A motion on Holy Week presented this Tuesday by Vox in the plenary session of the Valencia Provincial Council has ended in controversy after the spokesman for the far-right formation, Sergio Pastor, called the PSPV-PSOE a “criminal party”, which he has accused of “persecuting nuns.”
The socialists have risen and left the plenary session.
The debate was proceeding through normal channels on an initiative that sought to highlight processions, brotherhoods and brotherhoods.
The groups had expressed their intention to vote in favor or to abstain.
The provincial deputy of Vox and councilor of the Manises City Council has justified his initiative by the “Judeo-Christian root” and “Catholic” of Spanish society and has been heating up.
He has referred to the clerical persecution of the Republic and that he hoped it would not happen again and has stated: “As you call us heirs of Francoism, when you have no proof.
"I call you heirs of the Popular Front, because there is a lot of evidence."
He then accused the socialists of “persecuting nuns”, brandishing the book
Republican Repression in Valencia.
July 1936,
by Víctor Julio Maestro, and he has concluded: “The reality is that your party is a criminal party.”
The socialist spokesperson, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, has asked to intervene to reject those words and ask that they be withdrawn.
“Vox's intention in this plenary session to call us a criminal party is shameful and indescribable.
It is a lack of respect and also to Holy Week and to the motion that has been debated,” said Fernández Bielsa, while asking Pastor to withdraw what he said.
“We are not used to hearing such an unworthy and indecent accusation in a plenary session of the Provincial Council or any other institution, especially against the party that has done the most for the freedom and rights of this country,” responded the deputy general secretary. of the PSPV.
He has also asked Vicent Mompó, president of the Provincial Council, of the PP if he censored Vox's words and has asked that they not appear in the minutes of the plenary session.
“Then, the mayor of Mislata recommended to the Vox deputy the book titled
Facha
, by the American philosopher Jason Stanley, which explains the functioning of fascism.”
“Read it and you will see yourself recognized in your words today,” he suggested.
At first, Sergio Pastor refused to withdraw his words, stating that he was accepting “freedom of expression.”
Mompó commented that he could not “remove the words of any colleague from the record” and specified that he “must be the same person who said them.”
“I do not have to ratify or not the words of other colleagues.
We already know what each of us are like.
I have demonstrated with facts my way of intervening in plenary sessions.
“I don't like the tension that has been experienced,” the president insisted.
Finally and before concluding the plenary session, Sergio Pastor stated that “out of harmony” he was withdrawing what he said.
“If the crimes carried out by members of a party-organization cannot be attributed to a party, a problem opens,” said the Vox spokesperson, who then added: “In any case, for the sake of harmony, I will withdraw it.” ”.
The PP and Vox presented last week in the Valencian Cortes a draft law on Concord, which dates back to 1931 and includes “the revolutionary crimes of the Popular Front,” as announced by the parliamentary spokesperson for the far-right formation, José María. Plains.
Out of the minutes
The secretary of the corporation has indicated that he will not put anything about Vox's accusations against the PSPV in the minutes of this Wednesday's session because if he indicated that he was withdrawing, he had to explain what he was withdrawing.
“Nothing will appear about this issue, which is also unrelated to the point that was debated about Holy Week and which has been approved by a majority,” he explained.
This expression by Pastor has provoked rejection and criticism from the 12 socialist deputies, who have left the plenary session after the last intervention of the Vox representative and before the call ended.
The discontent expressed by the representatives of the PSPV has been added to that of the first vice president and deputy of Ens Uneix, Natàlia Enguix, a member of the Government of the Provincial Council with the PP, who has indicated that she did not share Vox's intervention.
The motion on Holy Week presented by Vox asked to recognize and value the work of the brotherhoods and brotherhoods of Holy Week.
After the debate, in which only this formation and the government team have participated, the initiative has gone ahead with votes in favor of its speaker and the executive formed by PP and Ens Uneix.
It has had the abstention of PSPV and Compromís.