Parade Armed Forces of Spain in the National Day. File Madrid, oct 11 (Sputnik).- United left (IU) and Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) posted this on Tuesday at the Congress two propositions not of law in which they urge the Government to abolish the military parades on the occasion of the Day of the National Holiday that is celebrated every year on the 12 of October.
The initiative of CKD, which bears the signature of its spokesman Gabriel Ruffian, calls it "immoral" to spend large sums of money to defray the military parades at the time that "budget cuts in areas such as health or education".
As reported by the Ministry of Defence during the day on Monday, it is expected an expense of about 800,000 million euros on the military actions that will take place this Wednesday.
data provided by Defense estimate that over the past five years spending on parades military personnel has been reduced by 82 percent.
In the opinion of IU, whose proposition not of law against parades carries the signature of its leader, Alberto Garzón, said spending still remains "disproportionately".
in Addition, the United Left considered excessive held big parades to military twice a year: on the 12th of October on the occasion of the National Day and the 28th of may on the occasion of the Day of the Armed Forces.
The two political formations coincide in pointing out that these celebrations have a "component militaristic absolutely out of date" and you hardly have popular support in Spain.
The text submitted by the pro-independence ERC recalled that in a survey conducted by the Sociological Research Centre in the year 2009 on National Defence and Armed Forces, half of the respondents stated to feel little or no emotion before a military ceremony while more than 60 percent claimed to have little or no interest in information related to the world military.
The parade of the 12 of October of this year, according to the State Meteorological Agency will be marked by the rains that are expected in the whole territory, will highlight the absences of some of the leaders of the Spanish left that have declined to attend the celebrations.
The leader of we Can, Pablo Churches, will not attend the central event that will take place in Madrid because, as explained by the organization, its leaders will be "working in the defence of human rights and social justice in this country" and not "eating canapés in celebrations," while "the public suffers".
Another of the absences highlighted in this act shall be the mayor of Madrid, Manuela Carmena, that during the day of Wednesday, he will fly to Colombia to participate Thursday in a summit of policy-makers. (Sputnik)
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