Vox is not willing to reduce the tension and insists on its cultural war against consensus that no one questioned until the emergence of the far-right in the institutions. Despite the balances that the PP tries to strike (forced to draw some red lines on matters such as gender violence without angering its partners in the Valencian government), the Voxistas are comfortable in the fight and show no intention of contributing to calm the escalation of tension that Valencian politics is experiencing these days.
Yesterday's plenary session in Les Corts was much calmer than last week's session where the cocktail of laws presented by PP and Vox and the file of the Mónica Oltra case turned the president's control session into a pressure cooker. However, in the corridors of the Hemicycle, the spokesperson for the ultra formation, José María Llanos, showed his lack of waist by refusing to support a PP proposal so as not to make an affront to the LGTBI collective.
As this newspaper already pointed out, the change in the spokesperson of the Valencian Parliament and the commitment to a tougher and more inflexible profile was not coincidental. The two regional elections in Galicia and the Basque Country have aggravated the war that PP and Vox have at the national level, and the desire of the latter to mark territory.
The popular ones, already tired of having to answer every day for statements from their traveling companions, tried on Monday afternoon to calm things down after in the morning popular and voxists knocked down a Compromís proposal to commemorate the world day against LGTBIphobia (May 17) and Pride Day (June 28) placing the flag with the colors of the San Martín arch on the façade of the Palau dels Borja. In addition, the Valencian coalition demanded to give a voice at the event to the representatives of the LGTBI and Trans groups.
Although the PP maneuvered in the afternoon to try to promote an alternative that would facilitate the support of Vox (which holds the Presidency of Parliament), José María Llanos rejected the attempt. “We believe that defending the dignity and equality of all people, regardless of their sexual, ideological, religious or racial orientation, means not making them different; "Do not make positive or negative discriminations, because true equality is never achieved by exercising these types of discriminations," indicated the ombudsman of the formation chaired by Santiago Abascal.
By the way, the opposition did not like the PP's counteroffer either, understanding that it weakened the initial initiative of Compromís, so the political battle may mean that the rainbow flag does not end up being hung on the door of Parliament as has happened in the last years; to the delight of Vox, who would once again get their way.
What happened on Tuesday shows that the ultra party is not going to give in on its claims despite the fact that this makes the PP uncomfortable. At most, some small clarification like the one that the Minister of Justice, Elisa Nuñez, was forced to make almost 48 hours later, after having stated that Francisco Franco was only “a historical figure.” Some statements that generated a stir at the national level - the PSOE asked that he be dismissed - and that forced the councilor to admit, hours after the interview in Las Provincias, that he was also a dictator. Yesterday, in Les Corts, Llanos dropped that “Franco was a historical figure like Stalin or Azaña.”
And Vox has no problem criticizing its partners. This weekend, without going any further, he criticized the support of the Valencia Provincial Council, chaired by the PP, for the Trobades de Escola Valenciana.
