Is Facha an insult or a compliment? The question remained in the air of the witnesses this Thursday, while the deputies of the PP and Más Madrid argued loudly in the plenary session of the assembly. The word was raised against the president by a representative of Más Madrid, Pablo Padilla, who took the floor and regretted that Telemadrid had become “TeleAyuso”.
“If you want a little mirror that shows Ayuso how smart he is, how good he looks and how well he does everything, let him pay for it with his money,” Padilla said from his seat. The Volksbank reacted angrily. The popular speaker of parliament Carlos Díaz Pache spoke up. He rose from his seat in the second row behind the president’s chair, which remained seated. Pache called on his party colleague, Assembly President Enrique Ossorio, to take action.
“You cannot, Mr. Padilla, insult the group leader, say insults of this seriousness and pretend that nothing is happening here,” he accused him from his seat in the chamber, “respect for this room, respect for the deputies of this Room, because you can’t offend like that! I ask, President, that this adjective be removed from the minutes of the meeting.”
The request was surprising as far harsher words were heard in the chamber. Without going any further, the President of the Assembly once described the Podemos deputies as “pedophiles”. And on the other hand, the president has claimed the adjective facha on other occasions. For example, when he told TV presenter Ana Rosa Quintana: “If they call you a fascist, you are on the good side of history,” or when he tweeted a video expressing his pride that the left used this word as an attack. “Me Too,” she wrote, using the famous slogan of American feminists (Me Too).
The other apparent inconsistency is that Article 114 of the Rules of Procedure of the Madrid Chamber allows a person concerned to defend himself. But in this case, President Ayuso remained seated and refused to intervene.
They were not silent on the Más Madrid bench. Representative Alejandro Sánchez highlighted this contradiction and railed against “the dictatorship of the Popular Party.”
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Mónica García also asked for an interview to complain to the president. “I would like you to tell us here whether this article can be requested by the other political groups. Every time the People’s Party lacks the decency of our group, the president insults us and insults me personally by saying that they can’t run, that I’m at home or that I have to go to therapy or that I’m crying must come, etc. etc. Can I use this item?”
“Of course,” Ossorio told him.
The battle between the two groups continued. From his seat, Pache and Ayuso’s number two in the Madrid PP, Alfonso Serrano, loudly clashed with Padilla with the microphone closed.
The topic of Telemadrid was relevant because the network was in the news these days. The Supreme Court confirmed a week ago that the dismissal of the channel’s former news director, Jon Aritztimuño, was unlawful, and this morning Ayuso suffered a new blow when the Supreme Court also made an identical decision for the dismissal of the Telemadrid News deputy .
It has been a long time since a fight like this broke out in this assembly and the deputies have not yet addressed the main issue of the day, namely the vote on two non-legislative proposals from the PP against the amnesty that Junts is seeking in his negotiations the government of Pedro Sánchez and for the equality of the Spanish people before the law.
That wasn’t enough. Throughout the day, the debate over what constitutes an insult has resurfaced. First, when Elisa Vigil of the PP called the Más Madrid deputies “superior thugs” and “sticky”. He spoke about a less heated issue than Telemadrid, a proposal from this left-wing party on the computer chip industry, which the PP will reject. More Madrid complained loudly at 114 and then Vigil defended himself: “You are tyrants.” That is not an insult. It’s a definition per se.”
And then Monasterio, when the PSOE described Vox as right-wing extremist. Monasterio asked Ossorio about the word used for 114. For what innuendo? the president asked him. “It is enough to call Vox right-wing extremist.” Ossorio was stunned and perhaps doubted whether that was an insult or a definition in itself. Finally he granted it. “It is enough to call those of us who defend a policy extremely necessary for the Spanish people as right-wing extremists.” Ossorio’s face was a poem.
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