The tragic circumstances of the storm in Valencia occupied practically the entire political debate this Thursday in the Madrid Assembly between the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the opposition. The session began with a certain solemnity with the reading of a unanimous institutional declaration in solidarity with the victims, but it immediately descended into the usual ravine of disqualifications and gross accusations, this time with humorous intent, from the regional president, who joked with Más Madrid’s concern about climate change using Íñigo Errejón, reported for sexual assault.
“Are you asking me about the weather or the climax? If your party knows anything, it is about warming up,” he said to the party’s spokesperson, Manuela Bergerot, after avoiding condemning Sunday’s attack on the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
Week after week, the spokesperson for the Madrid PSOE, Juan Lobato, tries to convince the PP to lower spirits and provide the party discussion with a minimum of courtesy. He never succeeds. Today he tried again in line with the dana, which focused his entire intervention. “People who hear politicians insult and attack feel frustration and anger,” he lamented. Lobato even praised Ayuso’s past attitudes, such as when he criticized the attacks on PSOE people’s houses, to ask him to now condemn “the attempted lynching of the kings of Spain, the president of the Government and the president of the Valencian Community.” “You know the influence your words have,” he pleaded.
Ayuso did not relent and executed one of his convoluted discursive pirouettes, linking the censorship of the incidents in Paiporta on Sunday with his own management of the pandemic: “The mud that you do not want to be spread in Valencia, do not put it in the residences in Madrid”.
More belligerent, Manuela Bergerot also referred to the situation in the Valencian Community to defend public services and remember that taxes “pay for excavators and ambulances” like those working these days in the area. He also referred to the resignation of Íñigo Errejón, overshadowed in the media by the floods in Valencia last week. “Doing politics in our spaces is incompatible with exercising sexist violence, no matter who falls.” Then he asked Ayuso about the measures against climate change and was upset that he asked for an aid decree for those affected by DANA when it had already been approved.
Climatic Macedonia
Ayuso responded with a salad of generalities about the climate issue. His government defends “energy efficiency, polluting as little as possible, public transportation,” but does not join the “lobbies,” in general, nor the “climate beach bars,” and criticized measures such as the order to turn off the shop windows early—when fuel became more expensive due to the war in Ukraine—or that bike lanes prevent customers from parking near businesses, and then defend nuclear energy. And to weave this question into the Errejón case, he went on to read the jokes about “warming up”, “climate” and “climax” and speculated, always in a joking tone, that the ‘yes means yes’ law would benefit the resigned spokesperson. by Sumar.
The Madrid president did avoid her usual attacks on Sánchez, as well as avoiding defending the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, whom she did not mention. Vox was already there for the barrage. The President of the Government “is the biggest culprit,” accused the spokesperson, Isabel Pérez Moñino-Aranda, for whom the “2030 agenda” is also, inescapably and in all circumstances, behind it. The PP spokesman, Carlos Díaz-Pache, even protested that the president declared on Tuesday that he was fine after the attack suffered. “It’s narcissism,” he objected.
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