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Row in Spain’s Congress over ‘fascism’ accusations

Catalan MP expelled from chamber after confrontation with Spanish foreign minister

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21 November 2018 11:41 AM
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ACN | Barcelona

The speaker of the Spanish Congress, Ana Pastor, expelled a pro-independence MP from the chamber on Wednesday after a confrontation between him and Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell.
The row came after days of rising tension in the Spanish parliament between anti-independence and pro-independence groups, but also between left and right wing parties. The use of words such as “coup d’état” or “fascist” and mutual accusations of being anti-democratic had become persistent.
Catalan MP Gabriel Rufián started his remarks by saying his parliamentary group, pro-independence ERC, will define anyone calling them “participants of a coup d’état” as “fascist.”
Borrell thought Rufián had called him a “racist” and urged the speaker to delete the insults from the minutes of the session. The speaker said she would comment on that afterwards but let the Catalan MP go ahead.
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