Ayuso invents a threat from the Lehendakari: "He told me 'bang, bang, bang'"

BarcelonaThe Basque President, Imanol Pradales, has said enough and will consider legal action against the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for the "gross manipulation" of his words, which linked him to ETA and political violence in the Basque Country. The leader of the Madrid PP pointed this out. in an interview This Monday, when he claimed that Pradales sent him a "somewhat worrying" message during a rally this weekend: "Ayuso, entzun, pim, palmo, pum" ("Ayuso, listen, pim, pam, pum"). "That's what he came to say and that's what was said before," he said, referring to the time when the terrorist organization threatened and killed.

But these were not the words of the Lehendakari. In reality, he said: "Ayuso, now, Euskadi euskaldun" ("Ayuso, listen, Euskadi is Basque"). In an interview on RAC1 this Tuesday, Pradales has advanced that he will study "all the scenarios" on how to respond to these statements - also through legal means - and has warned that he will not fall "for any provocation." explained very well. "He did not say that he said this verbatim, but that it sounded like this, as many people who have lived through the worst years of ETA there perceived it," these same sources clarify.

"Contempt" for the Basque language

But, for Pradales, the worrying thing is not the Popular Party's attack against him, but "what lies behind it": "This is the third time in recent months that he has shown an absolute lack of respect for the Basque language and his contempt for the Basque language," the PNV leader explained. The first was at the Conference of Presidents in Barcelona, when the Madrid president left the meeting of regional leaders at the moment Pradales began his speech in Basque.

It was the first time that the co-official languages could be used at this summit, something that both the Basque and Catalan presidents, Salvador Illa, took advantage of. Even the Galician president, the Popular Party member Alfonso Rueda, said a few words in Galician, and the Balearic president, Marga Prohens (PP), in Catalan. Ayuso returned to the room only when Spanish was used again and called the use of earmuffs during the meeting "absurd." The next day he returned: "Languages are not meant to divide," he said to justify his boycott.

"Antipolitics" as a smokescreen

Ayuso's attitude at the Conference of Presidents did not receive the endorsement of the men of the PP and, in fact, even groups of the Popular Party in the Basque Country distanced themselves – for example, the PP of Gipuzkoa. However, following the incident with Ayuso, Pradales explained that no member of the PP has contacted him to apologize, at a time when The Popular Party has chosen to face the Jeltzales. after having extended her hand to them to reach an agreement. "I will raise my voice every time they disrespect the Basque language and depreciate the Basque identity," she warned, and lamented the "trivialization" of violence into which she believes the Madrid leader has fallen.

According to the Lehendakari, Ayuso is engaging in "anti-politics" to hide her "other problems." For example, the trial that her partner, businessman Alberto González Amador, will face, accused of having defrauded the public treasury of almost 351,000 euros in corporate tax for the 2020 and 2021 fiscal years.