"The reconquest is not over." With this declaration of principles, the secretary general of Vox, Javier Ortega Smith, participated this Thursday in the celebration of the Taking of Granada, in which the city commemorates every January 2 the conquest of the city by the Catholic Monarchs, and that Each year generates moments of verbal confrontations between those who defend the tradition and those who consider it a vestige of a "totalitarian" past.
Vox goes beyond that dialectic and vindicates the Taking of Granada as a symbol of the current battle against "radical Islamism" and against those who, according to their way of understanding it, want to impose "their Salafist mosques." "We do not want, nor should we forget, that today 528 years ago the Catholic Monarchs consummated the reconquest of Spain. There is still indelible pride for a seven-century feat. And the determination not to submit to Islam," the Santiago party wrote Abascal on your Twitter account.
Thousands of people have participated in a celebration and, one more year, the Plaza del Carmen has become the stage for the exchange of insults and shouts between supporters and detractors of La Toma, two sides that have fought with chants and flags, this year controlled by police officers to prevent the display of undemocratic symbols. Thus, while the supporters of the tradition have chanted slogans against the left and the Catalan independence workers, their detractors have branded the party as a racist. From eleven o'clock in the morning, in the Plaza del Carmen there have been slogans such as "Nothing to celebrate" or "outside the fascists of our streets" with live to Spain, cheers to the Legion, the Civil Guard, the king and the National Police.
The Legion parade has led to the first exchange of shouts before 11:30 am, at which time the corporation under the clubs that marks the beginning of this religious civic party starts from the Town Hall.
The act has had a strong security device formed by local police, National Police agents and riot police at a party that has ended without incident despite the occasional threat in one of the corners of the square, where supporters and Detractors of this tradition.
The entourage, dressed in period costumes of the last six centuries, has been directed together with councilors and representatives of other administrations to the Royal Chapel, where the Catholic Monarchs lie, to make a floral offering.
During the religious celebration, which this year has not officiated the archbishop of Granada, Francisco Martínez, in the Plaza del Carmen have contrasted the patriotic songs with those of the Andalusian Nation, in support and against the Legion, respectively, and the songs of "Granada Christian and never Muslim "in front of" They were not blackberries, they were grenadines. "
The mayor of Granada, Luis Salvador, has stressed that Granada has responded to the tradition and has made, one more year, the Toma shine and has asked the detractors of the party to leave the square so as not to cloud.
After the interpretation of the hymns of Granada, Andalusia and Spain, the councilor Jacobo Calvo Ramos has trembled the banner and from the balcony he has repeated three times and as the tradition marks the "Granada", to which the attendees have also responded the traditional " What?".
The ceremony has been closed repeating the legend: "Granada, Granada, Granada, for the unfinished Kings of Spain Mr. Fernando V of Aragon and Mrs. Isabel I of Castile. Long live Spain. Long live the King. Long live Andalusia. Long live Granada".
The event was attended, among others, the councilors of the PP, Vox, its secretary general, Javier Ortega Smith, Citizens and PSOE, with the absence of the representatives of IU-Podemos.
The Granada Open Platform has held an alternative event in which it has lamented an event that has been labeled as totalitarian and that it sees as a "hangover" from the past.
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