Ayuso defends herself against the Madrid-based chalet she used: "I brought my food from home."
The president of Madrid spent two days with her family in a house in a town in the north of the community.
BarcelonaIsabel Díaz Ayuso went to spend two days in a chalet in the Community of Madrid located in the town of Rascafría, in the north of Madrid, with her family two weekends ago, according to reports. The CountryThe Madrid president had always criticized the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, for using "four palaces" that are part of the national heritage and are regularly used by Spanish presidents. This Monday, Ayuso came out to defend herself, asserting that her two days in Rascafría are not comparable to Sánchez's "Falcon, the trips to the Dominican Republic, and the four palaces." In fact, she asserted that at the Madrid chalet, Ayuso brought food from home, went shopping at the Covirán supermarket in the town, and also ate at a restaurant in Rascafría.
"I spent two days in a house and brought food from home, I had dinner at a restaurant in the town, and I shopped at Covirán with my own means," the Madrid president emphasized to the media. For Ayuso, all of this is part of "a personal attack" against her and presented it as an example of "a communist dictatorship." "I pay for my vacations, I pay for my plane tickets, I pay for my restaurants. Can the Prime Minister say the same? I pay for my house, and if I go to a public facility, it's bad. If I live with my partner, it's bad. If I pay for a hotel with my own money to manage the pandemic, it's bad," he stated. They would look for the plot on the bridge land, to see if the owner of the land is from who knows where. That's how they operate with me, in personal attacks for six years, no matter what I do."
The regional minister for the Environment, Agriculture, and the Interior, Carlos Novillo, explained that the chalet is part of a 453-hectare estate belonging to the General Directorate of Biodiversity of the Community of Madrid, which purchased it for 4.3 million euros, "a price practically identical to the price at which the State Heritage Department purchased the adjacent estate." "Will my trips to the Dominican Republic, which are hundreds of them, the four palaces over seven years, and all the expenses of 15 ministers, be equated with two days with a Tupperware from my house? Well, they're sorted," Ayuso added.
Be that as it may, the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) in Madrid had already formally requested a visit to the chalet, while Más Madrid registered a bill stating that "no public official may make any different use of the Community of Madrid's assets than any other citizen, except for those intended for the purpose of exercising their duties."
