The DANA of Valencia attracted strong criticism this morning from the opposition to the PP in the Madrid Assembly. “The Valencian PP applied to DANA the maxim of the Madrid PP in the pandemic: let all those who must die die,” said Más Madrid spokesperson Manuela Bergerot. The regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, responded by accusing the opposition of living “twisting the pain of the victims” in an attempt to “return to power” in the Valencian Community.
The performance of the Valencian government in the face of the storm led Bergerot to recall other PP responses to historical crises managed by their governments. “In the face of great tragedies, the People’s Party has always responded with lies,” he said, referring to the Prestige, 11M and the pandemic. The president responded, in equally harsh terms, that in the opposition “they have not even allowed the missing to be buried and that they are already dabbling there”, but she avoided directly accusing the government of State and Pedro Sánchez on this issue, He also did not respond to Bergerot’s criticism regarding the party’s maneuvers in Brussels to torpedo the appointment of Minister Teresa Ribera to the post of commissioner.
The session began with a hangover from the appearance the day before of Begoña Gómez, wife of Pedro Sánchez, in the commission of inquiry created ad hoc by the majority of the PP, with the support of Vox, to supervise her relations with the Complutense University, already criminalized. Ayuso addressed the issue in a way that provoked laughter and resounding applause from the opposition Más Madrid and PSOE. “If the university has anything, it is prestige, and when titles are given away like hotcakes…” At that moment, applause broke out, a spontaneous reaction to the memory of the popular former president Cristina Cifuentes and her master’s degree granted without having obtained it by the Rey Juan Carlos University, also public. The event distracted Ayuso, who was already preparing for her usual tirade against her political rivals, her “feminism” and her “chiringuitos”. “I can’t defend myself, President. “I can’t talk,” he complained to Enrique Ossorio, who quickly intervened. “I understand that you liked what the president said and that you applauded her, but do not use the extension of applause so that the deputies do not speak,” he censored.
The “numerito” with Begoña Gómez
True to his sober style, the socialist Juan Lobato had previously described the convening and celebration of the commission on Wednesday as “numerito” and had based his criticism on Ayuso’s tax policy, “his tax gifts to the rich” and the defense of public services, with mention of the law aimed at reducing income tax for new foreign tax residents, known as the Mbappé law, in reference to the French footballer Real Madrid.
Ayuso had already declared, in any case, that his model goes through the apparently contradictory binary of “low taxes and social spending” in response to the spokesperson for Vox, Isabel Pérez Moñino, who from DANA defends that Madrid is dedicated only to spend the bare minimum. minimum and devote the rest to the reconstruction of Valencia. In the package of superfluities, Vox includes “union seafood restaurants and homes for 30-year-olds.”
