Ribera maintains that what happened in Brazil would be a "rebellion" in Spain and asks Gamarra to stop making "jokes"

He criticizes that there is no clear support for Lula da Silva "by a good part of the parties represented in Congress" Spanish

MADRID, 9 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has considered this Monday that the assault that occurred in Brazil on institutions by supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro would be punished as a rebellion in Spain, at the same time that she has asked the secretary General of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, stop making jokes, making "mofas" and "science fiction".

"There is not the slightest doubt: it would be an attitude that can be defined as the crime of rebellion, a violent attack against the constitutional order," Ribera described in an interview with Antena 3, collected by Europa Press, when asked how they would be sentenced in Spain these acts after the crime of sedition has been eliminated from the Penal Code.

Ribera has seen "tremendous" that the spokesperson for the PP in Congress "has not condemned what has happened and has allowed herself to make that type of joke, a mockery", instead of going out in "defense of the constitutional order in Brazil and in Spain", he criticized.

In addition, the third vice president has lacked "direct and forceful support" for the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, "from a good part of the parties with democratic representation in the Spanish Congress", as well as "clarity". in the messages, since it is important to "always take care" of the "respectful operation" of the institutions in democracy.

For Ribera, we must support "without fissures" and "without doubts" the democracy of any country, and in particular of a "brother" like Brazil, which has just elected president and taken office. "You cannot consent to this type of action against democratic institutions, probably the result of months, years, degradation and lack of respect for institutional life", he has censured him.

The Minister for Ecological Transition has indicated that the PSOE, when it was in opposition, fully supported the application of article 155 of the Constitution in Catalonia by the Government of Mariano Rajoy, because "all ideas are defensible, as long as they are made respecting the norms and institutions".

And he stressed that it is not convenient "to make science fiction looking towards the past or the future, but to ensure coexistence among all and respect for democratic institutions", whether in Spain or in any other country, in reference to Gamarra, that the On Sunday, citing a 'tweet' from the President of the Government, he affirmed that with Pedro Sánchez something like that of Brazil would be a "simple public disorder".