Almeida, about Ada Colau: “It has an important anti-Semitic stink. The culprit for the left is always Israel."

José Luis Martínez-Almeida and Begoña Villacís have summoned the media this Thursday at the headquarters of the Madrid district of Moncloa-Aravaca.

In a lower room of this imposing stone building, and while the residents resolve their bureaucratic problems with the City Council - such as the delay in paying the IBI or the registration, among others - the mayor and deputy mayor of the capital have appeared for 24 minutes.

Almeida did not miss an opportunity to reply to the mayoress of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, who announced this Wednesday that Barcelona is breaking diplomatic relations with the State of Israel and temporarily suspending the twinning agreement it maintains with Tel Aviv, the capital.

"I do not share those decisions," Almeida said.

“It has a significant anti-Semitic stink.

That is to say,

Almeida has also assured that "there will come a time when Colau's left-wing populism" will lead to "anti-Semitic attitudes."

The mayor of Madrid has announced that this afternoon he will send a letter to the councilor of Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, to twin, a movement that occurs after the suspension of the twinning that Barcelona and Tel Aviv have maintained for 25 years.

“Madrid is clear about where it has to be.

We know which is the right side.

We have to strengthen relations and we are not going to give rise to or encourage behaviors, I insist, that have a clear anti-Semitic stink.

This has no place in today's societies.

Madrid is ready to immediately sign a brotherhood agreement”, indicated the mayor.

The break in relations between Barcelona and Israel has caused an earthquake with its government partner, the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC).

Laia Bonet, deputy mayor for the PSC, verbalized this Wednesday her party's disagreement with Colau's decision and harshly criticized the mayoress.

“What happened today is very serious,” she said.

The vice mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, unlike Almeida, has remained silent.

Colau indicated this Wednesday that his decision - "complicated and difficult" - is supported by more than a hundred entities and by the signature of 4,000 residents.

What's more, she sent a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, where he explains the reasons for the measure.

The wording of the letter alludes to the "violence suffered by the Palestinian people" and reproaches him for the fact that the harassment has lasted "for more than 70 years."

Colau's announcement has also occurred in the middle of another announcement.

Coincidence or not, Isabel Díaz Ayuso will travel this weekend to Israel, where, as her team has announced in a statement, she will meet with the country's president, Isaac Herzog, as well as the country's political leaders and businessmen, without further details of who are these leaders and businessmen.

In 2021, Madrid was the Spanish region that attracted the greatest investment from Israel, with 60% of the capital coming to Spain from that country, according to data from the regional government.

The trip of the Madrid president coincides with the health demonstration scheduled for this Sunday in the capital of Spain and as a protest against Ayuso's management of this matter in recent months.

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