Week full of interviews with the candidates for the presidency of the Government of Spain on the occasion of the upcoming general elections on July 23. Ana Rosa Quintana had Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Pedro Sánchez respectively on Monday and Tuesday, while Pedro Piqueras, on Informativos Telecinco, did the same with Yolanda Díaz and Santiago Abascal.
In fact, the presence of the leader of Vox led the presenter of the Mediaset news to put on the table the withdrawal of the LGTBI flag from public institutions, among other issues. Given the response of the far-right formation, Piqueras did not hesitate to cut him off, which silenced the politician for an instant.
“As you know, it was a widespread custom in our country that, around the Pride festival, the LGTBI flag appeared in consistories, regional governments. Suddenly, you arrive at the institutions after the May elections and something that we could call the war of the flags is unleashed”, Pedro Piqueras began by saying to Santiago Abascal at a given moment in the interview on Informativos Telecinco.
“Why the removal of LGTBI flags from many sites or not putting them up? In the event that you are the ones who manage that institution”, the journalist wanted to know. To which the far-right party leader replied with “it’s very clear to us.”
And then he elaborated his explanation in this regard: “We think, first of all, that this flag is an ideological flag that does not represent all homosexuals. There are many homosexuals, who vote for Vox or other political parties, who do not feel represented by a lobby or by a specific flag.
After this justification, Abascal assured: “What’s more, the flag that represents the homosexuals I know is the flag of Spain, which integrates us and welcomes us all regardless of our social origin, the place in Spain where we we live, of our sex or our sexual orientation”.
Here he also wanted to denounce “the lie of the President of the Government these days in European institutions, saying that this flag was not hung in the Town Halls meant that human rights were being violated.”
In this regard, Abascal stated that “it must be remembered that the Supreme Court has said that no flag that is not an official flag can be placed in any type of institution. That is to say, the national flag of Spain, the flag of the region”.
This is when Pedro Piqueras cut the guest short and put him between a rock and a hard place. “Yes, flags are allowed for reasons of solidarity, I have been reading it before, and it could perfectly be the LGTBI flag for reasons of solidarity,” he said.
A statement that silenced the leader of Vox for an instant, who finally settled the issue with “what I have read of the Supreme Court says otherwise.”
