It was an extraordinary plenary session, the second in a row that took place this Wednesday at the Badajoz City Hall at 12:00 noon. And the mayor of Badajoz, Ignacio Grajera (PP), who governs with an absolute majority, announced that the session was going to begin with a minute of silence, before going fully into the day’s issues, as a tribute to the Ermua councilor Miguel Ángel Blanco as these days coincide with the 26th anniversary of his murder. The mayor had warned in the presentation of the minute of silence that the initiative reached the City Council through the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation and that, in turn, it also served to pay a respectful tribute to the former socialist councilor of Badajoz, Francisco Muñoz, who He was Minister of Culture, and who passed away a few days ago.
To everyone’s surprise, the Vox councilors present – two of the three that it has in the City Council, because one, precisely the spokesperson, did not attend the plenary session – did not get up from their seats, unlike the rest of the groups with representation (PP and PSOE). So did the public present in the plenary hall. All those present were perplexed by the attitude of the Vox councillors.
This formation has indicated after the controversy raised that it takes the victims of ETA “very seriously” to be in the tributes where the PSOE is part, a “party that has spent an entire legislature laundering the murderers and executioners of ETA ” .
Vox recalled that “it has always” expressed its “strongest rejection of the cowardly murderers who sowed terror for decades in Spain” and that “it is such that they cannot” “coincide with the Socialist Group in any act, since they are the government partners of Bildu”. In the same way, he has shown his “total respect” for the former city councilor, Francisco Muñoz, and has expressed his “deepest condolences” to his family and friends.
At the end of the plenary session, the mayor Ignacio Grajera declared, in reference to the Vox councillors: “They forget the victim, Miguel Ángel Blanco.” And he added: “Today was a day to remember him and to express our respect for his suffering and that of his family, as well as to remember the pain caused by his murder.”
In this sense, the mayor has criticized that “not to rise up in his tribute is something inconceivable, no matter how much the disastrous pact policies of the PSOE in recent years are not shared.” Finally, he added: “We do not understand how he has not put himself ahead of everyone he went to and is a symbol of the union against terrorism of the ETA band.”
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