The PSPV-PSOE deputies in the Valencia Provincial Council have left the plenary session after the Vox spokesperson in the provincial institution described the Socialist Party as “criminal” and, in the first instance, refused to withdraw the insult, although he did. has done in a later intervention.
As reported by the province’s PSPV in a statement, the socialists have been absent from the plenary session “when the extreme right has once again taken the floor” after the socialist spokesperson, Carlos Fernández Bielsa, requested that in the minutes of the plenary session The insult from the Vox spokesperson did not appear, who had said that the PSOE is “a criminal party that persecuted nuns.”
Fernández Bielsa has asked that a meeting of spokespersons be convened so that “this absurd intervention” is not repeated and has described Vox’s attack as “intolerable, shameful and infamous”.
In addition, he has recommended to the far-right deputy the book by the American philosopher Jason Stanley, which “explains the functioning of fascism and is titled Facha,” the PSPV indicates in the statement.
“You will see yourself recognized in that book with your words today,” added the socialist spokesperson who stated: “Calling this party criminal is a lack of respect for history and all its representatives.”
