Spanish opposition leader summons Kast and says in Chile that “no dictatorship can be defended”

The leader of the opposition in Spain, Pablo Casado, said Friday in Chile that “no dictatorship, whether right or left, can be defended,” in response to a question about the defense that the Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast has made on occasions of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).
Casado, president of the Popular Party of Spain (PP, center-right) avoided referring in his response to the Chilean candidate, widely identified by the media as having ultra-right positions and who on Sunday, December 19, is measured in the runoff for the presidency of Chile against the leftist Gabriel Boric, but said that “a totalitarian regime cannot be defended.”
“You can not defend any dictatorship, whether right or left, it is unthinkable that in Spain the dictatorship of (Francisco) Franco (1939-1975) is defended,” said Casado, who gave a lecture at the Center for Public Studies (CEP) and then answered some questions from attendees.
The Spanish politician, who concluded this Friday in Chile a tour of South America that began last Tuesday in Argentina and that has also taken him to Uruguay and Paraguay, added in his response that “in Spain there is no debate on the vindication of the Franco regime”,” but that “what there is is an attempt to reopen the transition (to democracy) and amnesty by the left.”
“In Spain I think the great achievement of the transition is that the communists who returned from exile and the former ministers of the Franco regime gave each other a hug, which was an amnesty, what they did was forgive each other based on a reconciliation, an embrace between grandparents that now some want to undo as grandchildren,” Casado said.
Casado’s agenda in Chile included a meeting with the country’s president, Sebastián Piñera, at the seat of government, the Palacio de La Moneda.

Original source in Spanish