Vox vetoes a minute of silence for Maricarmen in Parliament: "It is a 'performance' of the left"

PalmaNew clash at the Parliament plenary session over the case of Maricarmen, the evicted woman who led the Spanish government to push for two housing decrees and who died in the hospital a week ago after being evicted from her home at 87 years old. The President of the Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox), rejected the PSIB's request to hold a minute of silence in her memory, alleging that there was no consensus among the groups to do so. What is curious, however, is that he did not even consult the groups before making this statement.

After the spokesperson for MÉS per Mallorca, Lluís Apesteguia, reproached him for skipping this step, he proceeded to ask the question to each group. The left as a bloc showed their support, but when it was Vox's turn, Manuela Cañadas voted against it. She considered the proposal "an absurd 'performance' by the left" and said that "there are many Maricarmens in Spain that they have not cared about."

The PP merely said that "it is evident that there is no unanimity and there will be no minute of silence." "From the PP we would like to take the opportunity to express our respect for the thousands of people evicted since Pedro Sánchez has been governing," she said, and conveyed her condolences to the family and friends of Maricarmen. Nevertheless, PSIB deputy Carol Marquès took advantage of the first question of the control session to the Government to observe a minute of silence for Maricarmen, which the entire left joined.

Precisely this Tuesday, the general secretary of the Insular Union of Mallorca of CCOO, Yolanda Clavo, presented the Social Observatory of older women, edited in collaboration with the First of May Foundation, which details the "serious difficulties" of the elderly to live in the Islands. As Europa Press reports, for a pensioner with an average pension of 1,442 euros, rent is "practically impossible." For this reason, there are more and more elderly people forced to share an apartment, not with their relatives, but with other elderly people, who also "cannot afford the luxury" of paying rent with their pension.