Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) has registered this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies, coinciding with the day of the National Holiday, a non-legal proposal to ask the Government to suppress military parades and cut the budget of the Ministry of Defense allocated to this to dedicate it to social policies.
In the initiative, registered in Spanish and Catalan, the ERC parliamentary group asks the Government to “suppress military parades or any other military or military act or ceremony that involves superfluous military exhibition expenses.”
In addition, it demands “cutting the Ministry of Defense budget allocated for such purposes and dedicating it to budget items for social policies.”
In the non-legal proposal, which ERC trusts will be debated and voted on in a plenary session of Congress, the Catalan independence party expresses its discontent with “the immoral amount of economic resources allocated to military parades”, such as the one held this Thursday in Madrid on the occasion of the National Holiday.
The party led by Oriol Junqueras denounces that with this party “an attempt is made to proclaim the existence in the State of a predominantly homogeneous and united Spanish culture”, which it assures does not fit with the plurinational and plurilingual reality and the sovereigntist and independence movements within it itself. State”.
