During a meeting with the president of the European Parliament (EP) Roberta Metsola, Miranda denounced her expulsion from Israeli soil and asked that the European Parliament transfers a formal complaint to the Government of Tel Aviv.

We cannot allow the interference of third States in the international relations of the EP, affirmed the parliamentarian in relation to a country that, according to her words, “builds settlements as an occupying power, and destroys schools and homes”.

It is essential that MEPs have the freedom to carry out our work when we participate in official delegations, added the member of the Galician Nationalist Bloc of the European Free Alliance.

Miranda was deported from the Tel Aviv airport on February 21 as part of a trip that had prior authorization, according to her words.

The MEP reported today, through a press release, about her meeting with Metsola, whom she thanked “for her solidarity and that of her team from the first moment of the expulsion.”

She, in turn, asked that the EP delegation for Relations with Israel forward a complaint to the Government of that country.

The Greens group will propose that the European Parliament condemn Tel Aviv’s behavior in the next plenary session and will defend the independence of MEPs in the exercise of their functions, she concluded.

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