Almeida's 'pre-wedding' in Cibeles: he stands up for Ayuso and uses Rivera to attack Sánchez: "He is the leader of the gang..."

Carlos Guisasola Madrid

Madrid

Updated Saturday, March 23, 2024-00:32

For some time now - for some since the arrival of Reyes Maroto, for others since the general elections of 23-J - the Plenary Hall of the Cibeles Palace has become a kind of theme park where everyone chooses their attraction favorite. There are those who go on the roller coaster, those who opt for the shuttle or those who decide to go for a dip in the aquatic ones, the most refreshing on warm spring days like yesterday. Few councilors (although

there are some

) leave without having some shock. The March Plenary Session, the fastest in memory, with some suitcases waiting to start the Easter holidays, was no exception.

Noise and fighting are already customary in Cibeles, a coliseum where one can take a walk through the history of

Rayo Vallecano

, as if they were actually listening to a football podcast, or end up talking about that free Cuba and the cage that is the Current

Cuba

. Or where, recurrently,

article 78

is invoked

because someone considers themselves personally attacked. A municipal agora where the absolute majority of the popular dissolves that intrigue of the last legislature, when the positions of the PP and Ciudadanos did not always share an estuary. That may be why the quarrel crossed his door and settled there to stay for quite some time. At least that is the taste in the mouth that each appointment at the Madrid City Council leaves.

Yesterday's adventure, by the way, dawned with

Reyes Maroto

challenging

José Luis Martínez-Almeida

, regarding

Isabel Díaz Ayuso

, who had learned of the Prosecutor's complaint against her partner,

Alberto González Amador

, from the other side of the puddle, due to a trip to Chile to meet with businessmen. The municipal spokesperson for the PSOE asked for the resignation of the president of the Community and received the mayor's reply. Ayuso, as other names outside the City Council have been doing, was the protagonist. The fourth section, at the initiative of the PSOE, was clear: "Do you think that the president of the Community of Madrid, given the facts that we are learning, should resign from her position?"

Enma López and Reyes Maroto, from the PSOE.Rodrigo JiménezEFE

And the classroom began to heat up. "He has managed to summarize Madrid's public life in three words: canes, fruit and Maserati," the socialist spokesperson ironically said. «For the first time, be brave and separate your future from Mrs. Ayuso. "She asks for her resignation to preserve the democratic quality of this institution," Maroto added.

Almeida's reply: «I believe that Mrs. Ayuso should not resign, but you should, Mrs. Maroto. She has done the most sectarian and disgusting exercise in machismo that I have ever heard. Demand responsibility for what your partner does. So Sánchez should resign because of what his wife was doing with Air Europa? And the washing machine continued spinning in that dialectical spin: «They are nervous because they are corruption, because the PSOE is inseparable from corruption. The PSOE and corruption is the same as Bonnie and Clyde," the mayor threw out.

The 59 million for Filomena

The allusions to the absent are constant. Even sometimes (perhaps) unintentionally. This was the case of Almeida when dealing with the issue of the 59 million requested and denied by Moncloa after the Filomena storm. Before transcribing the mayor's quote, it is worth remembering that premonitory

speech

in the Congress of Deputies of the former leader of Ciudadanos,

Albert Rivera

, in July 2019. «With whom does Sánchez plan to carry out his plan? Well, with his band. What a band. With Otegi toasting, with the nationalists in Navarra, with those of Més in the Balearic Islands, with the nationalists in the Valencian Community, with Podemos leading the economy of Spain. Sánchez has a plan and he has a band.

And Almeida remembered (coincidentally?) that band. «Rather than with the people of Madrid, Sánchez prefers to be with Puigdemont, with Junqueras, with Koldo, with Ábalos, with Armengol, with Illa and with Torres. Do you know why? Because he is the leader of the gang. He is the leader of the gang that, on the one hand, wants to end our model of coexistence and, on the other hand, is corruption in its purest form. "He is the leader of the gang who refuses to explain why he denies us 59 million for Filomena's damages."

Félix López-Rey, from Más Madrid.Rodrigo JiménezEFE

A lot of things happened in that express plenary session, with those vacation plans waiting on the other side of the wall. As the veteran

Félix López-Rey

, councilor of Más Madrid, previously hooking up with the councilor for bringing to the fore an old matter of 120,000 euros, he took a megaphone to the stand to demand the normalization of its use in demonstrations. All, of course, after a sanction to an acquaintance for not having asked permission at an event. It also happened that the Conde Miranda Special Plan, 1, was approved, which will allow the conservation of this 18th century palace and its use for tourist apartments, with the refusal of Más Madrid and PSOE. There was even a plea in defense of Christianity that allowed us to hear biblical quotes left and right.

In a way, what happened yesterday in that amusement park that is today Cibeles was a kind of pre-wedding for Almeida, who will appear already married and after his honeymoon in the next chapter of this busy saga that is being filmed in the Salón de City Council plenary sessions. A place where any issue from any corner of the planet can become a topic of debate.