“Ridiculous”, “shut up, you’re nicer” and “go to hell” were some of the sexist insults that Damián Guijarro, PP councilor in Manzanares el Real, hurled at another Más Madrid city councilor, Patricia Ibáñez, during last Thursday’s plenary session, without so far having apologized or been given any sanctions. The PSOE of the Community of Madrid asked the regional government chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso to withdraw the report, but the Executive did not comment. The PP of Madrid and Guijarro himself have refused to make statements on this episode, which is not the first with sexist tones in which this councilor is involved.
The Madrid PSOE made public this Wednesday on social networks a fragment of the recording of the Plenary in which Guijarro is seen shouting from the opposite side of the table to Ibáñez. “We were talking about how the Castella works affect traffic and the need for buses to go directly from Colmenar Viejo to Príncipe Pío and (Damián Guijarro) started attacking me saying that they had already improved the bus stops,” explains Ibáñez. Then the counselor starts hurling insults.
“Ridiculous”, “shut up because you’re nicer”, “fuck you”.
It is the sexist attack of the PP councilor, Damián Guijarro, in Manzanares el Real.
He is indecent and a repeat offender.
Let Ayuso ask for the report NOW. pic.twitter.com/IJyO77SV7M
— PSOE Madrid (@psoe_m) November 19, 2025
Although mayor Alicia Gallego (PSOE), who governs in a coalition of left-wing parties, calls for order and demands “respect” and moderation in customs, Guijarro ignores her and continues to speak above her words. “The worst thing is that people from his group (the PP) never say anything and that’s why they keep happening,” says Ibáñez.
“This sexist and misogynistic behavior is unacceptable. And it is unacceptable that no one in his party has come out to recriminate it,” says a spokesperson for Más Madrid in the region. “If that wretch does something like that in public, imagine what he doesn’t do in private at home and what he hasn’t done with the women who have passed through his life.”
Lorena Morales, a PSOE member of the Madrid Assembly, complains that no one is “putting an end” to this type of behavior. “If you have an angry or sexist councilor, you remove his criminal record or kick him out of the party, but if you shut up and laugh at him, he will never stop doing it,” Morales says. Although the Socialists have called for both the withdrawal of the report and expulsion from the party, the regional government has not commented.
“The example of Ayuso shines through and we see that there are no consequences. He (Damián Guijarro) has a good school to learn from with a president who says that “she likes fruit”, who tells women to go elsewhere to have abortions and who the other day called us poodles”, adds Morales.
This is not the first time Guijarro has hurled sexist insults at a city councilor. Last July, during a plenary session in which the public tender for a program for children and families of the city council was discussed, the PP councilor addressed another councilor, Gema Revenga, in this tone to complain that providing this benefit “was throwing money away” because it was a whim of the first deputy mayor, Fernando Román. In addition to calling her a “communist counselor,” he said that she needed to buy “knee pads” so that “calluses wouldn’t grow on her knees.”
Even then nothing happened. But even more than that, Ibáñez herself says that last February, while they were discussing an environmental proposal in another plenary session, Guijarro hurled more insults at her, such as saying that she was “useless” and that she “didn’t even know how to manage the refrigerator in her house.”
For both the PSOE and Más Madrid, these overlooking sexist attitudes are a further example of how the Madrid PP does not care about equality. The most recent case, he underlines, is that of the mayor of Alpedrete, Juan Fernández, who denied that the sexist crime that occurred last weekend in that locality, in which a man killed his wife with 50 stab wounds and then committed suicide, is gender violence. “He loved his wife very much” and “it wasn’t out of hatred” were some of Fernández’s denialist phrases in this regard.
“They remain silent and tolerate (the PP) and that dynamic of constant insult continues,” says Lorena Morales. “What can you expect if we don’t even have an equality law, which even exists for these things. The fact that we are the only community not to have one means that there is no way to stop sexist attacks, which are an expression of inequality in politics.”
“It is the example of a macho man who is overwhelmed because there are women in politics and who can only use violence to try to impose themselves. He is a despicable species, in danger of extinction, with his back against the wall and who knows that the world has changed and that no woman will be intimidated by it”, they add from Más Madrid.
