Ayuso accuses Isla of being "envious" of Madrid: "Stop stifling Catalan businesses."

MadridIf Salvador Isla visits Madrid and attacks Isabel Díaz Ayuso's model, which he contrasts with that of Catalonia, it is a matter of "envy." This is the diagnosis the Madrid president presented four days after the conference the president of the Generalitat gave to prominent members of the political and economic establishment in the Spanish capital. "Stop suffocating Catalan companies," Ayuso countered this Monday at a breakfast news conference organized by Europa Press. The Popular Party president defended her tax cuts and urged Isla to do the same instead of trying to reverse the policies that "work" in Madrid. "If they force me to implement the policies that are ruining Catalonia, I will also do badly," she said.

According to Ayuso, an attempt is being made to impose an "artificial rupture" between Catalonia and Madrid, when what she advocates is for both communities to "grow together." On the contrary, Isla and the Socialists are promoting a "nationalist discourse of grievance," she lamented. For Ayuso, this is about "seeking hatred in Madrid" by passing off "barbarities," in her opinion, such as the forgiveness of part of the FLA debt or the distribution of migrant minors, as a measure of "coexistence or solidarity." "And they expect us in Madrid to remain silent [...]. You have to be very bold," she continued, warning that this strategy is turning into a "monster." "If you're not with them, you're unsupportive," she stressed.

The leader of the PP in Madrid has framed this shift within a widespread problem in the state due to Pedro Sánchez's leadership. In Ayuso's opinion, a "regime of terror" has been imposed. "Anything close to Madrid, or any company, ambassador, artist, or journalist who doesn't openly say they support Sánchez, is persecuted, attacked, or expelled," he said. Shortly after, at a meeting of the PP executive committee attended by Ayuso, Alberto Núñez Feijóo joined the attack on Sánchez, calling him a "zombie president." The PP leader demanded that he call a general policy debate to "depict his solitude" and that he present a budget.

Defense of the Mazón Pact

Feijóo has claimed, without mentioning the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, who was absent from the meeting this Monday in Génova, that the PP is "a party resoundingly free to reach agreements "I don't think it followed the fiat of the món," he concluded. Ayuso has pointed out that she has also made a pact with Vox in The passat: "I'm here," he said. The leader of the Madrid PP has stated that he is constantly focusing on Mazón and has stated that his execution "will continue" and the Valencian Country "is recovering."

Tot i això, Ayuso She has distanced herself from the policies defended by Mazón regarding the distribution of immigrant minors. While the Madrid president has already warned against "mass immigration" and the policies of the Spanish government, she has said that she will abide by and follow whatever comes her way, although she will try to change the distribution criteria, which assign the largest number to Madrid, if necessary, even taking it to court. "We must comply with the law, regardless of what other parties say," she said, also criticizing the PSOE for opposing sending them to a center in Fuenlabrada, a municipality governed by the Socialists, located in an industrial estate.

"Inversion of truth" with the residences

One of the issues that most concerns Ayuso is the management of nursing homes during Covid-19. caused at least 7,219 deathsAccording to the Madrid president, she is the victim of a campaign "to invert the truth," and she questioned why, five years later, what happened is being "distorted." To say that people were allowed to die on political orders is to be "children", he argued. Just this Monday The Country reveals that the Ayuso government delayed access to a list with the phone numbers of 1,798 volunteer doctors compiled by the Madrid Medical Association to the senior official responsible for medicalizing nursing homes, the director general of social and health coordination, Carlos Mur.

Ayuso's executive received it on March 18, 2020, and Mur obtained it on April 20, a month later, when he asked the collegiate body for help. Between these two dates, a massacre broke out in the nursing homes due to the failure to refer sick elderly people to hospitals and the fact that doctors did not come to treat them. According to the newspaper, Mur expressed that it was "incomprehensible" that it was hidden from him and that he feared that no one had been called. The list had been in the hands of the general director of human resources of the Madrid health service (Sermas), Raquel Sampedro. A source cited by The Country He recalls that Mur had been asking for people for "a long time," but that "hospitals had preference for receiving those doctors."