The subjugation to which Isabel Díaz Ayuso has subjected Vox in recent months in Madrid -both in the regional Assembly and in the capital’s City Council- has annulled the ultranationalist party’s capacity for regional influence precisely when it would most need it both to reinforce his negotiating strategy for the formation of autonomous governments as well as for a hypothetical national scenario after the 23-J elections.
Fearful of falling into irrelevance in the face of the absolute majority of the acting president of the Community, her spokesperson, Rocío Monasterio, has chosen to claim partial authorship of the government program outlined yesterday by Ayuso during the first day of the debate on investment.
Family support plan, trans law, birth aid… The Vox spokeswoman has listed one after another the electoral promises shared by both parties to congratulate herself on “the extremely powerful influence” of her parliamentary group. “I am glad to see how much he has opened his eyes and to what extent he has taken our speech as his own. Even if it is by political calculation, I am very glad that he turns our speech into concrete policies”, she has boasted.
Monasterio has described as “exciting” that the PP has announced that it will bring to the regional Chamber, for example, an autonomous Family Law, so that the family perspective is in all laws and in all administrations. “This is from Vox. Like so many other announcements he made yesterday and that you may not have seen, but that shocked and shook the left-wing bench,” he has claimed.
With his speech, also delivered internally to be heard by his national leaders, Monasterio has tried to value his work in the last four years and shake off the rumors that his future in the regional Chamber after the results of 28- M already has an expiration date having been canceled by Ayuso.
Monasterio’s strategy, however, has been quickly invalidated by Ayuso to avoid giving air to a formation that he has proposed to suffocate since, among others, he blocked the approval of the 2023 expansionary Budgets, forcing him to extend those of 2022 made in a pandemic key.
The first attack has been focused on belittling their parliamentary errors and ignorance, reminding them that Vox can no longer hide behind the fact that it is a young formation. And the second has been directed at the strategy of wearing down the PP for the formation of regional governments and which, in Ayuso’s opinion, turns Santiago Abascal’s party into “the real cushion and the great help that the Sánchez government needs to not speak of the truth and of what is happening in La Moncloa”.
In this sense, he has ironized with what satisfaction it means to have Vox so as not to talk about the “nonsense” of the Executive “nor of Tito Berni, nor of the pacts with Bildu, nor of those who are in the institutions, nor of what he intends to do the Government of Sánchez, nor the institutional deterioration to which it has brought us during these years”. Ayuso has insisted that they are “the great mattress” to mislead everyone.
“It is not always their fault, they use them, but they are always at the precise moment when they are most needed because they make it very easy. And I believe that in this life, in addition to being right, which sometimes they are, you have to be effective. And believe me, they are not” (…) “they never land in regional competitions”, he snapped.
