“To know what happens in the early morning after drinking this or that…” The president of the Episcopal Conference, Luis Argüello, has justified the songs with paedophile content sung at a festival by the mayor of Vita, Antonio Martín. In an interview with Europa Press, the head of the Spanish bishops described the songs as “reprehensible” for their “praise of violence”, while specifying that they must be placed “in the context” of a local festival. Martín has apologized and been expelled from the PP, although “for the moment” he has refused to resign.
The Archbishop of Valladolid found himself alone in justifying an attitude disapproved of by all political parties, except Vox. In fact, before presiding over the Council under the popular acronym, Martín was one of the first far-right mayors to emerge from the ballot boxes in 2019. Even Christian lawyers announced the filing of a complaint against the first mayor for alleged crimes of incitement. . to pedophilia and sexual provocation.
During the celebration of the Vita festivities, Martín went on stage and sang the following lyrics in front of the neighbors: “I found a girl alone in the forest, I took her by the hand and took her to my bed. I lifted her skirt and pulled down her panties (…) The first Caliqueño threw her out. The second Caliqueño expelled her. In the third, there was no more milk.
“Something that praises any form of violence seems reprehensible to me,” Argüello stressed, “when asked about the scandal. But he wanted to introduce nuances and asked to “put things in context.” “Knowing what the parties are like in many cities, knowing what happens in the early hours of the morning after drinking this or that, we have to put it in that context,” he said in the interview.
For the president of the Episcopal Conference, a mayor during the festivities “should be ultimately responsible” for the smooth running of everything. “In this sense, he surely has an additional responsibility,” he acknowledged. However, he added: “We should review so many lyrics, so many songs, many in English, that are sung during our festival celebrations, in the cities, throughout these days, also to be able to get out the passage of what is mostly negative,” to “be able to put things in context.” The highest governing authority of the Spanish Church recommends “not growing up in what could be an excessively puritanical society that makes every text, every letter seem rejected.”
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