The President of Congress, the socialist Francine Armengolordered that the defense of Francoism made by a Vox deputy this Tuesday during a plenary session in the Lower House be removed from the agenda of the session. Manuel Mariscalparliamentarian of Toledo since the formation of Santiago Abascalassured that the post-civil war stage was a period of “reconstruction, of progress and reconciliation to achieve national unity. Armengol warned Vox that he would not allow him to present an “apology for the Franco regime” to Congress, as he claimed last Tuesday.
The deputy from Abascal’s party took advantage of his intervention in the debate preceding the vote for the new president of RTVE to accuse the government of Pedro Sanchez use public channel “to protect oneself from the truth.” Manuel Mariscal affirmed that Spaniards, mainly young people, know reality through “social networks” and not through “media that is not controlled by political power”. This is when the Vox deputy promotes Francoism. “Thanks to social networks, many young people are discovering that the post-civil war was not a dark stage as this government sells us, but rather a stage of reconstruction, progress and reconciliation to achieve national unity” , he noted.
» asked Francina Armengol this Thursday “apologies” to Congress because he was unable to hear these words of the Vox deputy at the time they were uttered and he announced that after watching them he had come to the conclusion that they are not “acceptable ” and that is why he ordered their withdrawal. In reality, the comments will not be deleted but will be placed in parentheses in the Session Log with an appeal explaining that they have been censored by the Chair.
The president of the Lower House communicated this decision after the debate on a Vox proposal to repeal the law on democratic memory, stressing that she ordered its withdrawal and warning that she was not going to “admit” that this is done. “apology of Francoism and hate speech” in Congress.
“I warn all MPs that they cannot advocate Francoism, which was a dictatorship which caused terror, murder and hatred in our country and that this house is precisely there to guarantee democracy and rights of all,” he said. argued.
“A chachi piruli era”
The Organizing Secretary of the PSOE in Castile-La Mancha and Member of Parliament for Toledo, Sergio Gutiérrezalso accused the Vox deputy of making “an apology for the Franco dictatorship”, like Armengol. “It is its historical memory, 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. If you said 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 chachi piruli era», declared the socialist deputy in a message posted on social networks.
Faced with these attacks, Manuel Mariscal defended himself by assuring that his two grandmothers “fortunately did not see” the “corruption, insecurity and saturation of public services” that the government of Pedro Sánchez left behind. . “It surprises me that they always talk about ‘my grandmother’, ‘my grandfather’ in the singular. Do they deny the other for something? Honestly, I believe that many grandmothers of PSOE deputies, if they were alive, would have given a capon to their grandchildren when they voted yes to the amnesty and yes to the corrupt Pedro Sánchez», he replied to the PSOE parliamentarian.
Fortunately, my two grandmothers did not see the Spain you are leaving full of corruption, insecurity and saturated public services.
It surprises me that they always talk about “my grandmother”, “my grandfather” in the singular. Do they deny the other for something?
Honestly, I think a lot of grandmothers…
– ManuelMariscalZabala (@MariscalZabala) November 26, 2024
“For the dictatorship that this government leaves us. You hate free speech because it endangers your lies. In the Spain where I grew up, every citizen could think and interpret history freely. We must fight for this to continue like this,” explained the Vox MP in another message posted on social networks to defend himself from the criticism addressed to him for having praised the Franco regime.
For the dictatorship that this government leaves us.
You hate free speech because it endangers your lies.
In the Spain where I grew up, every citizen could think and interpret history freely. We must fight to keep it that way.
– ManuelMariscalZabala (@MariscalZabala) November 26, 2024
