This Monday, Isabel Díaz Ayuso justified her refusal to attend the meeting called by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the Moncloa. On the one hand, the leader of the PP of Madrid assures that the round of bilateral meetings organized by the central Executive “is of no use” and insists that if these meetings had any benefit for the Community of Madrid she “would not hesitate” to attend. .
On the other hand, Ayuso maintains that she has been “subjected to a smear campaign at the highest level for five years” and with “all the powers of the State” against her. As stated in the statement released by her team, in which they confirmed that the regional president would not meet with the President of the Government, the Madrid parliamentarian assures that Sánchez’s statements last week in Congress and in Brussels are a turning point. She regrets having been “defamed.”
Last week, in the Lower House, the president assured that the PP’s corruption ranges from “Ayuso’s a to Zaplana’s zeta.” Following this question, the president replied hours later in the Madrid Assembly that it is not “the a of Ábalos to the zeta of Zapatero”, but the “be of Berni, of Barrabés and of Begoña”. The president’s wife is “another one who is moving forward,” he launched, using the same informal expression that Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, his chief of staff, used to announce the indictment of the State Attorney General a week in advance.
In an intervention before the media, the Madrid president confirmed that she already explained her position on the bilateral meetings with Sánchez in the last National Executive Committee, in which she expressed “for ten minutes” the reasons why she “did not see with good eyes” participate in the round of meetings that the President of the Government has organized with the regional presidents at the Moncloa.
The focus of these meetings is on regional financing after complaints about the economic agreement for Catalonia and with other issues on the table such as immigration, infrastructure, investments or the territorial debate. The rest of the regional leaders of the PP are going to meet Sánchez, in the face of these discrepancies, Ayuso assures that “he totally respects it.” However, he maintains that these meetings “go against the interests of Spain and, therefore, of Madrid directly.”
Furthermore, in her speech the Madrid president wanted to defend the actions of her partner, Alberto González Amador, a confessed tax fraudster. “I want to make it very clear again that Ayuso’s boyfriend does not go to Puerta del Sol to do business, something that the president’s wife Begoña Gómez does,” she herself stated about her partner.
He defends that González Amador “is being used as a political hostage” and again attacks the general secretary of the PSOE for referring to his partner. “The President of the Government cannot call a citizen a criminal for being the romantic partner of a political adversary and have this come for free,” he adds.
Ayuso maintains that these attacks are directed at her personal environment “because obviously they cannot” defeat her at the polls. And he continued: “They do it with everything and, of course, with my partner. They have called me a murderer, a genocidal, crazy, corrupt, corrupt… I have been there for five years and not just anyone does it, the President of the Government does it, 22 ministers and all the senior socialist officials who have been forced to do the same “It doesn’t matter which corner of Spain they are in.”
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