Tuits de guillermo zapata

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In later news, the newspaper will harden the tone and will call Zapata’s tweets «insulting» in a front page headline and in an editorial it will ask for his resignation for «miserable tweets inciting racial hatred». In this editorial, El País compares Zapata’s tweets prior to his political life with the attitude of the Nazis of the SS and with the SMS between Bárcenas and Rajoy. That day when we learned about ‘Luis, be strong’, however, El País did not ask for Rajoy’s resignation but for «explanations»; days later, another editorial said: «Rajoy’s resignation, which only he could decide if he considers it appropriate, does not guarantee an orderly replacement of the leadership within his party» and warned of the danger of early elections that this could bring.

Carmena and other members of her team downplayed the controversy during those hours on Saturday and the mayor did not want to make statements. Podemos representatives Rafael Mayoral and Juan Carlos Monedero happened to be on La Sexta Noche and were the ones who improvisedly had to give the first reaction about Zapata, who is not a Podemos militant but precisely of the municipalist current with which they have negotiated hard to set up Ahora Madrid. Mayoral makes a first feint of defending him, but soon realizes the flammable material he has in his hands and soon goes on to describe Zapata’s tweets as «deplorable». «I have no words.»

Cuadrado’s and luis diaz’s goal at the weekend

Then, the film scriptwriter and historian of Ahora Madrid, wrote: «The Holocaust seems to me deplorable and terrible. I am not at all anti-Semitic, on the contrary, I have always been interested in Jewish culture and I have never liked its criminalization».

The Socialist Municipal Group in the City Council of the capital, which with its votes has allowed the entry of Ahora Madrid in the Mayor’s Office, has demanded «an immediate explanation» to the Governing Board.

«No racist attitude can be tolerated in the Villa de Madrid, a city in which zero tolerance with xenophobia must be declared,» expressed Antonio Miguel Carmona, the party spokesman, in an official statement. He subsequently also called for his resignation.

Controversial tweets of guillermo zapata, councilman of ahora madrid

At the moment it is PP, Ciudadanos and PSOE who have demanded explanations to the new mayor of Madrid Manuela Carmena. In fact the socialist Mar Espinar, party with which Ahora Madrid won the mayoralty of the capital, has requested the termination of the functions of Guillermo Zapata.

Yesterday, shortly after the controversy began, I explained through social networks the position I have always maintained: I strongly condemn any kind of racism and, of course, also anti-Semitism. I believe that the Jewish Holocaust is a lesson that humanity must never forget, so that it never happens again. Likewise, I sympathize with all the innocent people who have been victims of violence and have suffered the effects of these attacks ever since.

But I am also aware, and today more than ever, that this medium is conducive to decontextualization, disproportionate attacks, and the generation of controversies that spread like wildfire. The brevity of the messages, the speed with which they are generated, makes this possible.