A comment on the Camela concert published on Facebook by Rafael Azor, a non-registered councillor who is part of the PP government team in Baza (Granada), caused a stir on social networks this Saturday. In a message that he later deleted, Azor attributed to gypsies a tendency not to work. He said: “Gypsies have never been very hard-working and neither were they last night. An hour and a bit of concert, with a ticket that was a bit expensive for what it was… Musicians with 30 years of career can do more.” The local PSOE seized the text and denounced it by publishing it on its networks.
“I have nothing to say,” Azor tells elDiario.es in Andalusia before abruptly hanging up. This is not the first time he has caused a stir with his comments. Three years ago, his sexist remarks went viral when he declared in a municipal plenary session that “women who are not women” go to the 8M demonstrations.
“All women like to be complimented unless they become bitter,” he said then, before adding: “If a woman is complimented by a man, and she’s not a woman, well, of course she doesn’t like to be complimented. . . compliment them, but all real women like to be complimented by men. A week after the comments went viral, he apologized, admitting they were “unfortunate.”
The PSOE has demanded explanations from Mayor Pedro Ramos (PP), accusing him of “whitewashing this type of racist, humiliating and humiliating conduct” to remain in government. Azor, who obtained his council certificate as leader of the Vox candidacy, became non-registered to join the government team as a Maintain councilor.
On another occasion he proposed a real formula for the treatment of pruning remains: “I have a fence with sheep, I put the pruning remains there and they will eat them and I will set fire to the bags.”
In 2019, this newspaper revealed that it had a debt of more than 100,000 euros to the Treasury and 7,000 euros to Social Security, from a cafeteria it owned and opened in 1997. Azor is not new to politics. In 1995, he was already an advisor to the PP.
“Franco worked for Spain and I work for Baza”
The Socialists won the elections by fifty votes, but the PP obtained the support of the Compromiso con Baza, which set as a condition that Vox would not enter the government. The solution was for Azor to withdraw from the municipal group (according to him, not from the party) and join as a non-member.
When leaving his old group, he justified his departure by saying that “Franco worked for Spain and I for Baza.” He likes this phrase so much that in his WhatsApp profile, this motto is superimposed on a photomontage that mixes his face with a portrait of the dictator.
Among Azor’s demands to support the PP was the presidency of the Municipal Housing and Land Company. In May, the PSOE had assured that the mayor had already signed a decree with his appointment, but that a complaint of incompatibility had forced its cancellation. Azor manages two companies dedicated to urban planning and housing activity. Among them, there is one that rents cave houses: “Troglodita Accommodation in Baza”, it is indicated on its website.
