Ayuso, to the left: "I encourage you to go alone and drunk through Tehran"

MadridIsabel Díaz Ayuso has once again positioned herself as Pedro Sánchez's antagonist regarding the war in Iran. The Madrid president has attacked the Spanish head of government over his clash with the United States and has branded him a "rebellious adolescent leader." "Of course not to war, and may it end as soon as possible, but also not to the Spanish civil war that [the PSOE] fuels every day," the leader of the PP in Madrid reiterated during the control session in the Assembly of Madrid. Ayuso has sided with Donald Trump with a defense of intervention against the Iranian regime that has outraged the left. "I encourage you to go alone and drunk through Tehran," said the president of Madrid in response to the criticisms of the opposition leader, Manuela Bergerot, from Más Madrid. Ayuso has even added that she also encourages them to "take their gay friends to see when they are hanged from cranes." "This is how they treat homosexuality and women," she insisted.

Although the main draw of the parliamentary session in the regional chamber is Ayuso's appearance to explain her recent government crisis, the international situation and the Madrid president's outbursts have partially overshadowed it. "The first condition for a woman to be free is that her country is not bombed," replied Bergerot, who lamented that Ayuso has a "habit" of "scolding women who like to go out partying." This is not the first time the Madrid president has used this feminist slogan to attack the Madrid left. "Did they arrive home alone and drunk when they went out with Errejón at night?" she reiterated a year and a half ago in another plenary when the scandal of the former Sumar spokesperson broke out. Más Madrid has lamented that Ayuso "lacks feminism" and "is the same" as José María Aznar or Santiago Abascal. "If you like war so much, go yourselves," Bergerot said.

The Madrid president has stood by her position on both this issue and the controversial reshuffling of the Madrid Ministry of Education. As she did a couple of weeks ago, Ayuso justified the dismissal of Emilio Viciana, which generated a trickle of resignations from a group known as the pocholos. According to the Madrid president, she took this step because she wanted "a change of course" in policies, thus downplaying the internal struggle within the PP of Madrid and her regional government that the reshuffle revealed.