A Secretariat report supports the withdrawal of the LGTBI+ flag from the Córdoba plenary sessionAJ GONZÁLEZ
A report drafted, at the request of the Mayor’s Office of the City Council of Córdoba, by the general secretary of the institution, Valeriano Lavela, endorses the withdrawal ofthe LGTBI+ flag, which councilor Antonio Hurtado had placed on the socialist bench of the Plenary of the City Council.
As stated in the document, to which Diario CÓRDOBA has had access, a request has been received from the Presidency of the Corporation that “issue a legal report with respect to the legal prohibition or not that certain symbols can be displayed in the Plenary Hall other than or different from those that can be used and used with the attire or personal clothing.”
The text written by the secretary refers to different judicial resolutions to support its conclusion, which is that “They may not be waved or placedinside of plenary hall of the most excellent City Council of Córdoba, Even if it is the bench or seats of a certain municipal political group or a certain capitular, none flag, banner, insignia or different symbology to the one corresponding to the Spanish nation, to the flag corresponding to the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, to the flag corresponding to the European Union, not even the placement of the identifying flag of the LGTBIQ+”.
In the opinion of the official, it is a different question “and would not violate current regulations in the matter referred to in this opinion, which a certain capitular may incorporate clothing or attire that he wears certain accessories during his attendance at a given plenary session (), provided that they are not discriminatory or offensive to constitutional rights and freedoms.”
One of the rulings that support the assessment of the Córdoba secretary is that of the third chamber of the Administrative Litigation of the Supreme Court, dated May 26, 2020, in which it establishes as a doctrine that “it is not compatible with the constitutional and legal framework current, and in particular, with the duty of objectivity and neutrality of public administrations the use, even occasional, of unofficial flags outside buildings and public spaces, even when they do not replace, but rather coincide, with the flag of Spain and the other ones legally or statutorily instituted.”
