Ridiculous PP: they voted against a Más Madrid proposal without knowing it was a carbon copy of their own.
The left-wing party presented in the Madrid Assembly a text identical to one of the Popular Party's in the Senate.
BarcelonaThe PP has long been entrenched in a trench, firing at (almost) anything that doesn't come from its ranks. So much so that in the Madrid Assembly, the Popular Party (PP) harshly criticized and voted against a text identical to the one they themselves had presented in the Senate.
It all began with an initiative addressing ways to combat heat waves, presented by Más Madrid in the Assembly in December and which reached the plenary session this Thursday. PP deputy Sergio Brabezo attacked the text, asserting in the regional chamber that the initiative is "based on panic, alert, and social alarm." He also attempted to establish a relationship between the number of heat waves and the political leanings of the state government.
The surprise in the plenary session came when Pablo Padilla, a deputy for Más Madrid, revealed that he had wanted to do an "exercise" to see "how sectarian [the Popular Party] was," and explained that the text replicated point by point points 3, 4, 5, and 6 of a replacement amendment he presented on November 2. Thus, for seven minutes, the Popular Party articulated a broad, convincing critique of a text they themselves had drafted.
"You've made the biggest fool of yourself ever in this room," Padilla told Brabezo, who described the situation as "shameful" and, amid laughter from the Más Madrid faction, sought to point out that Ayuso's party is "incapable" of going ahead. Also laughing, Vox MP Íñigo Enríquez seemed perplexed by the situation: "Did I criticize your initiative because it was weak and you copied it from the PP?" he exclaimed.
In his final reply, Brabezo said that Más Madrid's actions exemplified "the way the left deals with data and seriousness." While Padilla showed him both documents with four identical points, Brabezo tried to justify himself by saying that "agreeing on votes does not mean agreeing on their ideology," and used the "don't get nervous" wildcard on several occasions.