The Constitutional Commission of Congress, with the vote against Vox and abstention from Citizens, has given this Thursday its support to the efforts being made by the A Coruña City Council to get the Cornide House, in the hands of the family of dictator Francisco Franco, is returned to the consistory.
The initiative, promoted by the deputy of Galicia in Common, Antón Gómez Reino, has gone ahead with the support of all the groups, except that of Santiago Abascal, whose deputy Jose Maria Garcia Sanchez has harshly disqualified the initiative, and that of Miguel Gutierrez, from Ciudadanos, who has opted for abstention.
Specifically, the approved text is the following: “The Congress of Deputies urges the Government to support the initiatives taken by the City Council of A Coruña in order to recover the Casa Cornide for public heritage”.
During the defense of his initiative, Gómez Reino has criticized the “looting of the Franco” and has stressed that the Casa Cornide must be, like the Pazo de Meirás, returned to the public heritage for its enjoyment by the citizens, thesis that has supported without putting any hits the spokesmen of PSOE, Bildu and ERC.
“Rotten lies”
From the PP, Vicente Mateu has given its support to the text as the ‘popular’ Galicians did in the autonomous Parliament with a similar initiative, although it has warned that Podemos is “a threat to democratic coexistence.”
But the most critical has been the representative of Vox, who has called Podemos a “totalitarian force” with “outdated Marxist-Leninist ideas” and who has labeled the initiative “crazy” and Gómez Reino as “ignorant”.
“They act from bad faith and telling rotten lies,” he said, stressing to the deputy of Galicia in Common that Justice has partially upheld an appeal by the Franco family in the dispute over the Pazo de Meirás and it has forced to reimburse them “all the necessary and useful expenses” of that palace.
Hitting a ghost
For his part, Miguel Gutiérrez, from Ciudadanos, has indicated that the issue of the return of the Casa Cornide “is already partially resolved” after the precedent of Meirás and that his training is in favor of recovering “all looted assets.”
Of course, he has asked United We can present initiatives on matters that are more necessary for citizens and to stop “beating up a ghost”, in reference to the dictator.
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