In the PP of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, everything adds up, and the popular leader is not concerned about the regional leadership. He himself was a popular “baron” and knows that what the regional presidents do adds to the project. Feijóo does not see a risk in the regional leaders of his party, he does not believe that they can overshadow him because he is sure of his leadership. In this context, the praise received by the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, does not sound on the seventh floor of Génova street.
And that is what happens with the praise that the former president of the Government, José María Aznar, dedicated to the Madrid president, during a meeting they shared on “democracy”, organized by the Atlantic Institute. Aznar considers Ayuso an asset, and an important asset for the PP, regardless of whether she agrees, and does, with many of the policies carried out by the Government of the Community of Madrid.
“I feel identified with what is being done in the Community of Madrid. Policies based on freedom are fundamental and President Ayuso has shown impressive leadership capacity,” said the former Prime Minister in the presence of Ayuso herself.
For José María Aznar, the work that Isabel Díaz Ayuso has carried out from the Madrid government is a good letter of introduction to what the PP governments do. “His work and help are essential for the change we want in Spain to occur and for Feijóo to be a good president of Spain,” he concluded, making it clear that his commitment to Ayuso is not detrimental to his support for Feijóo, expressed publicly ago. just a few weeks, in the intermunicipal that the PP held in Valencia.
During the discussion held between Aznar and Ayuso, the complicity between the two politicians became clear both in their analysis of the world situation of democracy and the dangers that lie in wait for it, especially populism and independence movements. But also in what refers to the criticisms that are leveled at the Government of Pedro Sánchez, both for its dependence on United We Can and its concessions to the independence movement.
And they also agreed, and thus made it clear, that it is the end of the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Both are clear. Díaz Ayuso because, he said, the Spanish, from the beginning, “have realized that his project was a big lie, that Pedro Sánchez himself is a big lie”, and that lie is reflected, he stressed, in his academic curriculum , in the way in which he arrived at the PSOE general secretariat, “with hidden cardboard ballot boxes”, and a lie was “the excuse to bequeath to Moncloa”, which was that of corruption.
A lie, the Madrid president insisted, because she agreed “after having adjudged her partners in the campaign”, and because “she pushed the PP away and tries to place it outside to be able to throw herself into the hands of the independentistas and the political arm of ETA”. In addition, he said, instead of pacifying Catalonia, as Sánchez says, in his opinion “it has spread the conflict throughout Spain”, and all this has caused “such an erosion of the figure of Pedro Sánchez, that there is no remedy”, it has ” lost so much credit, that there is no one to solve it”, For this reason, Ayuso asked Sánchez and the Socialists that “when they close the door, that they do not harm Spain, that they have a little humility”.
José María Aznar fully agrees with this analysis of the Madrid president, and is convinced that there is already “a social majority that is willing to vote for hope” which is synonymous with voting for the PP and forgetting “this undesirable and hopeless coalition profoundly negative government for Spain”. Of course, the former president of the Government wants the PP to be voted for not only to end what Pedro Sánchez represents, but also because he is excited about the project that Feijóo offers him “, and that is what the PP is working on. A point that Ayuso seconded, for whom “Sánchez’s project is in its terminal phase” and the socialist regional presidents know it, although they are afraid that this end of the cycle will drag them down.
