Accusations of "support for genocide" and "anti-Semitism" due to the respective positions of PP and Más Madrid on the Israeli war, which already has more than 3,478 dead and more than 10,000 injured - almost all of them civilians and a good part of them in Palestinian territory. - have led to a tough exchange of opinions in the Madrid Assembly.
The first melee was fought between Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Mónica García. After being questioned by the second for defending "the law of an eye for an eye", the regional president has accused the opposition leader of demonstrating with her statements that her group "is not in favor of the Palestinian cause, but is deeply anti-Semitic."
The thing has not stopped there and after the dispute over the call for a minute of silence for "all the victims" of the conflict that the PP did not want to support last week to limit it only to the Israelis who died at the hands of the terrorist group Hamas , Ayuso has invited García to go to Palestine to see "what real life is like in the hands of Hamas" and, immediately afterwards, ask the leader of Más Madrid to take "the side of liberal democracies."
Faced with the accusation of being anti-Semitic, the deputy spokesperson for Más Madrid, Javier Padilla, asked to speak: "We are not going to allow the president even once to call into question the honor of this parliamentary group, which has always condemned all murders." "He pointed out, alleging that "the only side" in which his formation can be "is that of human rights." Padilla concluded his intervention by adding "if there is a party of war it is you", in reference to the PP.
There has come the turn of the PP spokesperson, Carlos Díaz-Pache, who, like Padilla, appeals to article 114.3 of the Chamber's Regulations, which regulates those "allusions that affect the decorum or dignity of a Parliamentary Group", accusing Más Madrid of not be equidistant. "You have crossed that barrier and are absolutely embarrassing," he said.
Díaz-Pache's accusation has motivated Más Madrid to demand an extra turn of intervention to defend itself, anticipating a loop of accusations that the president of the Chamber, the popular Enrique Ossorio, has refused to grant in an exhaustive manner. "If we continue like this, we will never move forward or get out of here," he noted, adding, in response to complaints from the Más Madrid bench, that the Chamber's regulations empower him to grant or not grant extra turns of reply to the anger of the opposition.
The regional president, however, took advantage of a subsequent question to have, for the moment, the last word. And, again without condemning the deaths of Palestinian victims, she has defended not being in favor of anyone because this is not about Palestine or Israel but about Human Rights.
