It cannot be that the brawls in Congress look like the shooting in OK Corral some days, because Madrid is not Tombstone, nor can the president of the Lower House act with the forcefulness of Wyatt Earp. But this week an exceptional event has occurred again: a Vox deputy has been expelled from the rostrum for her foul language, calling the Bildu parliamentarians ETA members and delegitimizing the rest of the groups for accepting "terrorists" in the institutions .
María Teresa López Álvarez turned her speech into a rally, when the issue she was supposed to refer to was "the recovery of fiscal rules and their consequences." After calling her to order three times, the vice president of Congress, Gloria Elizo (Podemos) closed the microphone and expelled her from the room, reminding her that the Lower House was not a circus.
It is not the first time that Vox deputies have had to leave the session room for their interventions. One of the most famous was that of the deputy José María Sánchez, who called a PSOE deputy a “witch” in the use of the word. That contemptuous intervention served for the president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, to make a speech to the parliamentarians, which is already the history of the institution, in which, after demanding that insults and offenses remain outside the Chamber, they He urged to build a society capable of listening to the reasons of the other, of understanding those who think differently and of putting themselves in the shoes of those who disagree with our positions.
But it does not seem that this speech made much of an impression on Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, who in recent hours has posted a Tombstone cowboy warning on Twitter, after the incident involving María Teresa López Álvarez: "Next time it will have to be the police force my parliamentarians to leave the rostrum”. He only needed to say like Earp: "Tell them that, if not, I will go after them and that I will take hell with me, do you hear me?" But neither Spain is the Wild West, nor is cockiness listed in mature societies.
