Finally, the LGTBI flag will be hung on the façade of Les Corts Valencianes on the occasion of the celebration against LGTBIphobia (May 17) and Pride Day (June 28). This was approved this Tuesday after a vote in which the PP was left alone because its Vox partners voted against and PSPV and Compromís abstained. “We Valencians are not here to hang rags,” said the spokesperson for this group, José María Llanos, who later corrected his words before the media; “If you prefer to call it a cloth, then it is not an official flag.”
The trustee of the PP, Miguel Barrachina, has congratulated himself for bringing forward this initiative that was able to be approved thanks to the abstention of the opposition in the Mesa de Les Corts. An abstention that socialists and the spokespersons of Compromís have justified considering that it is a “decaffeinated” celebration, since their proposal that representatives of the Valencian LGTBI Council and the Trans Consultative Council of the Community be present at the event has not been accepted .
In fact, both parties have committed to convening these groups in a parallel event, as already happened after the suppression of the Guillem Agulló award. “The PP is in favor of all recognition of the LGTBI community and if it were not for us the flag would not be hung,” Barrachina refuted. The popular leader remembers that there was no agreement in the past to celebrate this day, although it is true that the event has been carried out year after year. Likewise, when asked by journalists, he responded to Vox’s statement by calling the flag with the rainbow colors a “rag”: “For the PP, all flags deserve the utmost respect.”
The president of Les Corts, Llanos Massó, also wanted to give her version of the matter and justify the meaning of her vote. “Our position is that public buildings are not the place to place flags and banners; at Vox we are not in favor of collectivizing people based on their sexual orientation,” she indicated. Massó explained that “the flag will be placed without any act or anything else.” For this reason, she has indicated the second Valencian authority, “if there is no act, the Presidency of Les Corts does not have to be there.”
