The expulsion of the spokesperson for Más Madrid, Rita Maestrefrom the plenary session of the capital’s City Council following being accused of calling Vox councilors “Nazis” by the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has once once more set fire to the Cibeles plenary session.
After 11:30 this Tuesday morningduring the intervention of the delegate of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Marta Rivera, who defended the appropriateness of the granting of the Madrid Medal to the Fundación del Toro de Lidia, and following several fusses on the benches of Más Madrid and the PP, Martínez-Almeida has taken the floor to denounce that Maestre had called the Vox councilors “Nazis”.
Maestre has tried to speak without success, since the president of the Plenary Session, Borja Fanjul has not allowed her to intervene to respond to Almeida’s words, so, by speaking without being in turn and following being called to order three times by the president, she has been expelled from the plenary session, and her group has gone out with her and has not returned to the headquarters of the municipal Corporation.
The match was preceded by a tense debate on the previous point, that of the awarding of the city’s Medal of Honor to the Jewish community, Rayo Vallecano and Carmen Iglesias Cano, which Más Madrid has rejected considering that the municipal government seeks, with it, to pay homage to the “genocidal” Government of Israel, led by its president, Benjamin Netanyahu, a fact that has been related to anti-Semitism by Rivera de la Cruz.
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Thus, the deputy spokesperson for Más Madrid, Eduardo Fernández Rubiñoin charge of defending the voting position of his group on the granting of the Madrid Medals, in the subsequent point, had declared that “those who demonstrate next to people carrying swastikas at the Ferraz door” are the PP and Vox.
In statements to the press, Master has explained that Rubiño, during the debate on the awarding of the Madrid Medals, referred to “a true fact”, which is that “at the Ferraz door there have been people demonstrating for weeks and that group included people carrying swastikas “, which allows us to “infer” that “they were Nazis”, as well as people “from the PP”, such as Esperanza Aguirre, or from Vox, such as the spokesperson in the Consistory, Javier Ortega Smith.
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Teachers has admitted to having said “his friends the Nazis”although he has not specified whether he was referring directly to Vox or the Ferraz protesters.
About this issue, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeidahas assured the press that, at one point during Rivera’s intervention, Maestre “has repeatedly called the Vox councilors Nazis.”
“He didn’t say that they were at the demonstration, he said ‘Nazis’, and when we protested, he said, pointing out to them: yes, they are Nazis.”
The mayor has assured that, during the defense of the suitability of the Madrid Medal for the Fighting Bull Foundation by Rivera de la Cruz, where the delegate has cited artists who are fond of bullfighting such as Pablo Picasso or Federico García Lorca, Rita Maestre has expressed: “That would be before you shot Lorca.”
In Almeida’s opinion, has urged the leader of Más Madrid to apologize to both the PP and Vox”, the people of Madrid do not deserve that the municipal plenary session be the scene of “quarrels and physical and verbal confrontations”, and the behavior of some municipal spokespersons has been considered “inadmissible”.
The first plenary session of the mandate, that of September 2023, was marked by the slaps in the face that the former PSOE leader Daniel Viondi gave to the mayor inside the chamber, and the last plenary session of the year, that of December, concluded with a notorious episode – which led to an extraordinary plenary session and the unanimous request that the Vox spokesperson leave his position as mayor – starring Ortega Smith, who angrily hit a bottle in front of Eduardo Rubiño’s seat.
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Above all the controversy, the Vox spokesperson Javier Ortega Smithhas stated that his group will not take any action in this regard so as not to “waste time and money” trying to get “some fools to understand” that Vox has “nothing to do with totalitarian ideologies”, while urging “the extreme left” of “Hamas Madrid and Sánchez’s party” to apologize for the “120 million deaths” of communism.
The spokesperson for the PSOE-M, Reyes Marotohas said that “any insult that has been heard in the plenary session” is “totally reprehensible”, although he has criticized that, for the president of the plenary session, it is only possible to intervene “in some” cases.
