All the parties of the parliamentary arch, except PP and Vox, have charged against the vice president of the Junta de Castilla y León (Vox), Juan García-Gallardo, for his treatment yesterday of the socialist attorney Noelia Frutos. "I am not going to treat your disrespect with any condescension and I am going to respond as if you were a person like all the others and not as your team does," is the controversial phrase launched yesterday by García-Gallardo to the deputy with a disability in the Assembly of Castile and León.
The most institutional reactions have been those issued by two government ministers, such as the Presidency Minister, Félix Bolaños, and the Economy Minister, Nadia Calviño. The first, when responding to the Vox deputy, Macarena Olona, in the control session of the Executive in Congress, has alluded to the "disgusting" statements made this Tuesday by the vice president of Castilla y León. In this sense, Bolaños has also directed his criticism at the PP for "putting a far-rightist" in the Government of Castilla y León so that he "insults", "humiliates" and "disrespects" a person with a disability.
Nadia Calviño, in the same session, has accused Vox of instilling fear in Spanish citizens due to the economic situation. And she has reminded him that her party "disrespected people with disabilities." For the vice president, Vox is a party "that lacks respect for different people" and that generates fear, "nervousness and confusion in citizens." Calviño has taken the opportunity to reproach Vox for proposing "distributing weapons to citizens" hours after a shooting in the United States.
The Minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta, has also had his words for the Vice President of the Castilian-Leonese Board, describing him as "indecent, unpresentable and heartless".
The ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has branded as "absolute shame" and "savage" the words of the Vice President of the Board in the corridors of the Lower House. For Rufián, “this type of parliamentarism should end, this type of politics, in short, and this type of people in the institutions”.
And he has added a second reflection "which is very hard at least for me," he said. "That's how they win, that's how they win votes, that's how they win elections", he declared to verify that in Congress "we see him every day, Macarena Olona calls Mr. Bolaños 'perejil' minister and nothing happens here", and for this "he takes advantage of a question that was not about anything he was saying to encourage his candidacy, and nothing happens here.
"These statements are grotesque and disgusting, they are disgusting, you cannot talk like that about the disabled, the one who is not a normal person is the vice president of Castilla y León", the 'number two' of Ciudadanos, Edmundo Bal, has also snapped in the halls of Congress.
For the spokesman for Más País, Iñigo Errejón, the leader of Vox in that community is "a fake vice president who has no portfolio or powers, who is there basically just to talk and who every time he does so brings the entire Government of Castilla y León in a problem because he says what he really thinks.
The different voices of the Popular Party that have spoken about what happened have not made any condemnation. The popular spokesman in that celebrated commission, recalls that Gallardo "is not an authorized voice" for many of the issues to which he has alluded.
Its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has limited himself to calling the statements of the vice president of the Board "surprising". The president of the Community and his Government, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has not even made a lukewarm reference. When asked if he supported those statements, he only pointed out "I support the Government of Castilla y León, that is why I am the president."
The same prosecutor affected by the controversy has assured that she expected a reaction from the president of the Board before the "unpleasant" moment that was experienced in Parliament with the vice president. "This is Vox", she has asserted.
It is worth reviewing the events that occurred in the first institutional face-to-face meeting of García-Gallardo on Tuesday. The controversy came when the socialist deputy alluded to Gallardo's statements on April 9, in which she blurted out that "women cannot be treated as if they were disabled", to ask her the following: "How does the vice president think of the Junta de Castilla y León that we must treat women with disabilities in Castilla y León?" It should be remembered that Frutos suffers from a disability for which he requires the use of a wheelchair, and that he is a figure who witnessed with his arrival at the Board in 2019 that parliament is not prepared for people under the condition of the.
The Vice President of the Board made a point before going into the matter on the matter, to comment that "I am not going to treat your disrespect with any condescension and I am going to respond as if you were a person like all the others."
The controversy does not stop at his intervention with Noelia Frutos. The vice president of Vox has gone down to the mud more times, to attack the sexual education of children and his predecessor in office, Francisco Igea.
García-Gallardo accused the government of "perverting" children with sex education in the classroom. The far-right politician made statements such as "6-year-old children are perverted" and that they do not need to know "sexual postures, non-binary sex, fluid sex, the mid-pensioner...". He also clarified that they will "protect children in accordance with the Constitution and international treaties, and free the school from gender ideology." He also attacked the abortion law for "crushing children with disabilities."
The Vox attorney also alluded to Igea's profession, which is a doctor specializing in the digestive tract: "Now they will have to put up with it in the hospital, doing colonoscopies."
