The moment when Ana Vázquez hands the can of pepper spray to a PP worker
The employee has explained that he activated it accidentally while cleaning it at the request of the party's deputy.
Popular PP deputy Ana Vázquez was forced to leave the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies by President Francina Armengol of the lower house, after she brandished a bottle of pepper spray during a control session. Armengol expressed her disapproval, stating, "This cannot be tolerated in the house of the people's sovereignty and the house of democracy."
The situation unfolded when Vázquez asked Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska about the "new normality" of freedom restrictions faced by Ceutian women, using the pepper spray as a symbol.
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