With Sunday’s housing rights demonstration approaching, it was natural that the growing difficulties of paying for an apartment would come up during this morning’s plenary debate at the Madrid Assembly. To address the issue, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, once again bypassed the substantive debate to resort to her usual inflammatory speech. “What am I going to ask of the parties capable of agreeing on the housing law for all Spaniards with the hidden experts that are the members of Bildu ETA,” he declared, as the highlight of his intervention.
Más Madrid spokesperson Manuela Bergerot herself usually tries to compare Ayuso’s housing situation with that of common neighbors. Today, it makes it ugly again to live “in a million-dollar penthouse paid for by a businessman friend” while the average person can barely pay their rent. He called for limiting housing prices and stopping using state law as a pretext to explain the shortage while at the same time refusing to enforce it in the region. “Rentitarianism is a cancer for the economy,” he said, deploring that the PP government is rolling out a “red carpet” for those who buy properties “five at a time” and throwing the rest at “every man for self”.
Ayuso accuses the opposition of copying “communist recipes”
With her particular logic, Ayuso responded that if she herself does not pay the mortgage or the rent, it is because she has “nothing”. He accused the left of wanting to “end supply” and argued that restricting rent prices would have the opposite effect. Then he again warned of the communist apocalypse that would be triggered by those who say that we must intervene in the market “to bring us all down”, with ideas “that even a 14-year-old child would not have not”, no matter how successfully they have been applied for a century in Central Europe.
Ayuso understands that putting controls amounts to copying “the communist recipes that apply to Venezuela” and she accuses the opposition as if Bergerot herself had control in Caracas. He had previously given slightly more sober explanations to Vox spokesperson Rocío Monasterio, who asked him the same question. Ayuso referred to the “demographic explosion” in the Community of Madrid and defended that it will deliver until the end of the year 2,000 additional housing units from its affordable rental plan, although those it currently has differ barely the market price.
In her attempt to attack the central government, the Madrid president once again attacked the president’s wife, Begoña Gómez. The regional leader believes that the socialists have been “degrading the university for several years, particularly Complutense”. “They live from the public to destroy it from the inside, with their unionist friends, by placing themselves among you, creating an anxiety that flows into the most important universities,” he responded to the secretary general of the PSOE-M , Juan Lobato.
Unlike the national PP, the regional leadership of the party chose to summon Gómez, during the first session of the commission of the Madrid Assembly which seeks to find out if there has been nepotism with her on the part of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). and he announced that he would also consider doing the same with the President of the Government on the basis of what was known during the meeting. Sánchez’s wife is expected to attend the regional parliament in November.
Ayuso asked Lobato “how will they receive the boss?” “A big blow,” replies the regional president. For months, the popular party remained uncertain about summoning Gómez, but this week the problem was finally resolved. The PP of Madrid assured that this movement is “coordinated” with the national leadership of the party and with the “people who must be informed and aware of what is also happening in the Assembly,” said the PP spokesperson at the Madrid Assembly. Carlos Diaz-Pache.
Lobato criticized the Madrid president for having “a plan to dismantle public education”. And he assures that “having to go into debt to study” is not “freedom”. The PP, singled out during the Master Case which tarnished and damaged the reputation of the Rey Juan Carlos University, today accused the PSOE of degrading Complutense and “concocting beach bars” for the benefit of businesses. This sentence was uttered by Ayuso, unaware that his predecessor in power, Cristina Cifuentes, had to resign for having obtained a given title when she was a government delegate.
