The LGTBI flag will not hang this year from the facade of the Balearic Parliament in the first decision made by the Board of the Chamber after the election of the Vox deputy, Gabriel Le Senne, as president. The decision has been made with the votes of the PP and Vox and thus breaks with a tradition of years in which the flag has flown on the façade without the PP raising objections.
The request for the LGTBI flag to hang from the façade had been registered by the PSOE and Més, the two parties that remain in the opposition after the victory of the PP in the last elections. The Table has ruled out this option, something that has led to the resounding complaint of the representatives of the PSOE. Its deputy spokesman in the Balearic Chamber, Marc Pons, has denounced the “ultra-conservative drift” of the Balearic PP after its pact with Vox.
“The PP breaks a dynamic that had been applied these years and, from the agreement between all, to participate in the visualization of the LGTBI collective,” he denounced. “The PP must explain this change of position and why it up to now defended these approaches, today it has decided to make a different decision,” he added.
“These measures go towards a Spain that is much more dandruff, much older and that intends to make the rights and freedoms of a society like the Balearic Islands invisible, which is diverse,” lamented Pons, who has insisted that he declined, making it clear that it is Vox who marks the postulates of the PP since the first decision made in Parliament “They are only demonstrating the monitoring of Vox’s policies”, and he has regretted that the negotiation between PP and Vox includes this type of decision.
PP and Vox continue negotiating on the islands and it is expected that, throughout this week, the content of the agreements will be known, although the first information suggests that Vox agrees not to enter the future Government of Marga Prohens and let govern alone in exchange for establishing mechanisms to monitor that the PP complies with the agreements closed with Vox.
The two parties signed a pre-agreement through which Vox achieved the Presidency of the Balearic Parliament and agreed on a minimum programmatic document that they are now developing. The text incorporates a good part of the demands of Vox and the rhetoric of this party in expressions such as “nation unity”, “intra-family violence” or “linguistic imposition”.
One of the issues on which he continues to negotiate is that of the language. The document speaks of freedom of choice of the “first language” in schools and says that an educational model based on merit and effort and “free of ideological indoctrination” and “linguistic imposition” will be consolidated.
The pact includes a section to eliminate the language requirement in healthcare and mentions the need to support and fight against “violence against women”, but then it talks about “domestic violence, especially that suffered by women , those suffered by children and those suffered by the elderly, as well as the growing child-parent violence”.
