A Madrid councilor resigned this Thursday after, in a public meeting, he slapped the mayor’s president, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, three times in the face, who accused him of violence.
The socialist councilor Daniel Viondi, after speaking on the platform, went to the place where Martínez-Almeida (Popular Party, PP) was to hand him a document and then slapped him three times.
According to the mayor, the councilor said to him the phrase “you’re wrong,” in a defiant tone, while touching his face with the palm of his hand.
“Mr. Viondi touched my face three times in a threatening tone,” he said in the plenary session of the Martínez-Almeida town hall, after asking the president of the assembly to speak.
“You are violent in plenary sessions, Mr. Viondi, and I will not allow it. Don’t ever touch my face again. Never,” he added, asking for measures from the PSOE leadership because “you cannot touch” a person in such a way. as the councilor did.
Councilor Daniel Viondi continued arguing with the mayor after returning to his seat in the plenary session and ended up being expelled from the meeting for disobeying the president of the council.
The spokesperson for the socialist group in the chamber of the Spanish capital, former minister Reyes Maroto, apologized to Martínez-Almeida before the plenary session.
Then, on social networks, the leader of the Madrid PSOE, Juan Lobato, announced Viondi’s departure from the chamber and also apologized to Martínez-Almeida.
“The party will make the corresponding decisions,” he added.
The councilor himself ended up announcing his resignation, in a post on the social network X (formerly Twitter), and also apologized to the mayor.
Apologies to Mr. @AlmeidaPP_ for what happened at the end of my intervention, when I handed over a document and the verbal exchange between them.
If they were transmitted through Mr. Carabante, I could not do it directly.
It was a mistake that I really regret.
-Dani Viondi (@Viondi) September 28, 2023
“I apologize to Mr. Almeida for what happened. (…) It was a mistake that I very much regret,” wrote Daniel Viondi.
The episode occurred after an intervention by Viondi in which he defended that a space in a neighborhood of the city should be named after the soccer player Jenni Hermoso, who accused the former president of the Spanish Federation, Luis Rubiales, of having given her unfair treatment. spoiled. Kiss in the World Cup final that the Spanish team won in Australia last August.
Source: TSF
