The Madrid City Council will name Iglesias a non grata person for insulting the Police

Pablo Iglesias is 24 hours away from becoming a persona non grata for the Madrid City Council.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
24 October 2022 Monday 02:32
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The Madrid City Council will name Iglesias a non grata person for insulting the Police

Pablo Iglesias is 24 hours away from becoming a persona non grata for the Madrid City Council. At least that is the intention of the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who has advanced that "there will be no problem" in the fact that the next Cibeles Plenary to be held this Tuesday fails the former Vice President of the Government Pablo Iglesias for his words about the police.

The controversy derives from one of the soflames made by Iglesias from his program La Base. It was on September 28 when the former purple leader pointed out that "With five aunts like (the leader of Podemos) Isa Serra on horseback, we would see the entire Madrid Municipal Police run. It would also not do them any good. Isa would bring me everyone's hair them and (Pablo) Echenique and I would burn them at the stake with Arnaldo Otegi in Arralde".

Iglesias expressed himself in this way after learning the day before that the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid had suspended the execution of the sentence of one year and seven months in prison imposed on the leader of Podemos Isa Serra for attacking the authority during a protest for an eviction executed in Madrid in 2014.

Iglesias's words were initially criticized by the CPPM, the majority union of the Municipal Police Corps that announced the filing of a lawsuit for defamation and violation of the right to honor. And, almost immediately, they jumped into the Madrid political arena, with Vox being the first party to move to raise the proposal to the plenary session for the City Council to declare Iglesias persona non grata "for the insults manifested against the Municipal Police".

The proposal signed by the Vox councilor, Javier Ortega Smith, is shared in its essence by the PP and Cs. But, as the relationship of the three rights in Cibeles has been broken for months -due to environmental policies-, the coalition partners that govern in the City Council have decided to present their own disapproval initiative.

Thus, while Vox will propose his appointment as a persona non grata, the municipal groups of PP and Cs will present a joint initiative so that the Plenary Session of the City Council disapproves the statements of the former leader of Podemos and "his unacceptable insults to the Municipal Police Corps of Madrid".

Despite the distancing of the corporation from Vox, and vice versa, it seems clear that the three right-wing parties will unite their votes in the vote to carry out the disapproval. This has been advanced by the mayor of Madrid himself, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who has assured that "there will be no problem" in carrying out the initiatives.

Iglesias, for his part, has valued the initiatives presented against him and, in statements to Rac1, has indicated that "what has really bothered them is the humorous approach to denouncing a police set-up".