This Thursday, Isabel Díaz Ayuso presided over the official events for the Day of the Community of Madrid in a ceremony that had nothing to do with that of 2023 and in which institutional cordiality has returned after several years of turmoil. On the first May 2 after the unusual episode in which the head of protocol of the regional government blocked the access of the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, to the tribune of honor, both the PP and the PSOE have modulated less combative messages and focused more on the regional than on the national.
The Madrid president, in fact, has barely made any reference to Pedro Sánchez, the favorite target of her discursive darts. Ayuso has charged against nationalisms in the face of the “crossroads” of a Madrid “where local identities do not triumph. And he has defended “journalism of race, of sources, of investigation and committed to telling the truth” as the main indirect to the central Executive after the angry protests made by the President of the Government to the “pseudomedia attack the democratic quality of the country with their hoaxes “.
The representation of the Government has contributed to the general drop in decibels, who instead of Bolaños has sent the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, to represent him. But, above all, the absences of the national PP. Neither Alberto Núñez Feijóo nor any other member of the Genoa leadership has accompanied Ayuso as has been customary for six years. A fact that has cost a lot to explain to the popular leaders of Madrid, such as the case of its general secretary, Alfonso Serrano, or that of the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who directly thought, mistakenly, that his leader I would be in Catalonia.
The national leader, on whose agenda there was no act that would prevent his presence – his team has justified it by the need to catch his breath before the final phase of the Catalan electoral campaign – has limited himself to issuing a brief message through Twitter to “congratulate the people of Madrid” but without mentioning at any time Ayuso, whose image has been eroded in recent weeks by the cases of tax fraud committed, and recognized, by her partner.
The PSOE was quick to notice this: “What will Ayuso have? Well, the president of the Community of Madrid has a barrage of unanswered questions, a couple confessed criminals for tax crimes and a house in which she resides that we do not know if it is being paid with money from her partner’s tax fraud or from the commissions that “He got paid in the middle of the pandemic for selling masks to Quirón Salud, the company that most benefited from the privatization of public healthcare for all Madrid residents.”
“Ayuso is more alone every day. Her own party has fled from the events of May 2nd as if tomorrow there were shootings like those immortalized by Goya in his painting. Entrenched between Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Alfonso Serrano, Ayuso waits for no one knows exactly what. The three should have resigned a long time ago,” socialist sources have added while, before the cameras, Minister Torres has extended “his hand” to the Ayuso Executive to “walk together in co-governance, coexistence and regeneration.”
Asked about Feijóo’s absence and her own at the Madrid celebration, the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, pointed out that the leader of her party has taken two days off, “without announcing them” – she ironically -, because He is immersed in the Catalan and European election campaign. “The party leadership is well represented in Dos de Mayo,” Gamarra stated in reference to Paloma Martín and Noelia Núñez, two deputy secretaries of the Genoa leadership, but who correspond to the Madrid quota placed by Ayuso herself in the leadership. national.
The Madrid political parties have celebrated the Day of the Community of Madrid, praising its diversity, its strength and its critical spirit. On the left, the general secretary of the PSOE-M, Juan Lobato, has asked to work towards “social justice” and has insisted that the “progress and growth” that the Community of Madrid must have must involve that “opportunities are well distributed.” At this point he has focused on housing, which must be a “real right.”
For her part, the spokesperson for Más Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, has highlighted the role of Dos de Mayo as part of the “popular history” of the people of Madrid that came hand in hand with social “commitment.” And, in response to this, she has placed the PP “gagging the opposition” in the Madrid Assembly and President Ayuso, who “continues without giving explanations on key issues that concern the people of Madrid.”
Finally, her Vox counterpart, Rocío Monasterio, has vindicated “those brave Madrid residents” who “rebelled against tyranny.” “Each of them managed to make a great team to defend what was theirs, Madrid,” she added.
