The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, speaks during the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly this Thursday.SERGIO PÉREZ (EFE)
According to Vox, the 2,354 emigrants from the Canary Islands that the Community of Madrid will receive in the coming weeks would be deported on buses to other regions. This is what the spokesman for the extreme right, Rocío Monasterio, said this Thursday in the Madrid Assembly. His statement, inspired by the strategy of New York Mayor Eric Adams, has led to a conflict with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the regional president. Therefore, the Chamber has focused for a moment on a specifically Madrid issue, as the migrants are distributed between the capital’s Arteaga headquarters in Carabanchel and the Primo de Rivera barracks in Alcalá de Henares. A mirage. The debate immediately turned to the amnesty that the PSOE is negotiating with the pro-independence parties in order to achieve the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez as president. “I hope they all end up in prison,” wished popular speaker Carlos Díaz-Pache.
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“In Madrid, help always reaches the same people,” Monasterio began his complaint. “If you look at the lists [de beneficiados de ayudas]What you see is Mohamed, Mohamed, Jamid, Mustafá… but instead Paula, Juan José, Carolina, Natalia, David, zero [euros]” he continued. “This creates a brutal call effect,” he said. “You recently [por Díaz Ayuso] He complained that illegal immigration was causing insecurity on the streets. Welcome to our speech,” he added. And he concluded: “Let’s see what they do with the 2,000 that they brought us to Madrid.” What I would have to do is, like the mayor of New York, put money into chartering buses and take them to the of “to bring autonomy to socialist-governed governments and leave the matter to those who defend open borders.”
Díaz Ayuso listened to Monasterio without making a face. The 28M elections have led to a change in the tectonic forces that previously invisibly shaped the everyday life of the assembly. The conservative leader, trapped by Vox votes for two terms, now has an absolute majority that allows her to face plenary sessions openly, with no record to satisfy her former partner. On the other hand, the disappearance of Podemos, which has become the party that has received the most votes in history without achieving representation, has allowed Más Madrid to take its place, which this Thursday with allusions to the bombing of Gaza (“Long live Palestine free,” Mónica García shouted) or criticism of the “obscene” advantages of the banks. An attempt to distance itself from the PSOE.
Vox spokesperson in the Madrid Parliament, Rocío Monasterio, gives a press conference as part of her participation in the plenary session of the Madrid Parliament this Thursday. SERGIO PEREZ (EFE)
“It is perverse to conflate illegal immigration with immigration. The mixing of immigrant parents born in Spain with immigrants is also a problem,” Díaz Ayuso replied to Monasterio. “If they were born here, they are as Spanish as Santiago Abascal,” he told the speaker about the Vox boss after suggesting that his speech had xenophobic undertones. “The irregular situation of these people is not good for themselves, for other immigrants, or for the rest,” he continued. “That’s why our concern is to know who they are, how they come, what they are like, knowing what phenomenon we are dealing with, what phenomenon we are reacting to… especially because when we see the mafia -Business multiplied, we will be nothing but deceiving each other.”
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It was a rare moment of debate focused on Madrid. Because it is now common for the assembly to be merely a sounding board for the national partisan struggle and not a forum in which regional politics are discussed. And of course the negotiations over the inauguration of Pedro Sánchez offer the PP a unique opportunity to mobilize its electorate. Not even the presentation of the 2024 regional budgets, usually an iconic moment for all regional leaders who try to exploit every financial item for propaganda purposes, managed to overshadow the controversy over the amnesty law negotiated by the PSOE with ERC and Junts.
“Whatever you want [al portavoz del PSOE, Juan Lobato] “It bypasses any institutional control and confuses the interests of Spain with those of the president,” Díaz Ayuso said. “They are trying to prevent political leaders from answering for their crimes in court. “They attack political pluralism,” he continued. And he emphasized: “Impunity is incompatible with prosperity and especially with employment.”
“They will tell us that the coup was not bad, that the violence was not bad, that the police should not have defended the rule of law and that those who threw paving stones, acid, those who literally set.” “Catalonia is on fire, you have to forgive that because they were playing politics,” said the spokesman for the conservatives in the chamber, Carlos Díaz Pache. “You have no limits,” he said. “If the plan is for the PSOE to always rule, regardless of who wins the elections, then that has a name and is called a dictatorship,” he continued. “Faced with this disgrace, we only have one hope: they make the laws so bad and try to amnesty them [a lo mejor] “You make a mistake and put them all in prison.”
In addition, the Minister of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid, Jorge Rodrigo, criticized the PSOE’s “cession of Rodalies to the ERC,” “the result of its immoral pacts with those who want to break up Spain.” Given the poor state and lack of investment in Madrid’s Cercanías.
Before all of this happens, before polarization overwhelms everything, one man says goodbye. Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, former finance minister and ideological beacon of the PP for a decade, walks through the corridors of the chamber, shaking hands and taking photos. He will work in Alicia Koplowitz’s company. Meanwhile, the screaming continues in the congregation.
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