The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, once again sets the tone for the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The Madrid leader imposed her criteria after several days of hardening her speech against the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, and his executive. Ayuso will not attend meeting with president at La Moncloa this Friday. A sit-in that the government considers “very serious” and with which the leader of the PP is “understanding”.
An “agreement” that did not exist a few weeks ago, when Ayuso already mentioned the idea that all the regional presidents of the PP would refuse to meet Sánchez. SO, On September 7, Feijóo defended in an interview with El Mundo that he was a supporter of fulfill institutional functions. “I attended all the meetings I had. With Zapatero, Rajoy and Sánchez. A president of a community does not elect the president of the government. Therefore, I do not see any risk in this regard”, Feijóo then explained. When asked in this interview if he thought Ayuso would attend the meeting at La Moncloa, Feijóo went further. “To deal with the problems of Madrid. Look at how the Cercanías of Madrid are, immigration… I believe that President Ayuso knows very well that her responsibility is to defend the interests of the people of Madrid and to put into practice the policy of the State, and that is what he has always done,” he insisted.
THE The PP Baroness encouraged her peoplebut he did not find regional accomplices in his rebellion against President Sánchez. “This government will try to bribe us one by one in La Moncloa,” Ayuso warned. But the regional presidents of the PP put their institutional obligations first and declared that they would attend the meeting. And they did so as they were summoned. Meetings in which they presented their demands, particularities and needs of the communities they govern and in which they were heard by the socialist president.
Today, Ayuso made his decision public. The Ayuso who Months ago he called Sánchez a ‘son of a bitch’ from the guest box of the Congress of Deputies or from the one who described last week the president of the “mafia” and his ministers of the “brazen” or “Stalinists”defended her sit-in against the President of the Government, accusing him of “defaming” her. A strategy of victimization to which government sources responded by recalling that “the President of the Government did not defame anyone, he only recalled the tax offenses committed by his associate, offenses to which this same person confessed.”
A decision by Ayuso with which Génova is now balancing so as not to contradict its national leader. As LaSexta learned, Núñez Feijóo and Ayuso had a conversation this Sunday. In it, Feijóo said he understood the reasons for the sit-in because “Sánchez called her corrupt.” However, sources from Genoa explain that Feijóo believes that it is an institutional error that one of the presidents, in this case Ayuso, does not go to the meeting with the president, but he “understands”.
For the regional barons of the PP contacted these days, Ayuso’s decision is not a surprise. They recognize that if one of them was able to do so without suffering electoral consequences, it was the president of Madrid. A decision which is still not shared and which they describe as an “institutional error”.
This is not the first time that Ayuso has set the tone for Feijóo or imposed his criteria. This is what he did on issues such as migration, reduction of working hours, conciliation, tax on energy companies… “I can’t wait for Feijóo’s ticker to come out to see how I position myself,” Ayuso said years ago. there is, and continues to be, its modus operandi.
