The president of Vox and candidate for the presidency of the Government, Santiago Abascal, has said that he does not celebrate Gay Pride Day because he is “straight”, although “everyone is free to do what they want”.
The context. Abascal made these statements to journalists shortly before starring in the center of Ávila in a pre-electoral campaign act, accompanied, among others, by the number one on the list of this formation for the province of Avila, Georgina Trías, and by the counselor of Industry of the Junta de Castilla y León, Mariano Veganzones.
The phrase. Asked if, coinciding with demonstrations on the occasion of Pride Day, he has something to celebrate, the leader of Vox has indicated: “I am in favor of the right to demonstrate and I am straight and I do not celebrate Gay Pride Day, but each one is free to do whatever you want.”
The event was held in the Mercado Chico square, in the heart of Ávila and in front of the capital’s City Hall, two of whose balconies hung two rainbow flags in which the colors of the trans flag could also be seen.
In a live connection to the TVE program La hora de la 1, Santiago Abascal has assured that this day is “much less important” than some politicians and lobbies want to “make believe” and believes that there are many homosexual people, some of which vote for Vox, who “do not identify with that message or believe they have to have a special day of celebration.”
Abascal has boasted in Ávila of having obtained “quotas and audiences much higher” than the one obtained this Tuesday by the President of the Government and candidate for re-election for the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, in El Hormiguero, on Antena 3.
Minutes before starring in the center of Ávila in a pre-electoral campaign act, Abascal was asked by journalists in this regard, given the absence of the Vox candidate on these television programs. In this regard, Santiago Abascal has indicated that “the key is to leave your skin” and make your message “reach”, despite the fact that in his opinion “they are trying to prevent it from happening” from “the bipartisanship and its media satellites”.
The PP-Vox alliances and their consequences. The pacts of both parties to govern in various town halls have also meant removing the rainbow flag from the town hall balconies. The ultra-conservative formation has repeatedly expressed its rejection of the celebration and the parades and demonstrations that Pride entails. An example of this is the town of Náquera where they have managed to achieve their first mayoralty in the Valencian Community and have acted accordingly by denying the possibility of hanging the rainbow flag in the City Hall.
Abascal’s party has also been in the crosshairs of the group in recent weeks after they installed the so-called ‘hate canvas’ at the confluence of Alcalá and Goya streets in Madrid. The advertising campaign, under the slogan “decide what matters”, explicitly called for throwing away the LGTBI movement, pro-independence, feminist, communist, environmentalists and other groups contrary to their ideology. The canvas was removed this same Tuesday after the demand of the Electoral Board of the Madrid Zone.
