Daniel, a resident of Náquera (Valencia), has explained to Cadena SER that, after learning about the government program of the municipality, the only one with a Vox mayor in the entire Valencian Community as a result of an agreement with the PP, he decided to hang the rainbow flag on her balcony. He had never done it before, but he did it after learning that the mayor has banned that flag from municipal buildings.
A few hours later, he heard several screams in the street. When he looked out, according to what he told Cadena SER, he saw two men who rebuked him and complained about the flag, to the point that they even threatened to throw stones at him. However, they did not do it because they were driving and the driver feared that Daniel could take the license plate and report them, the witness says. At that moment, Daniel decided to remove the flag despite feeling that his freedom of expression was restricted.
This incident occurs a few days after the PP and Vox pact in this population that has handed over the mayoralty to the candidate of the ultra formation, Iván Expósito. The PSPV of Náquera (Valencia) has called for the local neighborhood to place LGTBIQ flags on their balconies, terraces or windows, taking advantage of the Pride celebration, after banning the new municipal government -made up of Vox, the party of which it is the mayor, and the PP – the placement of these badges on the facades of municipal buildings.
“The La Noria pact is really the pact of shame and hate”, has censured the PSPV, which has warned that the government agreement “puts forward that the LGTBIQ flag does not take place and denies sexist violence, while claims to promote constitutional values”. Thus, he has denounced that “the duo of right and extreme right turns Náquera into the laboratory of hate and discrimination policies towards groups that are victims of greater violence.”
Along these lines, he has criticized that, while the PP “dedicates itself to repeating that gender violence exists and must be combated”, the ‘populares’ of Náquera “adopt Vox’s ideology and buy its speech”. “They claim to celebrate the Day of the Spanish Constitution but cut rights and freedoms in what is in their hands,” he lamented.
Finally, they have reproached the new mayor, Iván Expósito (Vox), who “barely three days ago pronounced in his speech that he would govern for all” and now, however, “he no longer only denies the floor to the Naqueranos represented by the opposition , but also the representativeness of all the members of the LGTBIQ collective who live in our town”. “It denies the reality of thousands of women murdered, persecuted and beaten by their partners,” he warned.
The government agreement, signed last Friday, by which the Vox candidate, Iván Expósito, was invested as mayor with the votes in favor of his formation and the ‘popular’ mayors, establishes, among other measures, that the municipal executive “will promote constitutional values ??and, in accordance with the flag law”, will not place LGTBI flags “on balconies and facades of municipal facilities”, will replace the concentrations of ‘No to sexist violence’ with ‘No to violence’ or ‘We condemn all violence’, and will celebrate the day of the Constitution, Hispanic Heritage and a day of “municipal memory of the victims of terrorism.”
The municipal spokesman for the PSPV, Víctor Navarro, explained to La Vanguardia that when they governed they put up the flag of the LGTBI collective coinciding with the celebration on Gay Pride (June 28) although in Nàquera, a municipality of barely 6,000 residents there were no a celebration as such of that day. Navarro shows his surprise because the government pact between Vox and PP does put this “prohibition” in writing as well as the denial of gender violence, while forgetting issues that, in his opinion, should be a priority for the people such as construction of an institute or a sports center
