Santiago Abascal, leader of the far-right VOX and personal friend of President Javier Milei, used the terms “sudaca” and “tucumano” as disqualifiers and insults. against a Spanish legislator who during his speech had criticized the conservative parties and even the Argentine president.
The deliberate act of xenophobia occurred days ago but became known in the last few hours after the Spanish press echoed the public complaints made by socialist deputies and of the tenor of the shouts that Abascal directed from his bench in the Parliament of that country.
“Traitor”, “corrupt”, “coward”, “fool”, “hypocrite”, “sellout”, “cynical”, “chapote”, “sudaca” and “tucumán” were the insults that, faithful to the Milei styleAbascal launched during a session against Gerardo Pisarello, a Spanish legislator of Argentine origin.
He did so at a time when the amnesty promoted by the government of Pedro Sánchez for the Catalan leaders who had led the independence attempt of that region against Spain.
“They are fanatical right-wingers”
Pisarello, who was vice mayor of Barcelona During the government of Ada Colau, he defended this initiative, questioned the right-wing parties that opposed it and even criticized the international exponents of that space, including Milei.
“They are fanatical right-wing groups capable of elevating deranged characters like Milei, an admirer of Mussolini like Meloni and even a criminal like Netanyahu with the corpses of the boys and girls of Rafah still warm”he said in his speech.
It was not the only criticism he launched at the right-wing forces. He accused them of putting pressure on the judiciary, the press, and the opponents; to repress protests, and to “subsidize media and pseudo-journalists,” and to persecute migrants and LGTBI people, among other issues.
Tucumán
Pisarello’s speech in plenary session received standing applause, but after that the insults arose that unleashed the scandal. Abascal – who apparently learned from his friend Javier Milei – exploded in anger with a series of insults against the Spanish deputy born in the Argentine province of Tucumán.
He tried it “traitors” for having removed the Spanish flag from the Catalan government palace and continued with a long list that included the term “sudaca”, a discriminatory classic used against Latin Americans.
But The novelty was the demonym “tucumán” as an addition to the xenophobic expressions that are characterized by highlighting nationality as a sign of contempt.
Pisarello is, in fact, from Tucumán. Nation in that province after his Andalusian grandparents settled there at the beginning of the last century. His father was kidnapped during the de facto government of Domingo Bussi, the Tucumán repressor who years later became a national deputy and employer of Javier Milei.as one of his main advisors in the Lower House.
Currently, the Argentine-Spanish deputy lives in Barcelona and is a legislator for the region of Catalonia. At the end of the session he echoed the insults he received from the VOX leader: “They try to cover with the flag the interests they defend, which are the interests of the most powerful and always against the weakest.”
“I feel proudly the grandson of Andalusian republicans, proudly Catalan, proudly Latin American, and that is what I reminded Mr. Abascal”he sentenced.
