An absolute majority does not collapse in a day, nor in a week, nor in a month, nor in a year. Changing the one headed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso in Madrid, says a high-ranking PSOE source, requires the president to make some mistake. And this Thursday the opposition arrives at the Assembly convinced that the first false step has already been taken and that the decision for the leader to take on the defense of her partner ―investigated for alleged tax fraud― is an opportunity. The PSOE and Más Madrid do not care that the PP manages a survey paid for by the PP that consolidates and expands its absolute majority. Nor do they care that Ayuso retains an enviable pull among voters. Juan Lobato, from the PSOE, and Manuela Bergerot, from Más Madrid, use the plenary session to denounce that the problem is in the concatenation of controversies that affect those close to the leader and in the fact that the president dedicates time and public resources to managing the crisis of the case of her boyfriend.
“She only thinks about herself!” Lobato complains while the rest of the deputies remain silent. “When you look at you, you see, on the one hand, collaborators who defame, who insult, who threaten the media,” begins the leader of the Madrid socialists, referring to the president's chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, and his hoaxes against journalists: “And, on the other hand, you see a luxury apartment, the Maseratis, the tax frauds…”, he adds, to finish: “Mrs. Ayuso, you no longer govern, you alone “He tries to hide his problems.”
It is a brief intervention that touches on multiple aspects of the controversy that affects Alberto González Amador, the businessman with whom the president lives, whom the Treasury and the Prosecutor's Office accuse of having allegedly tried to defraud more than 350,951 euros in his corporate tax. company Maxwell Cremona, which multiplied its sales by six during the worst of the pandemic thanks to its intermediation work in the purchase and sale of gloves and masks.
Because Lobato alludes to the fact that the president's chief of staff and her communications team, paid from public budgets, have been involved in the management of the political and reputational crisis caused by an individual. Also, that the president faced the controversy on her own initiative and in the setting of a press conference of an institutional nature – “there is a shady case of all the powers of the State against my partner,” she said -, since it corresponded to a Council of government. Or that there have been meetings between the businessman, who will have to investigate in May, and the hard core of the president. But there is more. Much more.
“We already know that Quirónsalud has nothing to do with Quironprevención,” says Manuela Bergerot, the leader of Más Madrid, ironically, in reference to the regional government's attempt to differentiate the company that manages four public hospitals, and receives billions from the Administration. , from the company that was González Amador's main client, despite the fact that both belong to the same group. “The ground floor has nothing to do with the attic above either,” she explains about the house in which the businessman and the politician live together. “And no, being a fraudster's lawyer is not the same as being president, which is what Madrid needs.”
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Ayuso, from tweet to tweet
Ayuso smiles at all that. Compared to previous sessions, in which he sought a head-on clash, this time he uses irony, and responds from tweet to tweet, with phrases constructed as if he were thinking about social networks and television news, more than about the parliamentary debate. “The next time I look for a partner, I will ask them for advice, I don't know if I will have to find a Finnish cloistered nun, let's see if they don't look for a plot for me,” he launches, causing uncontrollable laughter from his second in the PP. , Alfonso Serrano, who met with Gonzalez Amador last week.
“This week, in Got Talent, a three,” he says to Lobato, since for many plenary sessions he has been hinting that the future of the leader of the Madrid socialists is in danger, and that there is an open casting call to replace him. “A lot of peace in Gaza, where no one has asked him to speak, a lot of war here to take a photo dressed as Balay among bones and realize that they were not even his own,” he says, mixing the proposal to recognize Palestine as a State, launched by Pedro Sánchez, with his visit to the forensic team that works in the Cuelgamuros Valley, where he dressed in a white jumpsuit.
These are just some examples of the president's interventions, who take the opportunity to announce a new incentive of 500 euros per month starting in May for all doctors in health centers that are difficult to cover. Because the wheels of Madrid continue to require attention while the controversy that affects the president's partner grows, who will declare himself under investigation for the alleged commission of two crimes of tax fraud and another of forgery in a commercial document.
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