The Junts deputy claims to be the victim of a “lynching” after it was revealed that he scolded the FAQS worker
ERC, PSC, CUP and ‘comuns’ demand that Laura Borràs open a procedure to investigate whether the parliamentarian has infringed the Parliament’s code of conduct
The deputy of Junts, Francesco de Dalmases, He finally broke his silence publicly this Thursday after it was revealed that he scolded a TV-3 journalist after the interview with the president of Parliament, Laura Borras, on July 9 in the “Frequently Asked Questions-FAQS” program. According to the witnesses’ version, Dalmases grabbed a journalist from the program by the wrist and took her to the guest dressing room to scold her, beating the furniture and the walls, for the questions about corruption that Borràs had been asked in the interview. one step away from sitting on the bench for allegedly having divided contracts from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes to benefit a friend of his.
“I had one heated discussion with a person I love and I value the journalism that we have known each other for more than 10 years, we treat each other and we collaborate”, he snapped in the hemicycle, after the deputy of Cs Nacho Martin Blanco accused him of being a “thug” during the session. “Precisely for this reason I said that it had to be treated as a discussion strictly about the journalistic perspective and, precisely for this, and in order not to confuse, I apologized to anyone who might have felt offended,” he continued. All this after saying that he has been living for three days “in a circus that is evolving towards a lynching that is difficult to justify.”
Dalmases has insisted that he is “temporarily” stepping down from the parliamentary commission on the CCMA, where he acts as spokesperson for Junts, and that he has asked his party to open an information file to clarify what happened. “I am very sorry that you have to suffer this defamation and without having been able to offer the version of what happened,” he snapped, although he has not wanted to break the silence until now since he could have summoned the media when the case broke out or have asked for his Voluntary appearance in commission.
“I am deeply sorry, we will all leave this parliament one day or another and only our reputation will remain. If I have ever had a passion, it is for the press, for press freedom, for journalism and for good journalism,” he said. asserted.
The groups ask Borràs to investigate
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Four parliamentary groups –PSC, ERC, CUP and ‘commons’– They have sent a letter to the president in which they ask her to open a procedure to determine if the Junts deputy has violated the Parliament’s code of conduct and urge her to “take the pertinent actions in the event that it is confirmed that he has been”.
“We fully assume the demand for investigation, taking into account that, in addition, other journalists from various media outlets have described similar events. It is our responsibility and also our obligation to guarantee the free exercise of the right to information and freedom of the press,” they say in the statement. missive.