The wound opened by the deaths of more than 5,000 elderly in Madrid residences during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic festers this Thursday in the Assembly, where the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, faces a heartbreaking testimony. Just before the three left-wing parties register an investigation commission on what happened -which, predictably, will not go ahead because it does not have the support of PP and Vox-, the spokespersons for Podemos (Alejandra Jacinto) and PSOE (Juan Lobato) agree during the plenary session to read him the letter from the daughter of one of the deceased. “It’s not that we don’t want to reopen the wound, Mr. [Enrique] Ossorio, it is that we have not closed it”, hit those words with the signature of Ángeles Caballero, columnist of The confidentialscandalized by the declarations of the regional vice president that the families have already overcome the deaths of their loved ones.
Ayuso, apparently undaunted, shows political reflexes: she asks for the signer’s contact, while trying to shelter from the storm unleashed by the opposition, which in the chamber and outside, with her present, and without her, becomes the speaker of the pain of those relatives, who seek answers without finding them.
“There is an institutional abandonment of families,” complains Mónica García, spokesperson for Más Madrid. “We have to give them an answer,” she claims. “We want to investigate what happened to the deceased during the pandemic, how it is possible that we are the only region in Europe that had a protocol that prevented giving due assistance,” she continues. “Here there were political orders that made the elderly die in an undignified way,” she adds. “It would be a scandal for the Table to boycott the debate,” he adds, referring to the fact that the left takes for granted that the body that regulates the day-to-day running of the Assembly will reject the investigation commission, since it is controlled by the PP, which in the In the past, it has already taken advantage of regulatory reasons to avoid the debate and vote of similar initiatives in the plenary session of the Chamber.
Juan Lobato, the spokesman for the PSOE, expresses himself along the same lines: “Mrs. Ayuso, out of decency, apologize,” she claims. “I hope that the PP does not have the cowardice to stop administratively [en la Mesa] a necessary debate, without ambition of revenge, to find out what happened so that it does not happen again. That it be processed, debated and discussed in the Assembly”, he asks, still scandalized that the PP has avoided with its parliamentary majority, against the criteria of the rest of the groups, including Vox, that Ossorio’s disapproval be debated for his words about the residences.
political message
All these difficulties reflect that the registration of the request for an investigation commission on what happened in the residences is a gesture of great political significance. It does not matter that several similar requests have already been rejected in the Table. It does not matter that it is impossible for the initiative to go ahead as long as the PP and Vox maintain their rejection. And knowing that the commission would only have time for a few sessions, if created, has little influence, since the Assembly will be dissolved in March by the electoral call for May 2023.
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What weighs, the strategists of the left think, is that a weighty political message is being launched: by uniting all the progressive formations despite these difficulties, their commitment to clarifying what happened in this legislature, the next or The next.
“There were 7,291 deaths in the residences, as if we have to register this commission 7,291 times so that this does not happen again,” warns Alejandra Jacinto, from Podemos.
Or what is the same: More Madrid, PSOE and United We Can do not want the passage of time to avoid clarifying the political responsibilities for deaths in residences during the first wave of the pandemic. And they hope that the Table does not stop the initiative in its initiative on Monday, so that it can at least be debated in plenary, where the majority that make up the PP and Vox would condemn it.
It is the culmination of a day in which Ayuso has dedicated himself to haggling over his responsibility in managing the health crisis, since he blames the Government of Pedro Sánchez for the worst chapters in the fight against the virus. To deny, the conservative leader denies even the existence of the triage protocols that prevented the elderly from being transferred to hospitals in the worst of the first wave: “It was not applied in any way.” And even she clashes with Vox, her only possible parliamentary ally.
“About the residences, I don’t know why they have begun to give me lessons in humanity,” the regional president snaps at the Vox spokeswoman, Rocío Monasterio, who on Tuesday withdrew the proposal of a study commission on the residences accusing the left of acting with “grudge”, and the PP, of “lack of humanity”. “She has asked me zero questions about residences since I am president of the Community,” adds Ayuso. “I don’t know, therefore, who lacks humanity.”
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