Anger in the Extremadura Assembly in Gallardo’s debut: « They have caught him, but welcome to the temple of the word » | Spain

María Guardiola arrives smiling at her white seat in the Assembly of Extremadura. Greet your own as if I hadn’t seen them for years. Suddenly, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, the regional socialist leader investigated for influences and prevarication for an assumption Labor plug case to Pedro Sánchez’s brother In 2016 during his stage at the head of the Diputación de Badajoz after a Vox complaint and the Ultra organization will hear last year, he approaches the President Extremadura. Guardiola, aware of expectation, decides to greet other popular deputies. It makes the socialist leader wait in view of all. Gallardo, surrounded by cameras, seeks the image of institutional greeting on the day of his inauguration of the deputy act, which he has now asked, months after leading the party and only a few hours before the judge opens oral trial for the judicial case in which he is immersed, An internal movement that has received many socialist criticisms because it implies the aforementation to be tried by the Superior Court of the region instead of the ordinary ones – such as this case – due to their public or position. To make matters worse, Gallardo, after now aging as a deputy – he had to give up a partner and four who were on the list – has proposed to Guardiola to withdraw the aforementioned of all the deputies of Extremadura. Gallardo, smiling, somewhat nervous – almost wrong about the door when entering the assembly – has finally extended the hand to Guardiola after waiting for a few seconds:

–Good days, president.

– Good days, Miguel Ángel.

The greeting, cold, serious, according to the times that Extremadura’s policy is going through, it has been the advance of the first face between the two most important figures of the political landscape of Cáceres and Badajoz. « He lay down being the questioned regional secretary, » said Guardiola, « and this Thursday he gets up as Martin Luther King. He is not a victim of anything. They have caught him. He is not the most honorable, but welcome to the temple of the word. Is here as an express express. Do not ask me to enter the delirium that you have mounted. Excuses, scoundrel, when was the last time he told the truth?

Extremadura’s policy is not used to occupying news. Gallardo has caused the national political focus to be installed in Mérida. So much so, that Parliament has had to enable another room for the media. « I have come to stay, to fight, » said the socialist leader in his first intervention. « False complaints paid with public money are not going to take us away. » The speech, read, has only been applauded once by his own, and without much effusivity. Gallardo has exhausted his time in his first intervention and has not had a replica turn.

The Gallardo movement has generated many internal criticisms in the PSOE Extremadura. His jump to the camera is produced by an express request of the party, according to several of them. « We all told him to face, » says the mayor of Mérida, Antonio Rodríguez Osuna, one of the most faithful to Gallardo in the region. « We saw that the judicial case was dilated … it may sound rare, in the sense that one thing said and has done another. But the times of the PSOE are not the times of justice. »

The reality is that Gallardo also said that he was not going to go to the assembly to strengthen himself and, now, he has done the opposite. The movement has generated internal criticism, but very few want to express them with name and surname. « Certainly, I am worried, » says the president of the Diputación de Cáceres, Miguel Ángel Morales. « I hope you last the common sense. » Morales learned from the press of the Gallardo Movement. Both Morales and Mayor Osuna have attended Parliament this Thursday to listen to the voices of their leader. Moreover, even former president Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra has gone to defend Gallardo with an article In his blog Just a few days ago: « Law fraud? »

This Thursday, if there is an unwritten law throughout Parliament, it has broken in Extremadura. When a deputy collects the act, the rest, regardless of political color, applaud, as a species democratic symbol. After all, it is simply that. Not today. The four Vox deputies have risen from their seats to the order of their spokesman and leader, Ángel Pelayo Gordillo: « Let’s go. » And they have left for a few minutes of the hemicycle. The 28 PP deputies have been silent, sitting. And the 28 of the PSOE have applauded standing, but not with much care.

Today, with the presence of Gallardo, Two years of the new political cycle in Extremadura are completed. Especially for Guardiola, who jumped to national politics for criticizing Vox and integrating it immediately later. « I am not going to give councils. (…) We will go to elections, if you have to go. (…) I can not let those who deny the sexist violence in my government, to whom they use the fat line, to whom they are dehumanizing immigrants, and those who deploy a canvas and throw the lgtbi flag into a paper. » No member of the PP, neither autonomic nor national, had been with such fierceness against VOX. Guardiola was convinced. It lasted seven days.

He still rumbles his investiture speech in the Assembly where, knowing that he had breached his word, he quoted his phrase from the journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales in his book on the bullfighter Juan Belmonte: « On the big occasions I always say something inconvenient. » And when she swore the position as president, the most important day of her political career, she released: « My principles are the same. » Now, without the VOX counselor in the Government – he did not comply with the order of Santiago Abascal to leave all the regional governments and Guardiola kept him – the PP governs alone with the Vox crutch. In fact, although it does not have budgets, this Thursday the Democratic Memory Law will be repealed.