The Municipal Group of Más Madrid accused a Vox councilor of the capital, Ignacio Ansaldoto make comments “racist” and “xenophobic” against Caroline Eliasadvisor to the left party.
The events occurred during the Town Planning, Environment and Mobility Commission which was held this Monday. In one of the questions of the session, Elías complained about a “advertising appeared on EMT marquees” in the days close to October 12, Hispanic Heritage Day, whose message read the following: “1492. Neither genocides nor slavers. They were heroes and saints. 12-O, happy Hispanic holiday”.
For the councilor of Más Madrid, this text “praises” “genocide” and “slavery” and represents a “contempt for members of a community that has suffered violent colonization”. “The message is clearly and undoubtedly an exaltation of the colonialism to which the American continent was subjected from October 12, 1492.”
After the intervention of Elías and the response of the delegate of the zone, Borja Carabante, Ansaldo He asked to speak for hints. “Every time this lady speaks in a commission or in plenary session, she calls us genocidaires. I think this lady is from Salvador, I don’t know if she has nationality, but she lives in Spain and earns her income thanks to the Spanish. Let her study a little history and stop instilling the black legend,” declared the councilor.
In the last part of the session, the spokesperson for Más Madrid at the Commission, Jose Luis Nietoasked Ansaldo to apologize to Elias and “take back the words you said” against her because she was out of place.
In response to this complaint, the municipal representative of Vox assured that “he never disrespected her” to the counselor, who reminded Ansaldo that she is also Spanish.
“I told him to study history and what the Spanish were doing in America”“, he remarked, to later indicate to Elías that the fact of being Spanish means that “all the more reason” he should not describe the people who welcomed him as “genocidal”.
This response gave rise to an off-microphone discussion, during which the deputy spokesperson for Más Madrid in the same body, Esther Gomezcriticized Ansaldo for his comments “racist” and “xenophobic”.
As Borja Carabante explains, the advertising space was contracted by the Catholic Association of Propagandistsa “moral” person whose marquee proposal has passed the ethical checks of the AUTOCONTROL Association, which guarantees that advertising is fair, truthful, honest and legal, as detailed on its website.
“This government does not value the political, religious, moral or social intention of advertising campaigns because we believe in freedom of expression,” said the regional delegate.
