Jimenez Losantos is known throughout Spain as the bishops' star host in COPE radio. Known for his ultra right wing stances and bitter attacks on the left and anyone on the right that's not a hawk, it was no surprise that in 2006 he took on PP's Mayor of Madrid for his 'soft' positions in his radio show. Unfortunately for him, the Mayor, sued him for insults and defamation against his person.
Rajoy removed the Mayor out of the Congressional lists for the election, as I reported here a while ago, forced by the hardliners within PP, many close to Losantos, himself an influential figure in rigt wing circles in Spain. That was seen as a sign of weakness by Rajoy but he wasn't ready for the bombshell that follows...
Losantos has called Aguirre, President of the region of Madrid, Acebes, Secretary General of PP and Zaplana, official spokesperson for PP, to declare against Gallardon, the Mayor of Madrid, in court! Rajoy has fallen in his own dithering trap. He has let this nutter run freely for the sake of winning an election and now Losantos has got him into serious trouble. If these senior PP officials don't testify against Gallardon, Losantos will certainly retaliate, if they do they will be testifying against a member of their own party, and one proud of its internal cohesion as well.
How's Rajoy going to get out of this one? certainly not looking good. Hopefully they'll testify before election day...
Losantos's statement on air against Gallardon:
'The Mayor of Madrid doesn't want to know who kills people by the hundreds in his own city'
- Gallardon was Mayor at the time of the 2004 Madrid bombings, Losantos is the greatest exponent of the 'conspiracy theory' that blames Basque terrorism instead of Al-Qaeda for the massacre although the courts have ruled that it was Al-Qaeda alone that carried out the attacks.
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