Rubiño calls Vox "thugs in a suit and tie" but warns that "they are not going to intimidate them"

MADRID, 23 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Madrid councilor Eduardo Fernández Rubiño has called the Vox representatives "thugs with work and ties who attack people's dignity" but has warned them that "they are not going to intimidate them" in their political action.

In an interview on RNE reported by Europa Press, Rubiño thus denounced what happened yesterday afternoon in the plenary session of the Madrid City Council, where after an intervention in the gallery the municipal spokesperson for Vox, Javier Ortega Smith, confronted him and He threw some papers and an empty water bottle on his seat.

The mayor of Más Madrid recalled that political representatives, in addition to drafting laws, must be "a model of society with an exemplary attitude." "That is why what we experienced yesterday is so dangerous, which crossed all the red lines, since it represented the act of greatest intimidation and violence that I have experienced in the years that I have been in politics, which I have been in for a few now," he said. indicated.

Rubiño believes that it is one more case of that "dotted line" that runs through Vox's political action constantly, "which involves permanently targeting LGTBI people from the stands, for spreading hate speech against vulnerable people, for attacking those who think differently or for dehumanizing the adversary".

"It is a party that has dedicated itself, for example, to saying that the President of the Government should be hanged by his feet, who has gone out to demonstrate with ultra groups that carry swastikas in the streets of this country asking that the result not be recognized of the July 23 general elections, and that indeed, in the end, they also end up leading to an attack of intimidation.

An attack, the Más Madrid councilor described what he suffered yesterday, "that I didn't know if it was going to become physical because he approached me with an incredibly violent attitude typical of a nightclub thug at 6 in the morning."

"That is the example given by the institutions that obviously legitimizes what later happens in the streets. Because if in these years we have seen how attacks against LGTBI people have increased, or we have seen how we are suffering more hate crimes than never, it is precisely because the bullies who were previously repudiated by society, now feel legitimized by gentlemen in suits and ties who from the institutions provoke attacks on the dignity of people like these," he argued.

Eduardo Fernández has warned that Vox "are not going to intimidate them." "We know perfectly well what these people are and if Ortega Smith thinks he is going to intimidate me in the slightest, I think he doesn't know me. I have been supporting Vox and the institutions for many years and we are going to continue with our heads held high because we know them." perfectly, we know what they are, we know what they represent for this country and we know that this is exactly what the Spaniards decided to stand up and stop at the polls on July 23," he added.

The mayor of Más Madrid has stated that if they had been given the numbers after those national elections there would be Vox ministers in the Government of Spain right now. "Vox is the only partner that Mr. Feijóo has, to whom I have been willing to offer ministerial portfolios. Ortega Smith himself aspired to be Minister of the Interior of this country, this man who behaves in this way wanted to be in charge of the Police of our country," he denounced.

But Rubiño has stressed that the coalition government and the "democratic forces" are determined to "stand up to these people, we know perfectly well what they are." "What we ask is that the Popular Party and Mr. Feijóo explain how it is possible for them to govern with people who behave in this way in the institutions, in many city councils and in many autonomous communities," he concluded.