The PSC and the independence movement prevent an institutional declaration of support for the two civil guards murdered in Barbate

Cristina Rubio Barcelona

Barcelona

Updated Tuesday, February 13, 2024-12:51

The

PSC

, the independence movement and the Commons have prevented the success of an institutional declaration in

Parliament

of support for the two civil guards murdered in

Barbate

by a drug boat.

Specifically, the socialists have not signed two texts presented by Vox and Cs respectively - and supported by the PP - to condemn the event in Cádiz and show the support of the Chamber for the Benemérita. Junts, ERC, the CUP and the Commons have not joined either. "We could expect it from the independence movement, what from the PSC is much more serious," denounced the CS spokesperson, Anna Grau, at a press conference.

Specifically, the orange party's text "roundly condemned the murder of the civil guards Miguel Ángel González Gómez and David Perez Garacel on February 9 in Barbate"; He showed his support for the families and the Benemérita body; and requested "that both the Ministry of the Interior and the Department of the Interior of the Generalitat of Catalonia provide the necessary means to the security forces and bodies that depend on them - Civil Guard, National Police Corps and Mossos d'Esquadra - to who can carry out their work against criminal drug gangs in conditions of ensuring their physical integrity, with all the institutional support for them in case they have to use force to arrest them and prevent their criminal actions."

The proposal for an institutional declaration has not been signed by the independence movement or the PSC. "We did not expect it to be easy to approve, that's why we measured it to the millimeter," defended Anna Grau, later regretting that "it did not have enough support" and did not prosper.

The controversy has broken out at the weekly meeting of the board of spokespersons of the Catalan Chamber, with the presence of leaders of all parliamentary groups. There, Cs and Vox have come with two proposals for an institutional declaration for the Parliament to condemn the Barbate murders and support the Civil Guard.

The texts have not been supported by the independence bloc or the socialists. It was then that Ciudadanos proposed holding at least a minute of silence in the plenary session of the Chamber that begins this afternoon. The independence movement has rejected it and the PSC has not spoken out, which has prevented the initiative from succeeding.

For its part, the PSC denounces "an "instrumentalization" of what happened, points out that "it is false" that it voted against anything "because at no time was anything voted" and recalls that "there is a stipulated institutional criterion for making minutes of silence in Parliament". Illa's party also reiterates its support "for the victims and their families," they add from the party.