After the Provincial Court of Palma dismissed his appeal, the Speaker of the Balearic Islands Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne (Vox), will finally have to go to trial accused of a hate crime. The events that led to this unusual situation occurred almost a year ago, on June 18th, in the same Balearic Parliament, when Le Senne lost his temper with two Socialist deputies (and members of the Parliament's board) and tore up a photo one of them had attached to her laptop, with the laptop, with the laptop, of the murdered by fascists on Twelfth Night in 1937. This happened during the session during which the repeal of the Historical Memory Law was being debated, at the request of Vox. The tearing down of Le Senne sparked a strong public outcry, and the speaker of the Balearic Parliament will ultimately have to answer to the various lawsuits filed by memorial organizations such as Memoria de Mallorca, Aurora Picornell's family, the citizen group Estimada Aurora, and the Communist Party.
In the Balearic Islands, we will once again be pioneers: having the speaker of a Parliament answer for a hate crime is a situation as shameful as it is, until now, unprecedented. But it is likely to become a common occurrence if the reconquest of Spain (as they call it) by the PP and Vox continues to advance. Furthermore, these people tend to handle euphoria poorly. Now they are jubilant because they are convinced that the Civil Guard will help them finish off the traitor in Spain, Perrosanxe, and the festive atmosphere in the barracks could lead them to commit any excess.
The confirmation of the trial against Le Senne comes at a time when the two parties of the Spanish ultra-nationalist right have renewed their alliance, and have done so by approving (with a landslide victory for Vox over the PP) the budgets of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Balearic Government. The president of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, maintains that the PP has reached this agreement without renouncing any of its principles, and this will be true, because they don't have any, and we won't repeat Groucho Marx's joke about it now. After all, it was they—Prohens and the PP—who kept Le Senne in the presidency of Parliament, even when he was already under investigation, even despite the indignity of his gesture, which in a healthy democracy should have forced his resignation or dismissal.
The more the PP obsesses over competing with Vox, the more it becomes a prisoner of its hate speech. The hatred these people profess for the citizens of the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community, and Catalonia is perfectly comparable to what the Falangists of ninety years ago exuded. In fact, their message is always the same: we would commit the same crimes again right now, we would do it to them again right now. Desperate to reach the Moncloa, the PP embraces and embraces this message. In Mallorca and everywhere.
