“Spain is on the verge of becoming a dictatorship”

“Spain is on the way to becoming in a dictatorshipwhile you remain silent and comfortably seated in your armchairs,” Borrás told the European Parliament. This reproach from Vox is part of its proposal to submit to the European Parliament a revision of the “yes means yes” law, approved by the previous Minister of Equality, Irene Montero – who has also moved her political life to Brussels in this new legislature -. The Abascal MEPs criticized the Petitions Committee for not delving into the matter and, “far from condemning this legislative clumsiness”, it preferred to “shift responsibility to other organizations”, Borrás said.

But the grievances do not end there for the group, which recently joined Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s European family, Patriots for Europe. For Vox, the PP and PSOE looked the other way and diluted their responsibilities when this formation brought to the committee the “scandal” of minors under guardianship in the Balearic Islands, prostitutes when Francina Armengol was president of the islands. “And what did you do, gentlemen members of the committee?” “Turn a blind eye,” Borrás reproached. “Even if there were European funds involved, you limited yourselves to saying that you were monitoring progress,” the MEP said.

Borrás continued to accuse the PP and the PSOE on issues related to the Catalan independence movement, such as the “harassment of those who simply wanted to receive their education in Spanish”. “We are talking about children and families who are physically and verbally harassed”, recalled Borrás, before assuring that the Brussels Petitions Committee is apologising, once again, behind “technical details of competence”. And regarding the amnesty law, the MEP expressed her disagreement with the fact that the committee limited itself to responding that it would study the law. “An amnesty that, by the way, constitutes an unprecedented act of political corruption to buy votes”, declared Borrás. “Neither Von der Leyen’s committee stopped him in Europe, nor did the PP paralyze him in the Senate”, declared the MEP.