• Politics A Vox deputy is expelled from the Plenary of Congress for calling a socialist a "witch" and refuses to leave

The president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, has read the booklet to the deputies and has announced that she will not tolerate any more "offenses" after the insults and the incident carried out by Vox last week, when

José María Sánchez

called a "witch" a PSOE deputy and, later, when he was expelled, he refused to comply with the order and stayed in his seat.

At the beginning of this week's Plenary, Batet made a speech to recall the limits of freedom of expression, implying that the Presidency of Congress will act more forcefully against disrespect, as several parliamentary groups have been claiming , because one of its functions is to defend the "decorum" and "dignity" of Parliament.

"For that, I have no more tucked away than to earnestly request more respect and more education when speaking," he emphasized.

"From the utmost impartiality in the exercise of my functions, I tell you that I will not be neutral in the defense of this Parliament, in the defense of the institutions and in the defense of democracy," he has warned about the attitude that he will keep in plenary sessions.

The

PSOE

had proposed in the

Table of Congress to

be more firm when there are attacks on other deputies or acts of insubordination, while

Unidos Podemos

had even demanded that a deputy who overreaches to cut off "that the extreme right deploys can be suspended for a time. his bullying. "

For Batet, the use of freedom of expression has ended up being used in an "inappropriate" way to project "insults" and "offenses against people and institutions."

"Insults and offenses must be left out of this House," he claimed.

The president of Congress has asked for a reflection in this regard and the image that is being projected to the public.

"I hope you think, every time you speak, that you want to respect yourself and others. Parliamentary harshness is perfectly compatible with good education and that parliamentary harshness does not have to lead to offense."

Batet reprimanded Espinosa in his office

When the incident with the Vox deputy José María Sánchez happened, Batet called the party spokesman,

Iván Espinosa de los Monteros

,

to his office

, where he reprimanded him for the attitude of his deputy and his contempt for the Presidency when he refused to obey. the expulsion order.

Today in his interpellation to all the deputies, he has extended the message that he conveyed to him: the decisions of the Presidency "must be respected."

Asked again about the incident at a press conference, Espinosa de los Monteros has preferred to charge the inks against the then circumstantially acting president,

Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez de Celis

, and who was the one who tried to expel Sánchez.

The Vox spokesman has said that all the incidents in this legislature have been "always with the same person", whom he sees as "unproportional" and somewhat "sectarian", while with Batet "nothing has ever happened."

Thus, he has detailed that he has documented all the times that Gómez de Celis has acted against Vox, either to interrupt the speaker or to apply the regulation "erroneously", as he said happened the other day.

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