The tragic circumstances of the storm in Valencia occupied practically the entire political debate this Thursday in the Madrid Assembly between the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the opposition. The session began with a certain solemnity with the reading of a unanimous institutional declaration of solidarity with the victims, but it immediately fell into the usual ravine of disqualifications and crude accusations, this time with humorous intention, on the part of the regional president, who joked with Más Madrid’s concern about climate change uses Íñigo Errejón, reported for sexual assault.
“Are you asking me about the weather or the high point?” If your party knows anything, it’s a matter of warming up,” he told party spokesperson Manuela Bergerot, after avoiding condemning Sunday’s attack on the president of the government, Pedro Sanchez.
Week after week, the spokesperson for the Madrid PSOE, Juan Lobato, tries to convince the PP to lower morale and grant a minimum of courtesy to the party’s debate. He never succeeds. Today he tried again online with the dana, who focused all his intervention. “People who hear politicians insult and attack feel frustration and anger,” he lamented. Lobato even praised Ayuso’s past attitudes, such as when he criticized the attacks on the homes of PSOE people, asking him to now condemn “the attempted lynching of the kings of Spain, the president of the government and the President of the Valencian Community. “You know the influence of your words,” he pleaded.
Ayuso did not give in and performed one of his convoluted discursive pirouettes, linking the censorship of the Paiporta incidents on Sunday with his own management of the pandemic: “The mud that you do not want to spread in Valencia, do not put it in the residences in Madrid.
More bellicose, Manuela Bergerot also spoke of the situation in the Valencian Community to defend public services and recall that taxes “pay for excavators and ambulances” like those working in the region today. He also mentioned the resignation of Íñigo Errejón, overshadowed in the media by the floods in Valencia last week. “Doing politics in our spaces is incompatible with the exercise of sexist violence, no matter who falls. » He then asked Ayuso about measures against climate change and expressed dissatisfaction for having requested an aid decree for those affected by DANA when it had already been approved.
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Ayuso responded with a salad of generalities on the climate issue. His government defends “energy efficiency, the least polluting possible, public transport”, but does not join the “lobbies” in general, nor the “climate beach bars”, and criticizes measures such as the order to switch off store windows. early – when fuel became more expensive because of the war in Ukraine – or bike lanes prevent customers from parking near businesses, then champion nuclear power. And to bring this question into the Errejón case, he read the jokes about “warming”, “climate” and “climax” and speculated, again in a joking tone, that the “yes means yes” law would benefit the spokesperson resigned by Sumar.
The Madrid president avoided her usual attacks against Sánchez, just as she avoided defending the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, whom she did not mention. Vox was already there for the barrage. The president of the government “is the biggest culprit,” accused the spokesperson, Isabel Pérez Moñino-Aranda, for whom the “2030 agenda” is also, inevitably and in all circumstances, behind him. The spokesperson for the PP, Carlos Díaz-Pache, even protested against the fact that the president declared on Tuesday that he was fine after the attack suffered. “It’s narcissism,” he objects.
