The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayusoresponded to the attack led by the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez“Of the 10 euros that the government has given to the Community of Madrid, three have been used to give tax gifts to the richest,” said the socialist leader. “He is lying to justify the flight he is planning in Madrid”responded the Madrid president, also referring to the tax gift to Catalonia that the socialists agreed with the separatists. The head of the Executive transformed his conference at the beginning of the political course into a PSOE rally with the aim of attacking the communities governed by the PP, mainly the Community of Madrid.
“Unable to say anything positive about his management, unable to do so from the PSOE headquarters, he uses the institutions of each to justify, by lying, the theft that he plans from Madrid and the rupture of the territorial model adapted to their secessionist partners“, said Isabel Díaz Ayuso in a message published on social networks to respond to the accusations made by Pedro Sánchez. The director general also accused the Madrid executive of having diverted “1 billion euros to private health care.”
The Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Fatima Matutestressed that Pedro Sánchez’s attacks against his government are “a smoke screen”. Fátima Matute maintains that it is “a lie” to say that they are “investing more” in private health care and that they have “invested in private resources rather than in public resources”. “We have some hospitals that are managed directly and others that are managed indirectly and, of course, even in this public property, we have invested more in our directly managed hospitals. I must say that we have not diverted resources to private health care. I must say that unlike what other autonomous communities do, private health spending is certainly increased. We have an 11% investment in private health, unlike, for example, Catalonia, which reaches 23%”, he stressed.
“What they criticize us for, they do,” Matute added this Wednesday during an impromptu appearance before the media at the end of the press conference after the Government Council of the Community of Madrid. Matute stressed that she was “indignant” by the words of Sánchez, “who used a public act to oppose the Community of Madrid and, more specifically, Health.”
“In this government, what we are is transparent and we give explanations. What we have to tell the President of the Government is that in the Madrid Health Service and in all the resources that we use in the Community of Madrid, What we do is seek efficiency and, of course, we are committed to public service,” the health chief said.
The Minister of Health of the Government of Madrid has stated that she is not opposed to public-private collaboration because, in her opinion, she considers “what is necessary”but by following “well-established rules of the game” and with control “of expenditure euro by euro”.
“Tax gifts to those at the top”
Pedro Sánchez, in his speech this Wednesday to inaugurate the political course, did not announce any new proposals and dedicated himself to attacking the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. “The autonomies governed by the right have not dedicated their resources to the citizens, they have dedicated them to increasing the contracts of some companies with family ties and fund your tax gifts to those at the top“Let’s take the case of the Community of Madrid,” he said, aiming his criticism directly at the Madrid executive.
Unable to say anything positive about his management, unable to do so from the PSOE headquarters, he uses all the institutions to justify, by lying, the theft he plans from Madrid and the rupture of the territorial model adapted to his secessionist partners.
– Isabel Díaz Ayuso (@IdiazAyuso) September 4, 2024
The government president accused Ayuso of implementing a “neoliberal agenda contrary to the interests of the majority.”Property and rights“We believe that people’s education, health and dignity are not businesses and cannot depend on their postcode or the money they have in the bank. The welfare state has begun to recover from the blows, there are many public services that remain saturated, unacceptable waiting lists and some services of a quality that is not up to par,” he assured.
Pedro Sánchez considers that Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s recipe is that of “lower taxes for the richawarding more public contracts to big business while cutting services, resources and rights.
