Podemos has decided to contribute to the climate of tension that has led to attacks on statues of Christopher Columbus in the United States, taking advantage of anti-racist protests over the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of a police officer.

The president of the commons in the Parliament, Jessica Albiach , defended on Saturday that removing the statue of Columbus from Barcelona "would be a good measure" so that the city does not maintain its "recognition of a figure that made possible the colonization of some territories with genocide ». "He does not represent me, like Felipe VI," snapped the leader of the Catalan brand of Podemos, extending her attack on the King.

Albiach defended that Spain suffers from the same problem of "racism" as the United States. An "institutional racism protected by the immigration law," he said. The barrage of criticism of the head of the ranks of the commons was immediate and Albiach was forced to rectify. Instead of removing the statue, it would be better to keep it and "contextualize it," clarified the representative of Podemos in Catalonia without clarifying what exactly that contextualization of the monument would consist of.

250 people demonstrate in front of the monument

On Sunday, after Albiach's words, some 250 people demonstrated in Barcelona asking for the removal of the Columbus statue. Participants in the march - which had not been reported to the police - carried signs against the permanence of the monument, before which they concentrated in protest without causing damage.

The statue - 57 meters high - was inaugurated on June 1, 1888 on the occasion of the Universal Exposition in Barcelona and its removal was recently proposed by the CUP. The radical leftist independence formation promoted two attempts in the plenary session of the Barcelona City Council in 2016 and 2018, but none succeeded.

Yes, Mayor Ada Colau agreed to remove the statue of Antonio López after embracing the historical revision and identifying the first Marquis of Comillas as a slaver, erasing his legacy as a businessman and patron. The proposal also came from the CUP and Mayor Colau adopted it as her own and executed it in March 2018.

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