Even before serving 50 days in office, the vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León and regional leader of Vox, Juan García-Gallardo, is already the subject of a disapproval initiative in the Cortes for the treatment he gave to the disabled PSOE prosecutor, Noelia Frutos, stating that she was going to answer his question “as if she were a person like all the others”.
And far from bringing positions closer together, the previous debate has fueled the controversy after Gallardo accused Frutos of not wanting him to apologize for what he told him in the previous plenary session of the Cortes, since he was “predisposed in advance to become the offended one”.
García-Gallardo has asked for the floor after debating in Parliament a PSOE initiative that sought its reprobation and that has not gone ahead having been rejected with the votes of the PP and Vox, compared to the rest of the parties that have supported it.
After the vote, asked in the corridors of Parliament for García-Gallardo’s words, the president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (PP), summoned the former president of the United States Ronald Reagan to deliver a concise no comment” -in English without comments-.
After defending his “selfless” work in an association that cares for children with disabilities and challenging the rest of the parliamentarians to demonstrate that they have made a “personal and economic, affection and affection” contribution greater than theirs to help associations of this type, García-Gallardo has accused the Socialists of “instrumentalizing” his words in a “gross” way.
Immediately afterward, he addressed Frutos herself to tell her that “although she now pretends to be, she doesn’t want her to apologize”, since that “allows her to continue being exploited by her party for spurious purposes”.
García-Gallardo has affirmed that on the day of their confrontation, Noelia Frutos had her “written intervention” and was “predisposed in advance to act offended”, for which she has asked her to “reflect” on “the role she is playing” and about whether it wants to “continue to be used for such base purposes”.
The vice president has considered that this whole situation is the result of a “campaign of harassment and demolition”, but has been satisfied that the autonomous coalition government “does not take a step back in the face of manipulations and subsidized political activists”.
Before these allusions, García-Gallardo had expressed that people with disabilities have all his respect “and more”, since he has recalled that before dedicating himself to politics he collaborated “without asking for anything in return” with an entity dedicated to the attention of children with disabilities (Fundación Creer).
He has also complained that he has had to “endure” the opposition’s “lack of respect”, with statements among which he has highlighted those of “Nazi”, “parasite”, “pimp” and “coward”, among others. , convinced that the Cortes should not be the stage for this “baseness”.
After listening to the vice president, the socialist deputy spokesperson Patricia Gómez, who had defended the initiative to fail García-Gallardo, considered that far from “apologizing”, with her intervention she had once again disrespected her bench partner Noelia Frutos.
Before, the representative of the PSOE has asked the PP to clarify “which side it is on”, whether it is “respect and tolerance or that of those who neither respect nor tolerate”, in reference to Vox and its leader in this Community, whom He has said that while Noelia Frutos is an example of “courage” and a “fighting woman”, he “is not an example of anything”.
The spokesman for the Popular Group, Raúl de la Hoz, has argued that the Courts should not be debating whether the vice president should be “reproved or not”, but rather the way to resolve the Siro crisis, whose workers have concentrated this Wednesday before the Autonomous Parliament and has accused the Socialists of turning this forum into a “quagmire” with “sterile and puerile” debates: “We are not going to enter, we are not going to go down into the mud,” he warned.
De la Hoz did have words of praise for the socialist prosecutor Noelia Frutos, who he sees as “brave” and “fighter” and who with “effort and tenacity” has managed to be a representative of the citizens of Burgos who voted for her.
In the case of Vox, the secretary general of the Parliamentary Group, David Hierro, has taken the floor, who has defended García-Gallardo’s commitment “with facts” to help people with disabilities, while he has accused the socialists of governing in Spain together with the “heirs of ETA”, which he has blamed for the existence of “1,294” disabled people as a result of their terrorist attacks.
Both De la Hoz (PP) and Hierro (Vox) have mentioned that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, referred yesterday to people with disabilities as “disabled”, specifically when he was proposing to the PP to remove that term from the text of the Constitution. considering it inappropriate.
In her reply, the socialist prosecutor has defended that she was not going to “go down” to the level of “Mr. Vox” because she respects and values ??the institutions, while she has accused the leaders of that party of wanting to “dynamit them from within”, while that in the PP they are to “bow down” and “pay homage” to the vice president.
The rest of the parties have agreed to make the behavior of the vice president ugly, to whom his predecessor in office and current attorney for Cs, Francisco Igea, has said that “this is great”: “You are going to hurt yourself, I I would leave it,” he snapped.
In the case of the spokesman for United We Can, Pablo Fernández, has described as “despicable” the “humiliating treatment” given by García-Gallardo to Noelia Frutos, although he has considered it worse that he has not apologized and that the PP tolerates it: “No It reaches Noelia Frutos not even at the height of the shoes,” he settled.
The UPL spokesman, Luis Mariano Santos, has criticized the “grotesque attitude” of the representatives of Vox, who in his opinion should apply the courage they say they have to “ask for forgiveness” and not exceed the “limit of personal respect” in their institutional interventions.
