The spokesperson for Más Madrid in the City Council, Rita Maestre, has been expelled from the Cibeles Plenary Session this Tuesday and her entire municipal group has left with her, after having had a dispute with the Vox bench and being warned for speaking without the turn to speak, just like the Madrid mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, did.
At Vox they have felt insulted after they understood that Maestre had called them “Nazis”, as the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has corroborated. “Mr. President, Mrs. Maestre has repeatedly called the Vox councilors Nazis, and I would ask you to please rectify them,” said the councilor.
Maestre has defended that what he has done at a closed microphone has been “the confirmation of a truth”, that in the demonstrations on Ferraz Street “there were Nazi flags and people from Vox”, also from the PP like Esperanza Aguirre, to go on to criticize the “hypocrisy” of those from Almeida, who have “normalized” that the councilors of the main opposition force are called “terrorists and Hamas Madrid.”
The expulsion decision was made by the president of the Plenary Session, Borja Fanjul, after having warned Maestre three times, the last ones because he considered that he had spoken when it was not his turn. “I cannot expel her from the plenary session by regulation, as happened with the Vox spokesperson, Javier Ortega Smith,” he warned first.
The mayor of Más Madrid explained that the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has intervened “without asking to speak, without any type of love or respect for the rules of the Plenary Session”, when she had requested it “on repeated occasions”.
“The president has denied me the floor after having given it to Almeida for a long minute. And, as you will understand, the double standard of allowing some to do one thing and others not, is neither fair nor are we going to remain silent in the face of injustice,” Maestre told reporters minutes later.
The protests between benches have continued to happen, with the city’s medals as a backdrop, and Fanjul has even demanded that Maestre not continue “insulting other councilors”, to go on to announce the first notice of the three before the expulsion.
Socialist Enma López has questioned Fanjul’s “hardness” because “no one can be called a Nazi but the President of the Government can be called Hitler.” Following her words, Fanjul called the Urban Planning delegate, Borja Carabante, to order for the first time.
