Public education and housing are the focus of the debate this Thursday in the Madrid Assembly. The plenary session also plans to approve the creation of a study commission to analyze the consequences in the Community of the paralysis of the so-called “grandchildren's law”.
The session comes after thousands of teachers and students mobilized this Wednesday in Puerta del Sol in defense of “quality” education. Among the demands of the strike called by unions and family associations are a salary increase of 600 euros per month, fewer students per classroom, and the elimination of the current bilingualism model to “stop educational segregation”.
In this context, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has intensified her attacks against the left during the control session of the regional government. The Madrid president has stated that "when the left is going to lose power, we know how it behaves", before resorting to "civil war-ism" and "burning the streets" in her speech.
Ayuso accuses the Government of using immigration to “blow up” public services
Immigration has also been the focus of the exchange between Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the Vox spokesperson, Isabel Pérez Moñino, during this Thursday's plenary session in the Madrid Assembly. The regional president has accused the central Executive of using irregular immigration to “dismantle” and “blow up” public services, while defending that her Government is reinforcing health, education, and transport in the face of population growth.
Pérez Moñino had asked about measures to protect public services against the migratory policies of Pedro Sánchez's Government. The far-right spokesperson alluded to transfers from Ceuta and accused the president of being willing to “anything” to remain in La Moncloa.
In her speech, the Vox leader attributed to Sánchez an alleged attempt at “electoral fraud” through changes in the census and maintained that he intends to transfer thousands of migrants to the peninsula. She also linked these arrivals with a possible worsening of hospital waiting lists and urged the PP not to repeat the “errors” of the 2023 elections.
Ayuso, for her part, has assured that the Community has been adapting its services to demographic growth for some time. She pointed out that her Executive cannot determine whether those who arrive do so from Ceuta, through Barajas airport or from Guadalajara, and has vindicated her policies to structure the territory and distribute this growth in a balanced way.
