The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, considered yesterday that the spokesperson for the Vox Municipal Group in the Madrid City Council, Javier Ortega Smith, “should step aside” from his position after the incident with the Más Madrid councilor Eduardo Fernández Rubiño during the ordinary plenary session in the Madrid City Council last Friday.
This was stated during the press conference after the last Government Council of the Community of Madrid, where he took stock of the management carried out in the region during the year 2023.
The regional president condemned that politics is “establishing itself” in such “reprehensible” practices and condemned that councilors, counselors or deputies have to touch each other or hit objects.
In this sense, Ayuso stressed that “no one should approach any politician at their seat if it is not out of courtesy.” For this reason, he considered that the Vox municipal spokesperson “should step aside” to avoid “the escalation we are entering.”
Asked if she, with her expressions and allusions, participates in that hostile political climate, she responded that, “if telling the truth is creating a climate of tension, then we have a problem.”
The regional president stressed that “we are adults and we have to speak as such,” which is why she stressed that, “if an agreement is being made with people who are convicted of blood crimes, it is said,” and she stressed that “the radical is the one who "He shoots and the one who kills, not the one who denounces it."
Ayuso insisted that "if acts are committed such as agreeing with communists that directly go against the company, the medium-sized business and the prosperity of all Spaniards to literally ruin us as they do with all their measures, it is said."
Furthermore, "if the Government and especially the president has already embraced it, because it is now trying to engulf Sumar to try to stay in Moncloa, with policies that go directly against the investment and prosperity of all Spaniards and if one denounces that the president "has decided to be more communist than Sumar's own, it is said."
The regional president assured that saying that does not generate violence, because “I am an adult, I defend things as I see them and that does not mean that I feel like attacking anyone and that is not why I approach the seats of those from Más Madrid and the I attack, I give them things or I make them ugly.”
Ayuso defended that he has respect for his political adversaries, who "are in the institutions because other citizens have chosen them that way," but asserted that, "dialectically, things are as they are."
Finally, he denounced that “we are losing a lot of freedom when it comes to expressing ourselves, when it comes to saying what we think.” Furthermore, "very serious things are happening", where "the history of Spain is being rewritten with Bildu against the Transition, there are pro-independence minorities who disrespect the head of State, insult those who do not think like them and attack the vast majority of Spaniards".
For this reason, the president of the Community of Madrid ended by saying that "one thing is to say things as they are and another thing is to attack, to lack respect and decorum towards the opponent." “It is something that I condemn,” she concluded.
