Efe Palencia

Palencia

Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-20:42

The Vox Municipal Group in the Palencia City Council, made up of three councilors,

has expelled councilor Ricardo Carrancio

, convicted of insulting and hitting a person with a disability, whom he referred to as "fucking lame", for lack of loyalty, deception and betrayal of the group.

"He deserves to leave unworthily because he has behaved unworthily

," the spokesperson for the Vox Municipal Group in the Palencia City Council, Sonia Lalanda, told EFE, who confirmed that at the end of the municipal plenary session this Thursday her group has decided to expel him.

Lalanda has assured that the attitude of Ricardo Carrancio, councilor and provincial deputy, during this Thursday's plenary session has been

"regrettable and unpresentable

."

The plenary session has approved, with the votes in favor of the PSOE and IU- Podemos, and the abstention of the PP and Vox, the motion presented by Izquierda Unida- Podemos to request the

disapproval and resignation of the Vox councilor

Ricardo Carrancio, convicted of the Investigative Court Number 5 of Palencia for a crime of mistreatment of work.

The events occurred in April 2023 when Ricardo Carrancio, who was not yet a councilor or provincial deputy, was

walking with his dog

in a park in Palencia, when he rebuked a man with a disability and reduced mobility for having his dog loose, telling him that He was a

"fucking lame" and hitting him at chest level

with his hand.

The sentence, which can be appealed, establishes that Carrancio had acted

upset or angry

because the man was carrying his dog without leashing, that he hit him with his hand without causing injury and that he referred to him as

"lame." the balls"

.

The motion has gone ahead with the votes in favor of the government team (PSOE and IU- Podemos) and the abstention of the PP and Vox, a group to which the failed councilor who has refused to

hand in

his minutes as a councilor and provincial deputy belongs.

"If I handed over my minutes

I would be giving consent

to acts that I did not commit and that I myself disapprove," he explained during the plenary session.

Carrancio recalled that he is a Vox councilor not affiliated with the party and has considered the comments of the Vox spokesperson in the City Council, Sonia Lalanda, "especially burdensome", whom he has

accused of pursuing her

personal interests at the expense of his own.

During the plenary session, Sonia Lalanda expressed her disappointment, stating that Carrancio has

put Vox in a very unpleasant situation

, and has asked him to present his resignation and leave the Municipal Group to avoid "the indignity of having to be expelled."

Lalanda has accused him of "disloyalty, deception, instrumentalization of the Vox municipal group, betrayal and lack of camaraderie", and has asked him to immediately leave the Vox Municipal Group, appealing to his conscience and honor and

ensuring that he does not meet the minimum required

to represent citizens.

Given his refusal to renounce his position as councilor in the City Council and the attitude he has had throughout the legislature with his two group mates, finally, upon leaving the plenary session, they agreed to expel him, as Sonia Lalanda confirmed to EFE.

However, Vox cannot

expel Carrancio from the party because he is not a member

and is not subject to the Party's Guarantees Committee nor can he be sanctioned.

During his speech in the plenary session, Carrancio, before being expelled from the Vox municipal group, warned that "if he is not accompanied,

he will continue as an independent councilor

, not affiliated with any party."

He has also assured that, even though he abides by the sentence, he categorically rejects its ruling because

he has "never" uttered "defamatory expressions

against anyone, least of all against a disabled person."

He has also indicated that he has been publicly defamed with a clear intention to harm him with a judicial matter that has not been finalized,

because the sentence referred to is not final

, it can be appealed, and he judges an action classified as minor for an event. which was prior to his appointment as councilor and deputy in Palencia.