The PSOE has denounced the double standards of the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party, after they brought to the plenary session a proposal to support an insular Pact against hate speech and to promote the visibility of the collective, which could not be approved as an institutional declaration due to Vox's refusal to accept its content.
The Councilor of the Socialist Group, Alberto Aguiar, has denounced that CC and PP have brought to the plenary session “an agreement against hate crimes that VOX blocks, but they govern with them in Teguise”.
“It is at least opportunistic. It has been shameful to see the unsustainable contradictions of the president of the Cabildo whose party promotes a loudspeaker to the extreme right in Lanzarote. We must not forget that wherever the extreme right governs, there have already been setbacks in social advances that affect the LGTBIQ+ community, issues that reaffirm the need for the fight and unity to banish hate speech is now more important than ever since the ultra-right has a voice and governs and takes away what has cost us so much to achieve as a society,” Aguiar pointed out.
During his speech, the socialist councilor wanted to reaffirm the unwavering commitment of the PSOE to the rights and dignity of the LGBTIQ+ collective. This is what he stated in a speech during the plenary session of the Cabildo of Lanzarote in which he recognized the invaluable work carried out by the associative network that fights for the rights and dignity of the LGTBIQ+ community.
“On the island, collectives such as Lánzate and all those who fight for the community have carried out the necessary training and educational work to prevent hate crimes, whose growth of 30% during 2023 should concern and occupy us,” he added.
“Despite the fact that Spain is a leader in the protection of the rights of the LGTBI community and has stood out for advances such as equal marriage, the Zerolo Law and the trans law, the LGTBIQ+ community continues to be persecuted and vulnerable,” Alberto Aguiar stressed.
“There is still much to fight for when the Popular Party continues to associate homosexuality and sexual diversity with alcohol and having unprotected sex or when VOX compares a hotline for hate crimes with a line for 'gentlemen with mustaches who smoke'. It is Dantean that these ways of thinking receive oxygen balloons to govern and that on top of that they do not blush maintaining a double discourse,” concluded the socialist councilor.
