During the 22 October plenary debate on housing-rights protests and the right to strike, Jimena González linked the discussion to Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s response to a protest camp at Puerta del Sol. The Más Madrid deputy asked whether the regional president would prefer demonstrators to abandon the peaceful encampment and follow what González called the “vía francesa”.
On 6 November, the Assembly’s Mesa opened a disciplinary file after the PP complained that González’s reference to the “French route” alluded to demonstrators entering the Real Casa de Correos, the seat of Madrid’s regional government, and setting it on fire. González had described the housing protest as “totalmente pacífica y cívica” and framed her remark as irony while defending the right to strike.
Assembly president Enrique Ossorio called the words extremely serious and said they could be understood as an incitement to violence. He asked González to withdraw them; she declined. Más Madrid rejects the PP’s interpretation, arguing that González did not call for the building to be burned and that her comparison was ironic and taken out of context. These competing interpretations form part of the disciplinary case, not a final finding of misconduct.
The dispute concerns parliamentary conduct under Article 33.3 of the Assembly’s rules, which covers conduct considered an attack on the chamber’s dignity or a breach of parliamentary discipline, order or courtesy. The investigation was assigned to PP deputy María Josefa Martínez de la Fuente. González is entitled to be heard and to present a defence during the proceedings; opening the file does not itself impose a sanction.
Possible penalties include a formal warning or suspension of certain parliamentary rights for up to 30 days. Any sanction would require a further decision by the Assembly. The disciplinary process is separate from the consumer-tax questions addressed in this earlier report on Bizum transfer labels.
If the file results in a sanction, it would be the third of its kind during the legislature. The previous cases involved former Vox spokesperson Rocío Monasterio, sanctioned in 2024 for voting twice, and Más Madrid deputy Pablo Padilla, suspended after mimicking a shooting during a plenary session.
