PSOE spokeswoman and Minister of Education Pilar Alegría during her appearance in Ferraz this Monday MARISCAL AGENCIA EFE (EFE)
The President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has made confrontation with the government one of her trademarks and a very effective way to divert attention from her government and position herself as a counterweight to Pablo Casado or Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the former , to position leader or leader of the PP. But his recent disqualifications against CEO Pedro Sánchez, who accused him of trying to emulate Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and violating the most fundamental rights of a democracy, blew up the PSOE. The Madrid leader, who is going through one of the most delicate moments of her mandate due to the chaos surrounding the reopening of primary care emergencies – she closed them in the first wave of the pandemic and reluctantly reopened them at the end of October but with half the staff – has Sánchez this Monday accused without evidence of being an “authoritarian” president who “wants to have the opposition in prison, like in Nicaragua”.
The response from the PSOE, where they believe the Madrid president’s outburst is a response to her nervousness about health anger in her community, has been furious. “It’s okay,” said the spokeswoman for the federal leadership and Minister of Education Pilar Alegría, who always weighs her statements very carefully. “What the President of Madrid should do is get to work, she has a lot of real work to do that affects the lives of the people of Madrid. And what can’t be is that we put out a new one every two times three so we don’t talk about what’s important,” he was referring to the indefinite public health strike of Madrid called by the doctors’ union (Amyts).
The situation is so serious that for the third time Díaz Ayuso has corrected the emergency plan for health centers: now he proposes to doctors via video conference, which is unacceptable for doctors. “What we need to talk about is her inability to manage what is her premise as President, which is good health and a good education. What she certainly cannot do is blame the best professionals that this field has, such as the health workers or the teachers, which this President also usually keeps doing, ”Alegría has condemned.
The president of the community has also reiterated that Sánchez intends to isolate himself in La Moncloa and foment the discourse that his executive is illegitimate, without distinguishing himself from the hardest wing of the right and the extreme right. “That’s what they’re trying to do: we have to destroy the opposition because there can be no opposition in dictatorships. We also have to kill the opposition because I have to immortalize myself, I don’t know with which project because Sánchez has not done anything good for Spain,” the popular leader said in an interview on Telecinco. Díaz Ayuso claims that Sánchez tried to “immortalize” himself with the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, which the PP has blocked for four years.
Feijóo relented when the agreement to update the governing body of judges and uphold the constitution was to be finalized following internal pressures such as that from the President of Madrid. “The president of my party, with whom I am in constant communication, has always known that it seemed like a way to nowhere,” clarified Díaz Ayuso, who assured last week what the governor’s intentions were the renewal of the judiciary “is to have the PP in prison”. Sanchez has become [el Marine] Le Pen of the European Left. That’s what it’s doing with fiscal policy…what this government intends to do is foolish, which is to continue in all institutions,” concluded the Conservative leader.
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