The European Parliament will analyze whether MEP Luis “Alvise” Pérez broke the rules by accusing former minister Irene Montero during a plenary debate in Strasbourg. The Presidency of the European Parliament has received a complaint demanding that the legal services study whether the representative of Se Acabó la Fiesta sowed hatred by questioning the Podemos parliamentarian.
“Is your policy to reduce abused women based on killing them yourself with your policies or on regularizing millions of Africans so they can end it themselves?”, asked Alvise during his speech. At that time, the Romanian Nicolae Stefanuta, then president, criticized the speaker for questioning a colleague from the chamber, skipping the procedure, which only allows bilateral exchanges between parliamentarians on certain occasions (on express request and the other person accepts it).
“If the dirty war of judges and media power or political violence have no consequences, who is surprised that a racist and sexist adds the drop of water that overflows a glass that others fill every day? Fascists are stopped with more rights and more democracy,” Montero responded the next day via the social network.
Montero, however, left the matter unresolved and made no formal complaint to the European Parliament services. In any case, the affair took place in another way, as indicated by parliamentary sources, and it will be analyzed whether Alvise violated the rules which prohibit “offensive remarks” on the part of deputies.
“To determine whether the language used by a parliamentarian during a parliamentary debate is offensive or not, it is necessary to take into account, among other elements, the identifiable intentions of the speaker, the perception of the intervention by the public, the extent to which this undermines the dignity and reputation of Parliament, as well as the freedom of expression of the Member concerned. For example, defamatory remarks, “hate speech” and incitement to discrimination based in particular on one of the grounds mentioned in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, would normally constitute cases of “ offensive remarks” within the meaning of this article”, specifies the European Parliament’s regulations.
Violation of these rules results in sanctions ranging from a public warning to the suspension of the diets for a few days.
