The mayor of Puente de Génave (Jaén), Francisco García Avilés, from Vox, has launched a Franco calendar that has been edited by the labor consultancy that he ran and where he worked until his election as local councilor last June, although he has separated from the City Council.
In the almanac you can see the images of Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera, along with the phrase “I am responsible only to God and history.”
About 800 copies of the calendar have been published and distributed among the clients of the García Consultancy
However, the mayor has disconnected this calendar from his position as top municipal official. “It is an almanac that has been created for at least 15 years in the consultancy, of which I am no longer the owner because I have transferred it, and where the City Council has nothing to do with it,” García Avilés indicated.
From the PSOE, the municipal spokesperson and former mayor, Ramón Gallego, believes, however, that García Avilés should have refrained from launching that calendar this year “out of respect for the City Council.”
The vice president of the Provincial Council, Pilar Parra (PSOE), accused the PP, in Thursday’s plenary session, of collusion with Vox: “You have opened the door to sociological Francoism without complexes,” said Parra, alluding to the Puente de Génave almanac .
Furthermore, this mayor has had in his municipal office in the town hall a small statue of Franco that, he claims, a neighbor gave him.
However, last June, on the occasion of Pride Day, García Avilés also became the first Vox mayor in all of Spain who decided to place the LGTBI flag on the balcony of City Hall, despite the fact that he had been very critical on social networks towards people from that group.
Francisco García Avilés was the most voted in the last municipal elections by obtaining, with the Vox list, six of the 11 councilors of the Corporation, compared to four from the PSOE (which governed the municipality for three decades) and one from the PP.
