A Vox MP from Toledo affirms that the Franco dictatorship was “a stage of progress and reconciliation”

The VOX deputy from Toledo Manuel Mariscal assured today, during a speech in Congress, that “the stage after the civil war” – in reference to the Franco dictatorship, without citing it – “was not not a dark stage, but a stage of reconstruction, progress and reconciliation to achieve national unity. He said this during a parliamentary debate linked to RTVE.

From the PSOE, the deputy Sergio Gutiérrez accused him of “apologizing for the Franco dictatorship” and criticized that it was “his historical memory”, in allusion to reality, he commented through the network social that of a very small part of Spain which lived without economic restrictions. This MP’s grandmother could not open a bank account without her husband’s permission, book a hotel room, nor could her generation divorce her even if she was beaten. It was progress,” he quipped.

He then recalled the lack of freedoms imposed by the regime of Francisco Franco after the civil war, until the advent of current democracy. “If you even thought about saying you believed in social justice, you would end up in the dungeon and if you complained you could be beaten. It was reconciliation. But it was a period of chachi piruli…”