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'Death to Borbón' on the day of the Spanish Constitution

The Catalan Republican Party, ERC, is playing down a comment made by their deputy Joan Tardà in Congress.

The ERC Catalan Republican Party are trying to play down the controversy after one of their deputies, Joan Tardà, shouted ‘Long live the republic, death to Borbón’ during the ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the Spanish Constitution on Saturday.



There was much coverage of the incident in the Spanish press over the weekend, and the deputy concerned said that he was thinking of Felipe V when he made what was ‘an historic shout from the War of Succession’, and that the media wanted to criminalise his party.