Valladolid (EFE) It is commemorated tomorrow and has announced that if it does not do so, it will order the Chamber’s security services to remove it.
As happened last year, with Pollán recently arrived at the position of president of the Cortes, Vox’s criteria has prevailed to reject that the Chamber accept any initiative related to the commemorative acts of Pride Day, which in previous years had had space, with the external projection of the rainbow flag, among other measures.
The Socialist Group already placed the rainbow flag last year as an alternative to the lack of recognition by Parliament of LGTBI people, but the Presidency of the Cortes has explained to EFE that this afternoon it has urged the PSOE to “immediately withdraw the flags hung on the facade of the building”.
rainbow flag
Socialist sources have explained to EFE that they will not attend to Pollán’s request and have added that they do not know if he will comply with his warning of the withdrawal by the security services and, if applicable, when.
The president of the Cortes refers to ruling 1163/2020 of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court, which establishes that the use of unofficial flags outside buildings and public spaces is not compatible with the constitutional framework.
In the same way, Pollán has alluded to articles 105 and following of the Regulations of the Courts to urge the PSOE to withdraw and has warned that, “if this is not the case, the security services of the Chamber will be ordered to do so” .
The PSOE warns: they will not remove the “banner”
For its part, the Socialist Group in the Cortes, through its spokesman, Luis Tudanca, has addressed a letter to the Presidency of the Chamber in which it argues that it will not withdraw the “banner” until the LGTBI Pride Day has concluded. .
And it is that, as in previous years, in the denomination as a banner and not as a flag is part of the legal argument of the Socialists, who have explained in the letter that this banner “does not contravene” in any way the law that regulates the use of the flag of Spain and that of other flags and banners.
To argue their position, the Socialists recall a Judgment of the Superior Court of Justice of Aragon that established that “the mere use of rainbow colors and their placement on the municipal balcony does not violate the law on flags. Under penalty of considering that this law would also be violated, the placement of a banner with the colors of Real Zaragoza, the day the promotion to first division is celebrated, or the placement of a purple flag on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women”.
“The placement of the banner does not violate any law, just as the successive projections on the facade of the Courts of symbols and slogans for various reasons have not done so,” continued the letter from the Socialists, who recalled that the institution itself , in previous years, came to illuminate the façade with rainbow colors.
Warn of legal action
Likewise, the PSOE has insisted that the banner of the LGTBI movement is placed in the premises of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, not in common spaces, and that if it proceeds to break into the offices of parliamentarians for the forced removal of the banner, the group will he will be “forced to file as many legal actions as may be necessary for him.”
“What is being carried out is a legal exercise of freedom of expression by the Attorneys and, in no case, can it be subject to any coercion,” the letter concluded.