Benidorm's PSOE Demands Mazón to Dismiss González de Zárate Following Les Corts Uproar

El heated debate that took place yesterday in the Les Corts plenary session, where the 'popular' deputy José Ramón González de Zárate, also a councillor of Benidorm City Council, played a significant role by provoking the socialist bench with his remarks towards Minister Diana Morant, whom he referred to as a 'poodle', and the Government Delegate, Pilar Bernabé, whom he called a 'rat trap'; has today found its local echo, with the socialist spokesperson in the tourist capital, Cristina Escoda, demanding Mazón 'immediately dismiss' González de Zárate 'from all his duties'.

The intervention of the Water Cycle and Parks and Gardens councillor of Benidorm in the Les Corts plenary has been the political talk of Thursday morning in his city, and as expected, the socialist spokesperson, Cristina Escoda, has been highly critical of her corporation colleague.

Escoda has demanded 'the immediate dismissal of the PP regional deputy and government councillor in the city, José Ramón González de Zárate, after he gravely insulted the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, and the Government Delegate in Valencia, Pilar Bernabé, yesterday in the Valencian Parliament'.

The local opposition leader has strongly condemned 'the insults' stating that 'not everything is acceptable in politics' and, therefore, has expressed, on behalf of the local PSPV-PSOE, that 'we expect his boss, Mr. Mazón, to act and remove him from all his duties'.

Following this, Escoda did not hold back in her remarks regarding González de Zárate and also raised the tone by stating that 'this individual cannot continue representing Benidorm in Les Corts for another minute' because, she emphasized, 'he is a disgrace to the city'.

The socialist leader has highlighted that the 'shameful attitude and lamentable words' of González de Zárate from yesterday, which 'reek of an unbearable machismo, are a small sample of what we have been enduring in Benidorm for many years'.

Very angry, Escoda added, referring to the 'popular' deputy, that what happened yesterday in Les Corts 'is his natural state. Always with insults, lies, and using very bad manners to deal with the rest of the corporation councillors and, worse, the residents who question his management on social media'.

Likewise, she has censured 'the disastrous management of González de Zárate at the helm of the Mobility or Street Cleaning departments in past legislatures, where he was unable to tender the expired contracts for waste and the traffic light network, or the negligent continuity of the former parking concessionaire of l'Aigüera, which received a blow from the Consell Jurídic Consultiu' and for which, as they now do with Mazón, the socialists demanded his dismissal from the mayor.

'At that time the mayor did nothing and we are now waiting to see if he will come out to censure the words and behaviour of his councillor or will be complicit in his actions', Escoda reiterated, who also criticised that from the Benidorm Popular Party 'they continue to defend Mazón with that vehemence that could be seen yesterday not only by all Valencians but also by all Spaniards'.

'They sheltered him in the city from day one when he couldn't go out on the streets in Valencia and now they allow themselves to insult the political opponent and give 'brother-in-law' lessons to defend the management of their party leader, who abandoned his people in the worst moments of their history', she indicated.

Finally, the socialist spokesperson highlighted that the behaviour of the PP deputy and councillor 'is not worthy of a public representative' and censured that 'his party colleagues cheered him yesterday instead of censuring his words'.