the institutional dismantling of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

That is to say, the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, invites — a week before being unable to award the Sakharov Prize to María Corina — the greatest accomplice of the criminal oppressor who has put a price on María Corina’s head.

Roberta Metsola will perhaps not have realized this grotesque act of hers and will not have lost a minute more over that colossal offense of the European Parliament to all Venezuelans, she who was celebrating in Madrid yesterday the Forum Europa 2024 Prize. They say for the defense of the EU. Certainly not for the defense of the D’Hondt law in force in the Parliament and contemptibly violated by her party, the People’s Party, in complicity with its socialist partners, the Greens, the Macronists and the communists.

Because Metsola not only seems not to understand that one can never invite the accomplice of a murderous dictator, but much less a week before wanting to honor the principal representative of the victims of this murderous dictatorship, along with the president-elect of Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia. Metsola, like Núñez Feijóo, like all the People’s Party, seem to believe that world and European politics goes on just as in the nineties and that it is enough for them to make their swaps of trading cards with the Socialists so that “life goes on the same.” Nothing is going to stay the same, and the People’s Party will split between those who choose to take part in the reconquest of a new era of freedom and prosperity in the West, in Europe and all of America — south, center and north — and those who sink with the Socialists into the subculture of rancor and failure.

Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow (Honorary) at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.