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Updated Monday, January 29, 2024-12:09

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The first plenary session of the year, the first ordinary one, of course, since 2024 started with the one in which

Javier Ortega Smith

(Vox) was failed for his gesture towards

Eduardo Rubiño

(Más Madrid), was moved to Monday because, this Tuesday, Almeida will defend in Brussels, Madrid's candidacy to host the new European Authority to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism (AMLA). So, the Cibeles Palace inaugurated the ordinary course and did it again with high temperatures and decibels. This is how 2023 night fell.

It was just after 10:00 a.m. when the Municipal Socialist Group put the sixth question on the table, which had a concise statement: "How do you value the treatment that the Municipal Government gives to the opposition."

Enma López

defended her

, replied

Inma Sanz

, the vice mayor. And she did it by focusing her sights on Reyes Maroto, spokesperson for the PSOE in the City Council.

"Until you arrived here, no councilor had ever attacked the mayor or any councilor, in an unusual act. And the one who did it was a councilor that you put on your lists... or they put him on your lists. He just executes the orders of Sanchismo and, if it were up to you,

Viondi

would not have resigned," Sanz launched. "His great contribution to this Plenary Session is lies, tension, Sanchism and very little respect for the Government team," he added.

It was the first time that

Reyes Maroto

, visibly upset, referred to article 78 of the regulations. "I ask to speak for allusions," he complained to the president of the Plenary,

Borja Fanjul

. But he received a negative response. "This is an example that the president does not know how to keep order in this Plenary," he protested. "This is called censorship, president. This is a plenary session, not a circus," he added. From the socialist group they regretted the allusions to his spokesperson, "as well as the search for Sanz's tension in all his allusions."

Maroto's calm lasted only a few minutes, because, when

Borja Carabante

addressed the issue of the cantons, his name came up again. And not for the better, of course. "By allusions. I ask to speak according to article 78. That's enough! You put words in my mouth that I have not said. I have never said that the cantons bring rats. The lies that leave them outside of this City Council and in the rallies every Sunday," Maroto protested.

In the commotion, the president had to defend his authority, even with Almeida himself. "Mr. Mayor, I am presiding over the plenary session." Because the temperature in Cibeles, in the middle of spring in January on the street, is still high.