Neither frontal clash, nor armistice. Rather a deferred rudeness. This is how Isabel DÃaz Ayuso has resolved the latest institutional clash that the Community of Madrid and the central government have led due to the attendance, without formal invitation, of the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, at the institutional acts of the Madrid regional government on May 2 .
Despite 72 hours of accusations and reproaches, Bolaños not only appeared this Tuesday at the regional government headquarters, but even had a reserved seat in the front row for the authorities. A chair in which his name and surname clearly appeared, and not the formula “companion of the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles”, as it was even insinuated.
Within the regional headquarters, the protocol department has avoided adding fuel to the fire and its only license has consisted of surrounding the president of the Community, Isabel DÃaz Ayuso, with several Ukrainian children displaced by the war. A formula that has caused the separation between her and Bolaños to be larger than usual, complicating an uncomfortable photo that the minister, however, has tried to achieve by lengthening the formal greeting at the beginning of the act.
Ayuso’s rudeness came later, in the street, where the Madrid president left Bolaños outside the main grandstand of the parade held at the gates of the Puerta del Sol headquarters and which, according to El PaÃs, has been justified by the scarcity of places: “They are counted places”.
Less restrained, on the other hand, have been the leaders of the Madrid PP. First the PP spokesman in the Madrid Assembly, Pedro Muñoz Abrines, and then the general secretary of the popular in this community, Alfonso Serrano, have accused Bolaños of “lack of respect” for the Community of Madrid by “inviting” himself to the act institutional and have described the attitude of the Minister of the Presidency as a “provocation” and an “affront” between administrations.
Also the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has blamed the central government and its “lack of institutionality” for the controversy that has arisen. The same as the mayor of Madrid, José Luis MartÃnez-Almeida, who has criticized that the Minister of the Presidency wanted to go “squatting.”
“He’s forced the seams and he’s forced the issue.” “In the end it will have a place here but it is not good to sneak in where one is not invited and it is not good to try to play a role that does not correspond to one. What should be a day of institutional celebration has unfortunately been tarnished by this controversy artificial created by Félix Bolaños to be here at the Royal Post Office at any cost”, has settled.
