More Madrid has appealed the decision of the PP of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to veto the appearance in the regional Assembly of the epidemiologist María Victoria Zunzunegui, an expert from the truth commission in the residences who refused to appear in the Chamber considering that it would end talking about a different topic than the one that had led her to be summoned. The argument, pronounced by the president of the Family and Social Affairs commission of the PP, and recorded black on white in the minutes of the meeting that certified the inadmissibility of the initiative, involves prejudging the content of an intervention before it is implemented. has produced, which is why it introduces “an ideological” and “divinatory” bias in the decision, according to the opposition. For this reason, Más Madrid demands that the resolution be reconsidered, and that Zunzunegui, a retired professor from the University of Montreal and member of the truth commission, be summoned, which concluded that 4,000 deaths could have been avoided in the residences during the worst of the pandemic.
This is how Ayuso’s PP argued the veto of Zunzunegui: “Mr. President [de la comisión de Familia y Asuntos Sociales, Miguel Ángel Rumayor] indicates that he has received a letter from the truth commission that leads him to think that the person appearing, being a member of the truth commission, is going to use the appearance to talk about an object other than that for which he requested the appearance, as it says has happened on previous occasions in the processing of these appearances.”
It is not a casual reference. The conservatives cling to the precedent of the appearance of Carmen López, representative of the Residence Tide and of the Association for the Rights of the Elderly and their Familieswho in March threatened to leave without finishing her intervention when she was reprimanded for mentioning the deaths of 7,291 elderly people in nursing homes during the worst of the pandemic.
As the hearing had been called to talk about the current situation of the residences, and not about their past, the president of the commission, as full of reason as he was lacking in waist, asked the person appearing to stick to the topic for which he had been summoned. “If I can’t talk, I’m leaving,” she replied.
However, that same example now serves the opposition to dismantle the president’s decision to veto Zunzunegui: his responsibility is to organize the debate, as he did then, and ensure that it sticks to the topic in question, not to prejudge what will be said. before a single word is spoken. “As if he were Aramis Fuster,” a deputy ironically says.
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“The agreement reached by the Commission Board constitutes an unusual decision that contains no argument, motivation, or any legal justification,” says the letter in which Más Madrid demands reconsideration, to which EL PAÍS has accessed. “The seriousness of reaching this agreement in an unmotivated manner under a technical premise that must govern the function of the governing body of the Commission is a very serious fact,” he warns, arguing that what happened affects the rights of the deputies, which seems to imply the possibility of a future appeal to the Constitutional Court if the reconsideration request is unsuccessful.
“The affirmation [del presidente, al vetar a la compareciente por lo que pudiera decir] “It is extremely serious in showing, without any doubt, that its decision to reject the initiative is based on the political significance of the person invited to appear,” the letter argues. And he concludes: “The judgment that the Presidency carries out is not technical-legal, but purely ideological and its gravity is such that it involves issuing a resolution knowing its injustice.”
The appeal will be debated this Friday at the Parliament Table, and, where appropriate, on Monday at the committee table. It is a kind of return to the starting point: to get to this point, Zunzunegui’s appearance already had to overcome obstacles at the Assembly Table. This second veto of the PP, already at the Commission Table, has led this expert to the following conclusion, expressed in an interview with this newspaper: “If you don’t think like them, they will censor you.”
The truth commission, to which Zunzunegui belongs, was made up of relatives of residents, jurists and health experts, and made public in March a report on the deaths of 7,291 elderly in residences during the pandemic.
The most relevant conclusions of the document, based on hundreds of testimonies from affected people, relatives, and experts, pointed to an “inadequate” action by the regional government for restricting the number of referrals to hospitals during the worst of the pandemic. During the health crisis, the Community argued that the residences had been medicalized to guarantee the treatment of the elderly without the need for transfer, but the report maintains that the centers were not prepared for this task, neither in material nor in personnel. And he leaves this conclusion: “More than 4,000 people could have saved their lives.”
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