The PSOE has voted this Monday against giving the medals of honor of the city of Madrid to the former mayor Ana Botella and the writer and columnist Andrés Trapiello in a gesture that has led to the radicalization of his speech, more evident when Más Madrid has announced your vote in favor.

The socialist spokesperson for Culture, Mar Espinar, considers that supporting the decoration for the leader of the PP means "whitewashing her management."

These recognitions have gone ahead with a large majority of the votes thanks to the support of PP, Ciudadanos and Más Madrid in an extraordinary plenary session of the Madrid City Council.

Vox, for its part, has abstained from the medal to Ana Botella because it has been voted en bloc along with the recognition of the former mayor Manuela Carmena, who she rejected.

After the debacle of the Madrid Socialists in the regional elections of May 4, the municipal PSOE now seems to want to toughen up its opposition.

In a severe speech, the Socialist spokesperson denounced that awarding a medal to the former mayor, as is done with all council members after her mandate, is "an institutional outrage."

Mar Espinar has indicated that in the file that accompanies the proposal for recognition of José María Aznar's wife, "there is talk of his life, his family, the NGOs in which he collaborates, but practically nothing of his stage as mayor, except that she discovered, I understand that she did not directly, the remains of Cervantes ".

In the same plenary session, the same recognition has been granted to Manuela Carmena.

However, for the PSOE this has meant "dirtying their management", by equating it, for the socialists, to that of Botella: "You know how scandalous it is to promote Mrs. Botella that they have had to use Manuela Carmena, a mayoress elected at the polls and who differed in everything with Mrs. Bottle ".

The socialist has denounced that in the file "the sale of social housing to a vulture fund is ignored, nothing is said about the management of garbage or trees, which has generated so many problems years later."

All of them suppose, for the municipal PSOE, "an indignity".

As for the writer and columnist of EL MUNDO Andrés Trapiello, the socialists reject that "the revisionism of the history that he represents can be awarded."

More Madrid votes in favor

The position of the PSOE has been more portrayed compared to the main opposition group, Más Madrid, which has decided to vote in favor.

Its spokesperson, Rita Maestre, explained that they have voted in favor of all the medals to be awarded in San Isidro because "pluralism is what differentiates the institution from the party."

Rita Maestre has considered that a gesture like that of her party today is what "differentiates an institution from a party and a government."

The first carries within it "the recognition of political pluralism" and that is why Más Madrid has voted in favor of "institutional medals that should generate transversal support."

The head of the municipal opposition wanted to highlight especially the merit of Manuela Carmena, "the first mayor of Madrid elected at the polls", who "worked every minute for the people who live in Madrid and to modernize the city to be greener, sustainable, empathetic, supportive and to open it to nationals and foreigners, with more citizen participation ".

Villacís applauds Maestre

After the extraordinary plenary session, the deputy mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, applauded Más Madrid "for knowing how to differentiate what is government of institutions and parties."

Vox, for its part, has done the same as the PSOE: it has demonstrated against some medals and in favor of others.

His spokesman, Javier Ortega Smith, has abstained in the recognition that the Corporation will deliver to Carmena because "it created confrontation and division."

He has also rejected the medal for the singer Ramoncín because, in his opinion, he "justified" the violence against the radical right-wing party.

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