When presidents don’t talk to each other | Inmaculada Sánchez’s opinion on Ayuso and Sánchez

When the presidents of institutions as relevant as the government of the nation or that of one of the most important autonomies in the country do not speak to each other, it is the citizen who ends up paying for it. When the highest representatives of Spain and the Community of Madrid are not able to hold an official interview to present and discuss their positions, no matter how far apart they may be, it is because the most essential thing about politics is failing.

It was Isabel Díaz Ayuso who has refused to respond to Pedro Sánchez’s invitation to talk about financing and taxation because, according to her, it would only serve to whitewash the pact between socialists and republicans that grants Catalonia a kind of fiscal agreement. And also, because the president is dedicated to defaming her. The point is that The rest of the regional presidents of the PP are going to Moncloa to tell Sánchez, face to face, exactly the same thing, that he does not agree with this singular distribution of the money that he intends, and discuss it with him. That’s what these meetings should be for. And Núñez Feijóo, although “he understands her”, has also said that he would have attended.

The long history of affronts, insults and disqualifications between Díaz Ayuso and Sánchez began years ago and it has had the Madrid president as the main protagonist. But the confrontation has soured in recent months, reaching a risky personal level. From the “I like fruit”converted by Ayuso into an anti-sanchista slogan, until “confessed criminal”wielded by Sánchez against the president’s partner, there have been too many knives thrown and their sharpness excessive.

Both Sánchez and Ayuso are seeing their personal and family environment affected by the political battle but they cannot react with the aggressiveness of a school bully.

Both Sánchez and Ayuso They are seeing their personal and family environment affected by the political battle but they cannot react with the aggressiveness of a school bully. The president of all the people of Madrid must be able to meet with the president of all the Spaniards, whether she likes it or not. The dignity of the position and the institutions transcends the person who occupies them and no matter how polarized and tense the political scene is, we citizens deserve politicians to do their job.