Vicente Barrera, Valencian vice president and Minister of Culture, and prominent member of Vox, insisted today that he found it “outrageous” that former president Ximo Puig participated last Monday in the tribute paid to Professor Manuel Broseta, murdered by ETA in 1992. “Maybe I was wrong in one aspect, which is that Mr. Puig was not there of his own free will but rather invited by Broseta’s family and in that sense, I have all my respect because they are the children of the victim, who decide” he added.
His position has not changed regarding the message he launched on social network X against the socialist leader, harshly criticizing the presence of the socialist leader at the tribute. Message that had as its first response that of Manuel Broseta’s son, Pablo, regional secretary of the PP, who warned him that Ximo Puig had come because he had asked him to and that his presence, along with that of Carlos Mazón, was the best news for the family. Yesterday, furthermore, the Valencian president made it clear that he does not share Barrera’s criticism: “I was very happy that Ximo Puig was there.”
None of this has changed the position of the Valencian vice president. Because he described it as “outrageous” that Puig attended the tribute when “we had just seen, 48 hours before, 20,000 people, his government partners, those who support the Government, in a demonstration in Bilbao”, since “we all know who “They are those people, who are the ETA members.”
“I was deeply outraged,” said Barrera, who on his of the event while his party, the PSOE, “hands over Spain to Otegui and the rest of the gang.”
Barrera has also indicated that he does not share that “ETA has disappeared”, since in his opinion “it is still as alive as ever, only they do not kill, but they are the same and they are now the partners and those who support the Government.” “Those very nice messages that Mr. Puig made the other day, I think you have to go send them to your partners, go to Bilbao to tell them. You have to have the courage and freedom of your partners.”
Asked about the statements of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, in which he assured not to share the statements he made on social networks, he assured that he has “absolute respect” not only for Mazón’s demonstrations “but also for those they do against what I think” because “it is legitimate, but I am from another party.
“I have many lines of agreement with Mr. Mazón, but we have some lines that may be different,” he said, although he specified: “this does not mean that there is any crisis.” “Man (in reference to Mazón) is more prudent or thinks differently and I say what he thinks,” he stated.
“I have my opinions and my own speaker and Mr. Mazón has his and if one day he doesn’t think what I think is right, it seems legitimate to me,” but “I have my version of the facts and I tell my truth,” he added. .
