Ayuso goes on a rampage against Sánchez's government
Like a sledgehammer, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has unravelled the list of grievances and actions that the Government of Pedro Sánchez is carrying out without pause to stifle its development and prevent it from continuing to lead in investment, the creation of companies and jobs and contributing 20% of the national GDP, from which the whole of Spain benefits, among other things because it is the Community that contributes most, by far more than Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, to the coffers of the Treasury.
The straw that has broken the camel's back has been the decision by Transición Ecológica, the department headed by Vice-President Teresa Ribera, to reject Madrid's request in its latest national electricity supply plan, which, according to Díaz Ayuso, puts at risk technological investments worth 16,000 million euros and no less than 18,000 skilled jobs.
Tough confrontation with Pedro Sánchez's government
The President of Madrid attended a breakfast organised by the Europa Press agency, attracting a large attendance, which she did not disappoint both for the forcefulness of her arguments and for the clarity with which she explained what she describes as "a sibylline intervention in Madrid", arguing that it is so perverse that its effects are not immediately noticeable, and when the people of Madrid in particular and Spaniards in general realise it will be too late to reverse the race towards impoverishment to which the Government wants to subject Madrid.
Ayuso repeated several times that the President of the Government "is buying the Catalan elections with everyone's money", after the concessions he has been making to the pro-independence groups and the negotiations, exclusively with them, on financing.
With her characteristic clarity, the Madrid president described "independence and nationalism as a business that starts every time a negotiation ends", costing all Spaniards millions of euros so that "four" who do not give a damn about it can live off it. "It is, therefore, a corrupt business that lives off the efforts of honest citizens, taxpayers, the hopes and dreams of everyone so that these four can stay in power. "This business of the pro-independence supporters would not be happening if the President of the Government had not sponsored their campaign when they had already become irrelevant", Ayuso stressed.
Nor did she keep quiet about the alleged intentions to force, either with fines and punishments, or with incentives to the detriment of other regions, the return to Catalonia of companies that left as a result of the insecurity generated by the 'procés'. They are not going to return," she stated emphatically, "among other things because together with a businessman there is a family behind him with values, effort and work, and those people who have come to other regions of Spain, especially to the Valencian Community or Madrid, have children who have already put down roots, have friends, some already have partners and a new life, so you cannot transport businessmen as if they were merchandise, because they are people who have their lives and the lives of many other people behind them".
To round off her argument, Ayuso stressed that "the insecurity, the uncertainty, the uncertainty and the arbitrariness" with which the Sánchez government is acting generate "confusion, fear and fear", in other words, everything that discourages anyone from undertaking and carrying out their business and life projects in good faith.
The European Union also came up. Firstly, when asked about the agreement between the government and Junts to cede immigration powers to Catalonia. Ayuso replied that "enough of chopping up Spain. We are a single nation that should operate with a single market, as we do with the economy, so that as a sovereign nation within the EU, immigration cannot be divided up in any way. What is more, the EU itself should take action on the matter.
Ayuso also said that the European justice system could paralyse the planned amnesty that would allow all Catalan coup plotters to go unpunished. "It is time for the European Union to realise what is happening in Catalonia, which by the way has external allies who are not at all in tune with the European project".
Nor did the President of the Community of Madrid fail to refer to Bildu, for whom she did not expressly call for illegalisation, but did ask "the PP to ask the Supreme Court whether Bildu is within the law for having people with blood crimes on its lists".
As usual in these breakfast briefings, the questions are sent to the moderator, in this case and as usual, to the director of Europa Press, Javier García Vila. The latter did not include the question asked by Atalayar: Does the president of Madrid believe that the facts consummated by Sanchismo will be reversible? This question remains for general knowledge, so that the president can answer it when she sees fit.