The government launched an attack against the president of the Episcopal Conference, Luis Argüello, after he said this in an interview with La Vanguardia: “We must move on to a question of confidence, a motion of censure or elections”. The first person to criticize him was the president himself, during an electoral rally in Cáceres. A few hours later, the Executive transmitted a more formal protest, through a letter from the Minister of Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, in which he urged: “I expressly ask you not to break your political neutrality and to act with respect for democracy and the government.”
Bolaños recalls that this is the second time in several months that the president of the bishops has called for the end of the legislature. The previous one, last June, gave rise to another letter from the minister on behalf of the government. In the letter sent this Sunday, the minister expresses his uneasiness because Argüello deplores in the aforementioned interview that, “to his great regret”, the relations of the Spanish Church and the Sánchez Executive are focused on the future of the Cuelgamuros Valley and on the abuses of Catholic monks against minors.
Bolaños criticizes the president of the Epicopal Conference for using the name Valle de los Caídos, instead of Cualgamuros, even though this Francoist name was banned by the law of Democratic Memory. He ends with great harshness: “From his statements, he seems to deduce that he would prefer that his interlocutor be involved in different political forces (Vox and PP), knowing that a right-wing and far-right government, which publicly defended the permanence of the remains of Francisco Franco in a basilica and did not show the slightest interest in the victims of abuse, would be more comprehensive than the positions of your organization. » Finally, he emphasizes that your relationship with the Government is guided by a “constructive spirit” and “respects all the sensitivities that exist in our country”. Before the letter, Bolaños had published a message on the social network
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