The Vox spokesperson in the Madrid City Council, Javier Ortega Smith, has thrown a bottle of water – empty – at the mayor of Más Madrid Eduardo Rubiño in the Cibeles plenary session, an act censored by the left-wing parties and by the mayor of Madrid , José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
The incident took place at the end of the ordinary December plenary session, which concluded with a motion by Vox to reject the motion of censure in Pamplona to give the mayoralty to EH Bildu.
After what happened, when the debate on the motion had not yet finished, the councilors of Más Madrid and PSOE have left the chamber. The coalition has released a video of the session at the time of the incident in which Ortega Smith’s discussion with part of the municipal opposition is seen, although it does not capture the throwing of the bottle.
The councilors of the left have left after a heated exchange of words with the present of the plenary session, Borja Fanjul, and with Ortega Smith, in which Martínez-Almeida has also intervened to censure what happened. The entire left has called for the resignation of the Vox mayor.
After the plenary session, Ortega Smith has refused to leave his position as councilor and has assured that he will not stop denouncing the “disoriented” left. “Neither am I going to leave my council record, nor am I going to stop denouncing that left thrown into the mountains, nor that cowed right that does not know how to get on its knees, so I wish you a Merry Christmas and that you recover from your serious injuries.” the attacked,” he declared.
The PSOE has taken advantage of the episode to once again ask the PP to break its agreements with Vox. “What happened today in the Madrid City Council, which joins many other events carried out by officials of the neo-fascist party Vox, should make the Popular Party and Mr. Feijóo reflect on their government agreements with this political formation that clearly exists on a daily basis. on the margins of democracy and the Constitution,” party sources have pointed out.