22/04/2026 | 17:33:12 Thank you, Madam Chair. By principle, and for reasons of moral integrity, I oppose the death penalty. The political party I am a member of back in Spain, Vox, has never requested the reinstatement of the death penalty in our country. For various reasons, amongst others, the death penalty was abolished by the current constitution in Spain in Article 15, with one exception, times of war, during which times, the Constitution excepts the legitimacy of the death penalty. However, something which... 21/04/2026 | 20:01:24 Thank you, Mister President. It goes without saying, at least in my opinion, that the main body of the Council of Europe is the European Court of Human Rights. Why? Because it is a court that functions as such, despite being an international court, since its judgments should in principle be implemented by member states. That is part of the European Convention on Human Rights and the protocols, they have to be adhered to. In addition, as is the case in Spain, and in many countries, the... 29/01/2026 | 17:42:44 Thank you very much. Thank you, President. A lot has been said already in this debate. For instance, the fact that coercion, trying to impose conversion practice or any other kind of method, that this would be an offence. It should actually be an offence in all of our criminal legislations in member states of the Council of Europe. So I don't think there is any need to actually introduce special provisions on this particular type of practice because it involves coercion; therefore, it is... 28/01/2026 | 19:17:58 Mister President, I think that the speech made by Baroness Ruth HUNT from the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group has illustrated perfectly the reason why it is a mistake to ignore the role of families in educating children. Baroness Ruth HUNT says that education has never been neutral, and is never neutral. I would like to know, in that case, how an education could be neutral if it's content were only to depend on the State? As far as I know, the State is not a rational being, it is a... 02/10/2025 | 19:16:37 Thank you very much Madam President. The issue of housing in Europe is not something that we just face in, you know, Ukraine or elsewhere, Gaza, or any kind of conflict territory. It's actually something that holds true for many European countries. In fact, in all of our countries we have a housing problem. In Spain, we have a terrible problem when it comes to housing, and I'm afraid it just goes on and on because we've got a socialist government in coalition with communists, and that has... 02/10/2025 | 16:33:41 Thank you, President. Let's not fool ourselves. This initiative, along with many others, in this Parliamentary Assembly, is on entirely ideological grounds. It just so happened that some people on one side of the European political spectrum didn't particularly like the outcome of the Georgian elections. However, the Council of Europe cannot sanction violations of human rights. That is not who we are. It would lead to a lack of credibility. We are all well aware of that, because it is actually... 27/06/2025 | 10:19:49 Thank you very much, Mister President. I would like to make a few general remarks about immigration, not specifically in connection with the various resolutions that were debated this week, but perhaps some more general considerations. Now we regularly debate migration in this Assembly, but, in my view, we often overlook certain aspects that are relevant. Firstly, the European Left, the self-styled progressives, in our view, actually amount to a form of cultural regression, basically... 25/06/2025 | 19:45:32 Thank you, Mr. Chairman, The Committee of Ministers is asking the Assembly for its opinion on this protocol amending the 2005 Warsaw Convention. As you know, the aim of the Convention is to establish national prevention policies in order to improve and develop international cooperation. And then, in Articles 5, 6 and 7, to ask each member state of the Council of Europe to criminalize certain conduct, public provocation of terrorist acts, recruitment for terrorism, training for terrorism, in... 25/06/2025 | 19:01:59 Thank you, President. These documents, which have been submitted, in my opinion, and other speakers before me have said so, are disconcerting on the one hand. Rhetorically, we're told to think of various things, but the ideological bases and the intellectual bases seem very flimsy, thinking about what really lies behind them, the ideas that have been shared and hence, when it comes to participative democracy, the policy of consensus. Now, I have been aware of various studies about this, but... 11/04/2025 | 10:20:45 Thank you, Mister President. I would like to conclude this session simply by commenting, in a critical tone, on what I would dare to class as legal fantasies, certain things often heard in this Assembly. Such words are heard even in the mouths of the rapporteurs, of reports, resolutions or recommendations, which seems to me inappropriate. It is clear that freedom of expression allows us all to say what we please, even that which seems not so, or not in legal terms. But when it is said by a...