The deputy of the Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG) in Congress, Néstor Rego, has described as “absolutely unjustifiable” the police charges carried out during the day of an electoral strike, although he maintains that at this time it is not appropriate to demand the resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska.
“Honestly, I don’t know if it makes much sense to ask for more ministers’ resignations at this point, less than 20 days before the elections,” Rego said in statements to journalists at the end of the meeting of the Diputación Permanente.
The nationalist leader has firmly criticized the police intervention and has emphasized that “it’s not the first time” that actions of this kind have been recorded, referring in particular to the charges that occurred recently at a “peaceful” antifascist demonstration in A Coruña.
“What we are demanding is that this Government, which claims to be the most progressive in history, stop curtailing freedom of expression and of assembly,” he said. “It can’t be that whoever has the legal obligation to protect rights is precisely the one violating them, particularly the right to assembly.”
At the same time, the BNG has reiterated its demand that “once and for all” the so-called ‘Ley Mordaza’ be repealed, passed thanks to the absolute majority of the Executive of Mariano Rajoy, since, as he has denounced, it continues to be used as “a control weapon” against mobilizations and social protest. “And this is not compatible with democracy, not even with a Government that says it is progressive,” he insisted.