Vox deputies support the King's gesture before Bolívar's sword: "It would still be stained with Spanish blood"

MADRID, 9 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Several Vox deputies have expressed their support on social networks for King Felipe VI's decision to remain seated at the passing of Simón Bolívar's sword during Gustavo Petro's inauguration as president of Colombia.

"It would still be stained with Spanish blood," the Vox deputy for Madrid and spokesman for Health, Juan Luis Steegmann, has censored on Twitter, after the King's gesture has been criticized by Podemos and pro-independence politicians.

In the opinion of this parliamentarian, the reaction to the sword of the so-called 'Libertador' in the war of independence against Spain is only a matter of having "good eyesight" or "memory." The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Víctor González, recalls the same thing, assuring that Bolívar issued a decree that "meant the genocide of those Spaniards, indigenous, mestizo or Creole or whatever they were that did not want to join the insurgents."

Víctor González thus thanks Felipe VI for his reaction, as does the deputy Víctor Sánchez del Real, who maintains that the sword is not one of the national symbols of Colombia, before which the King did "show himself with respect".

"Getting up before an object, however historical it may be, not even jokingly, as if they took the chair out of the Muisca zipazaques. Very curious but nothing more," says Sánchez del Real.

For his part, the deputy Ricardo Chamorro directs his criticism against Podemos, whose leaders he calls "hypocrites" for "attacking" Spanish sovereignty "inside and outside" Spain, being "mute" in the face of the change in position of the Sahara or the increase in the Defense budget and instead "attack the King".