The only Vox councilor in the Tías City Council, María Esther Tamargo, has requested the municipal government to remove the LGBTIQ+ symbology that hangs from the consistory on the occasion of the International Pride Day that will take place on June 28.
Esther Tamargo, also a candidate of the far-right formation for the Senate for Lanzarote, considers that its use is "excluding and collectivist." In this line, she urges the City Council to "remove said symbology from the public space of common use in any of its formats (banners, painting, lights, etc.)".
In a letter presented to the Tías City Council to which La Voz has had access, the Vox councilor considers the rainbow flag as "a weapon" created to throw it against others and requests to "use only symbols that represent the entire citizenry".
In addition, she insists that the flag is not a "valid legal" symbol, but "partial and electoralist." At the same time, she defends that "it is not representative of all citizens who do not belong to this group or do not align with said option".
To make this request, she relies on a resolution of the Supreme Court of May 26, 2020, in which the removal of a Canarian independence flag, placed in the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, was endorsed.
The far-right candidate insists that the flag "does not even represent homosexual people, many of whom refuse to be collectivized."
Likewise, she exalts that the use of the flag in support of people who belong to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer collective "violates the principles of objectivity and institutional neutrality."
Esther Tamargo urges the use of the Spanish flag: "The national flag represents the national community and equality among all Spaniards without distinction by [...] sexual orientation."
After that, she points out that "against these values of agreement and equality among Spaniards, certain parties, lobbies and institutions try to impose an artificial division of society into groups with exclusive needs and problems, which they victimize in order to then stand as their defenders against an alleged oppressive majority."
The use of unofficial flags outside buildings and public spaces is not "compatible with the current constitutional and legal framework." She also insists that making use of the rainbow flag is incompatible with "the duty of objectivity and neutrality of Public Administrations".
"In all political parties there are people of different sexual orientations, homosexual or heterosexual. But sexual condition should not have any relation with political decision-making." Tamargo insists that "any Spaniard" can carry or display on their balcony the flags with which they identify.
