–Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Pedro?
-Yeah.
– Traitor!
This Thursday, the extreme right stretched the limits of parliamentary coexistence a little further. First during the debate of the text in Congress, then during the Government vote and finally in the corridors of the Chamber. The amnesty law is already traveling to the Official State Gazette after receiving the support of the absolute majority of deputies, despite Vox’s attempts to boycott the plenary session with interruptions, shouts and insults.
It is not the first time that the ultra formation strives to break up a plenary session of Congress, but this Thursday was a delicate occasion, the approval of the amnesty for those accused of the process. The final process of a law that the extreme right equates to a coup d’état and that at the end of last year served as an excuse for his followers to surround the PSOE headquarters, on Madrid’s Ferraz street, for days.
The first match was struck this Thursday by the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, during the speech with which he defended his position against the law. At one point during the intervention, he accused Sumar’s deputy, Gerardo Pisarello, who had spoken just before him, of “deeply hating Spain.” “Like someone who has risen to the platform before me, who tore the Spanish flag from a town hall and who deeply hates Spain and who comes here to dissemble and participate in an attempt to break coexistence in our country,” said the head of the far-right formation.
“I am the grandson of Andalusian Republicans,” Pisarello responded. “I feel proudly Catalan and proudly Latin American, and even if I were from Senegal, or outside of Donosti, I would tell you that those of us who work and live here do not accept any lessons from the gentlemen who have always lived from stories and who are part of historically Islamophobic organizations. , historically anti-Semitic and who have gone to pay homage to the butcher of Rafah,” he replied in a fiery speech.
Although the Vox deputy José María Figaredo requested a new turn to continue that particular debate with Pisarello, the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, chose to ask for restraint from the extreme right bench, which broke out into screams. “Let’s try not to give this spectacle, because people don’t deserve it,” said the socialist.
It was of no use. The next turn was for the socialist Artemi Rallo, who had barely opened his mouth when the Vox deputy Manuel Mariscal Zabala was already shouting “traitor” and “corrupt” at him. The deputy secretary of communication of the extreme right even stood up from his seat next to his colleague Pedro Fernández, waving his right arm and pointing his finger at the seats of ERC and Sumar. “Traitors! Corrupt! ”He repeated. Armengol called him to order but the commotion continued for a few minutes.
Rallo, who was waiting to continue his intervention in the gallery, responded to the Vox bench with epithets. “A neo-fascism that attacks, wild and brutal; philonazis,” he said. His words once again generated a stir in the chamber and Armengol tried again to calm the mood. “This is not possible,” he said. “Being a democrat means listening to those who think differently,” he reasoned, having difficulty silencing the Vox deputies without actually expelling them to avoid conditioning the vote.
But the extreme right still reserved one last performance. When the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, was casting his vote out loud, they insulted him again: “Traitor!” An adjective that they repeated with each of the ministers who said ‘yes’ to the amnesty law.
Harassment in the halls of Congress
At the end of the Plenary Session, with the law already approved, members of Vox have maintained their harassing attitude against members of the Government. The first vice president, María Jesús Montero, spoke to the press as she left the Chamber and said that this Thursday was “a very important day for the coexistence of the country as a whole.”
Before being able to continue, a deputy interrupted the Minister of Finance: “And for the betrayal, great, too.” Montero replied: “Freedom of expression is the most important thing.” “And we respect it,” the deputy replied, while a colleague of his blurted out: “This is a betrayal of Spain.”
Present in the same tumult was the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, who already in the outer courtyard has continued receiving comments from the extreme right deputies.
One of the most active in his harassment has been Manuel Mariscal Zabala, who as Vice Secretary of Communication of Vox is one of the main people responsible for the continuous veto of the extreme right in their actions to the media that do not follow the slogans they want. . elDiario.es is one of them, as are El País or the SER chain, among others.
The deputy for Toledo came to record inside the Hemicycle, in the cafeteria reserved for deputies, where ERC representatives were having a coffee with the leader of their party, Oriol Junqueras. The video, promoted by some pseudomedia, concluded with Mariscal saying that the Catalan politician “should be in jail.”
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