In the middle of Pride month and after the controversies that have arisen in several town councils and communities, Más Madrid redoubles its offensive and asks the Government to clarify what measures it plans to take to “safeguard and make visible the rights of LGTBI people.” In separate questions posed by Senator Carla Antonelli and Sumar deputy Tesh Sidi, the Madrid party warns of the “significant threat” that the group faces just over a year after the majority of autonomous communities have passed into the hands of the right.
“The PP, which has never been an active defender of LGTBI rights, has assumed ideological postulates of the extreme right and promises to modify or repeal the laws that recognize the rights of this group. This includes the trans law, and the assisted reproduction law for lesbian women. LGTBI organizations fear that these setbacks could lead to a return to the progress made in terms of LGTBI rights in the last two decades,” states the document registered this Monday in the Lower House.
Among the antecedents cited, Más Madrid includes the refusal of the Huesca City Council to hang the rainbow flag in the Casino and the decision to repaint the banks with flags, something that, according to the complaint, “means not responding to the requests of the LGTBI community.” In the letter, Sidi also recalls that the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne—from Vox—requested that the agreement to display the LGTBI flag on the façade of Parliament on the occasion of Pride Day be declared “null.” “He argues that this action violates the objectivity and neutrality of public institutions, in accordance with the Constitution and the flag law of 1981. Le Senne maintains that displaying unofficial flags in public buildings is incompatible with the current constitutional and legal framework. Furthermore, he qualifies the display of the rainbow flag as an “interested appropriation” by certain political parties that support the LGTBI collective,” the text states.
Finally, Más Madrid refers to the controversy unleashed in Toledo, where Vice Mayor Inés Cañizares, also from Santiago Abascal’s ultra party, has assured that, although her party “is not opposed to any celebration,” she has insisted that on the balcony of the City Council “the official flags should fly” and not the rainbow one. “That has always been our response and it will be,” Cañizares commented during the assessment of the first year of local government of PP and Vox, in statements reported by Europa Press.
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