There is a plaque naming one of the upstairs rooms of PSPV headquarters after Alameda Salvador Allende. Valencian socialists observed a moment of silence to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup that killed the former Chilean president and marked the transition to a military dictatorship that would last 22 years.
National and regional deputies, senators and veterans of the formation gathered at the headquarters of the socialists to demand the union of the South American leader and the Valencian federation of fists and roses with Allende and the figure of the Chilean people, the writer. The leading figures of this country were Emma Sepúlveda and Vicent Garcés, the advisor to the government that was overthrown in 1973.
The man, a member of parliament, was there yesterday in Santiago de Chile to mark the 50th anniversary and recalled that his sister Joan was part of Allende’s closest circle. In fact, he remembered that Joan had been there minutes before the La Moneda palace was bombed, saying goodbye to the president who had asked her to leave, and that someone had to tell her what had happened. “Allende was an example for the left to follow; a possible path to democratic and peaceful victory through elections,” he explained.
It was under this mysticism that, after paraphrasing the words of Allende’s famous last speech before committing suicide, Ximo Puig delivered a scathing tirade against the far right as a way of encouraging his people to begin the political path. “The existence of the far right cannot be ignored in any government,” said the leader of the Valencian socialists, showing the Chilean leader’s image on the screen.
The former South American president’s symbolism served as Puig’s call to combat “what the far right represents: intolerance, fanaticism and xenophobia.” “We will fight until they disappear from our streets,” the regional senator said, also reminding that “this is also a gray day” in the Valencian Community due to Vox’s presence in the Generalitat government.
Puig, who attended another commemoration ceremony held in the afternoon in the square named after the former Chilean leader in Valencia, said that Allende “perfectly defined the integral parameters of freedom and equality, which are the basis of socialism.”