There are things that are so scary that they are not mentioned. On Monday, when asked to analyze the results of the European elections, Rocío Monasterio, the leader of Vox, refers to The Party is Over (SALF), her new electoral rival, as “the party you are telling me about.” On Wednesday, when asked for her opinion on the verdict at the polls, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the president of Madrid, barely speaks, in general, about “extreme right” groups in Europe. And this Thursday, in the regional Assembly, Juan Lobato, of the PSOE, accuses the conservative baroness of promoting the appearance of the ultra Alvise Pérez, whose group of MEPs will have three seats in the European Parliament, although, again, he does not mention it because of his name. It is a paradoxical situation: no one mentions SALF explicitly, so as not to fuel the project of this agitator specialized in social networks, but at the same time everyone accuses his traditional political rival of having fueled it.
“You are taking the presidency of the Community of Madrid into the mud,” Lobato snaps at Ayuso during the Government control session held in the regional Assembly. “Every day,” he emphasizes. “She will go down in history as the one who insulted,” he adds. “You have created a monster,” he accuses her, referring to Alvise’s voters’ platform. And she diagnoses: “There will always be someone who shouts more, who insults more, who hates more than you. (…) Still aspires to lead that space [político] so dangerous. You are wrong. If you continue to feed him, the only thing he will be able to aspire to is to be a simple opening act for a party that is going to end badly. “You can only beat populists, extremists and anti-democrats with democracy, proposals and dialogue.”
But the thing doesn’t end there. With Ayuso focused on attacking the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez – “we are going to be the scourge of corruption. Here in the Community of Madrid, zero fear,” he says—or in confronting Vox—“they have become Sánchez’s alibi,” he says—Lobato calls the press to insist on the same argument… without mentioning, again, to SALF or Alvise.
Thus, the leader of the Madrid socialists, questioned internally by a sector of the party after the result of the European elections, assures that the success of the ultras has been favored by Ayuso’s speech. That his “let Txapote vote for you” opened the door for them. That this has caused them to “start eating it by the feet” electorally. And that Ayuso must rectify, in his opinion, to avoid what is happening in France, where the traditional right-wing party has broken in two, and has dismissed its leader, Éric Ciotti, for wanting to agree with Le Pen.
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And yet, the main politician in the first line who has been mentioning SALF is Sánchez, who for example did so at a rally at the end of the European campaign, or on several occasions on Wednesday, during his speech in Congress of the deputies and during an interview on TVE.
For the left, Alvise’s emergence has the advantage of atomizing the right-wing electorate and mobilizing the progressive electorate. For the right, he opens the possibility of mobilizing citizens who previously did not go to the polls, although not concentrating the vote does not usually bring good demographic news. The result is that Vox has reached out to SALF; that the PP has found a new party to its right; and that the PSOE has a new argument to encourage its voters. Although almost no one mentions him by name.
Something that is starting to happen with “Madrid” in the regional Assembly. Just as Ayuso spoke on Wednesday at the press conference of the Government Council, where he gave answers to questions about regional management to the Executive spokesperson, this Thursday the control session once again focuses on issues that transcend regional policy.
There is criticism of Yolanda Díaz for Sumar’s results. Broadsides against Sánchez, like every Thursday. But from Madrid, almost nothing, just the references to health and mental health that Manuela Bergerot (Más Madrid) makes in her question to Díaz Ayuso; or the youth employment plan in which Lobato is involved.
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