Valladolid (EFE) case of the autonomous Parliament where its president, Carlos Pollán (Vox), has warned the socialist group that he will denounce him before the courts if he does not remove the banner with those colors that they have hung in the windows of their offices in the Cortes.
The president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (PP), has claimed and defended the “just cause” of LGTBI Pride Day this Wednesday.
“We commemorate the #LGTBIOrgulloDay in defense of the rights and freedoms of all people. In favor of real equality and against all kinds of discrimination. A just cause that is worth claiming ”, Manueco has transferred through a tweet.
The controversy, which was already experienced last year in the Parliament of Castilla y León, the first institution that Vox presided over in the national group, after not hanging the rainbow flag in parliament, but the socialist group did from its offices, was It has transferred that 2023 to the municipalities with coalition governments between the PP and Vox.
In Palencia and León, with socialist mayors, the rainbow banner has shone again to make Pride Day visible, while in another consistory with a PSOE councilor, that of Soria, the flag has been hanging from the window of the mayor, Carlos Martínez, for a long time.
In the Cortes, Pollán first threatened to send the security services to withdraw it if the Socialists did not do so and, later, to denounce the leader of the PSOE and the parliamentary group, Luis Tudanca, before the courts, but after the morning the ensign was still on the balcony of his group.
In response to this new requirement, the spokesman for the Socialist Group in the Cortes, Luis Tudanca, has told the media that “they will not remove the flag”: “Each flag they try to remove, we will place it while there is only one socialist left in this camera”.
“Here I am. They are not going to intimidate me with threats or with attempts at coercion”, Tudanca expressed, arguing that Pollán “knows that these actions are perfectly legal”, as the Superior Court of Justice of Aragon ruled in a sentence.
For this reason, the socialist has stated that what Vox would like is to “send the ‘greys'” to remove the LGTBI banner from their offices because their policy is based on going “against diversity” typical of a “right Francoist, homophobic and racist”, he added.
The PSOE has recalled that Castilla y León still does not have an LGTBI observatory and is the only community without its own law on sexual diversity.
In the new municipal corporations, some have already marked the path of the legislature, such as the case of Valladolid, which is governed by PP and Vox, and which will not hang any flag or banner of solidarity or in favor of any group, but will illuminate its façade and other buildings with the appropriate colors in each case, and that this Wednesday will be those of the rainbow banner for LGTBI Pride Day.
It is “a day that will continue to be celebrated, I want it to be very clear”, the mayor of Valladolid, Jesús Julio Carnero (PP), defended this Wednesday at the institutional act for LGTBIQA+ Pride Day that was held in the City Hall, which has been attended by the members of the corporation with the exception of the three Vox mayors.
In Salamanca, where the PP governs alone, the LGTBI flag hangs, as it has been since 2015, from the Liceo theater in the capital, and as has happened in Parliament, the socialist councilors have worn rainbows from the windows of their offices .
They have also opted for rainbow lighting in Zamora, the only Spanish provincial capital with a United Left mayor; and in Ávila, whose mayor is Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera, from Por Ávila, there has been an institutional concentration, also without the Vox councilors, which has included the display of a large rainbow flag, while some participants have also carried flags trans.
Nor has the LGTBI banner been deployed in the Burgos City Council, following the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, but its new mayoress, Cristina Ayala, from the PP, together with the Councilor for Social Services, Andrea Ballesteros, will participate this afternoon in the LGTBIQA+ Pride demonstration .EFE