The VOX deputy for Toledo Manuel Mariscal assured today during a speech in Congress that “the stage after the civil war” – in reference to the Franco dictatorship, without citing it – “was not a dark stage, but one of reconstruction, of progress and reconciliation to achieve national unity.” He said this during a parliamentary debate related to RTVE.
From the PSOE, the deputy Sergio Gutiérrez has accused him of “making an apology for the Franco dictatorship” and criticizes that this is “his historical memory”, in allusion to the reality that, he commented through the social network that of a very small part of Spain that lived without economic restrictions. This congressman’s grandmother couldn’t open a bank account without her husband’s permission, book a hotel room, or her generation get a divorce even if they beat her. This was progress,” he ironized.
He then recalled the lack of freedoms imposed by Francisco Franco’s regime after the civil war, until the arrival of the current democracy. “If you even thought of saying that you believed in social justice you would end up in the dungeon and if you complained you could receive a beating. This was reconciliation. But it was a chachi piruli time…”
The PSOE of Castilla-La Mancha later asked whether the PP in this autonomous community can maintain government pacts with “a party that defends the dictatorship” and appealed directly to its regional president Paco Núñez: “If I had the most minimal democratic culture would require Vox Castilla-La Mancha to condemn these words and if not, break their government pacts.”
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