Ayuso affirms in Barcelona that "the amnesty did not fit before nor does it fit now in the Constitution"

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, took part this Tuesday in a new meeting of Vanguard Forums, in which she assured that “amnesty did not fit before nor does it fit now in the Constitution” and has charged against the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, for promoting this law from Congress to ensure re-election: “What he has given to the separatists does not belong to him,” he has declared, although he has not questioned its legitimacy, which, as he recalled, emanates from Parliament freely elected at the polls.

“Not long ago, Sánchez wanted to put Carles Puigdemont in jail, and now he asks for forgiveness, gives him amnesty, gives him an escort, negotiates with him abroad and accepts international rapporteurs for him. And who they want to put on the bench is the judges who were going to judge him,” Ayuso exclaimed, referring, to argue his position, to the numerous judges and prosecutors who have opposed the amnesty, who have given “a heroic lesson in commitment,” according to described.

In this sense, the Madrid president, one of the PP voices most critical of Sánchez, has accused the PSOE leader of promising the independentists “everything they asked for”, among other things, as she explained, “the amnesty, the referendum, the rapporteurs, the criminalization of judges, the humiliation of the police, the total transfer of taxes, the forgiveness of part of the debt, the transfer of infrastructure and assets and the participation of Catalonia in European and international institutions. In short, money and impunity.”

Ayuso has denied the alleged “Catalanophobia” of Madrid residents and has assured that “what is good for Madrid is good for Catalonia and vice versa.” “What is happening here hurts us. That fracture that we saw at the hands of separatism is now spreading from Catalan families to all of Spain,” stated the Madrid leader. “It is a practice that is profitable for some, but they are living at the expense of the work and suffering of others,” she denounced in reference to those who “want to live eternally in the easy chair.”

For Ayuso, Catalan nationalism does not represent “love” for Catalonia, but rather “hate” for Spain, which has caused, from his point of view, “years of confrontation” between Catalans and between Catalans and Spaniards and “liberticidal behavior.” . “This does not magnify any people, it diminishes them,” he insisted. “Separatism is a deception very similar to that of Brexit,” concluded the president of the Community of Madrid, who regretted that in Catalonia “many throw in the towel because it is the only way to withstand the environment.”

At the event, held in the MGS auditorium in Barcelona and attended by, among other personalities, Javier Godó, Count of Godó and editor of La Vanguardia, the Madrid president insisted that what is happening in Spain is also a European matter. and has demanded the intervention of the European Union in the face of the “harassment” of judges, who are accused of judicializing politics when, in their opinion, it is the Government that politicizes justice. For this reason, Ayuso has drawn a very bleak future for Catalonia due to the “totalitarian delirium” of a government that fuels a “rupturist project.”

Ayuso has also had harsh words for the “regime” press, which he has not identified but which, in his opinion, acts at the dictates of the Government and spreads the arguments that come out of the Moncloa. “What is going to happen when the courts do not protect the weakest? How are they going to do it if from now on the rules of the game have changed?” He asked himself. “Do you consider that Catalonia deserves the humiliation of being belittled by an international mediator specialized in theoretical guerrillas?” he added.

At the end of her speech, Ayuso was interviewed by journalist Carmen del Riego, who knows like no one else the ins and outs of the PP, a party she has reported on in La Vanguardia since 1986, when it was called Alianza Popular, and through which she has seen six presidents, from Manuel Fraga to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and by Joan Maria Morros, news director of RAC1. The event was moderated by Ramon Rovira, deputy president of the Godó Group and columnist for La Vanguardia.

In the colloquium, Ayuso rejected Madrid’s exercise of fiscal dumping on the rest of the autonomies: “Do it here,” he responded when asked about the tax reduction championed by the Community of Madrid, at which time the audience applauded “We must opt ??for a public system but not so that the resources go to create embassies,” he stated in reference to the Generalitat’s delegations abroad.

Regarding amnesty as a way to achieve coexistence, the argument used by Sánchez, Ayuso has reiterated that the PP will always oppose “serious crimes against the unity of Spain” being forgotten. “I would swear that in recent years the situation has been improving in Catalonia, but since Sánchez was missing a few votes, he has kicked the board and broken the separation of powers. Is that what coexistence is? Forget it and it hasn’t happened here nothing happened? Value investment is worrying,” he analyzed.

“Being the opposition means wanting to replace him and I don’t want to replace him, I want him to leave,” Ayuso responded to a question from Del Riego about the extent of his “obsession” with the President of the Government. “It takes away our fiscal autonomy. Its ministers attack the Community of Madrid again and again. But I have to defend the interests of the people of Madrid, sometimes in court,” he considered. And he does not want to replace Feijóo either: “I would like nothing more in this life for him to be the President of the Government and to have been so since July 23,” he said, “with his hand on his heart.”

Regarding the blockade of the General Council of the Judiciary, Ayuso has blamed the situation on the “synchronized opinion team” of Moncloa, with Minister Félix Bolaños, in his opinion, at the helm: “I believe that the Government has purposely left vacancies Knowing that once they had the Constitutional Court tied up, these two key pieces come, the CGPJ and the Supreme Court,” said the Madrid leader, who has insisted that it should be the judges who choose the judges.

Among the more than 250 attendees, who filled the capacity of the MGS auditorium, were also the CEO of the Godó Group, Carlos Godó; Ana Godó, editor of Libros de Vanguardia, and the director of La Vanguardia, Jordi Juan. On behalf of the PP of Catalonia, there were its president, Alejandro Fernández, and the mayors of Badalona, ??Xavier García Albiol, and Castelldefels, Manu Reyes, as well as the councilor and leader of the PP in Barcelona City Council, Daniel Sirera.