Ayuso takes advantage of the act in memory of Miguel Ángel Blanco to lash out against Sánchez: "The popular front that governs us today"

The Miguel Ángel Blanco gardens, located in Madrid's Chamartín district, hosted this Monday the act of remembrance for the PP councilor murdered by ETA 29 years ago. The ceremony, organized by the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation under the motto 'Your legacy commits us', brought together numerous personalities from the Popular Party and the institutional sphere.

Among the attendees were the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; the general secretary of the PP, Miguel Tellado; the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida; and Marimar Blanco, sister of the murdered councilor, popular senator and president of the foundation that bears his name.

During her closing speech, Díaz Ayuso dedicated a good part of her discourse to the current political situation and the central Executive's relationship with Bildu. The Madrid leader maintained that "those who supported the heirs of ETA for a handful of votes, sooner rather than later" will end up "bowing their heads with them" and will come to ask themselves: "How did we get to such rottenness?"

The regional president also urged Pedro Sánchez to reflect on why, in her opinion, "he understands himself better" with Bildu than with socialist or ex-socialist leaders such as Emiliano García-Page, Felipe González or Joaquín Leguina. In her speech, Ayuso affirmed that "the popular front that governs us today" is based on nationalism and the "triumph of others' hatred", elements that, she pointed out, ETA carried to their ultimate consequences through the use of terrorist violence.

Likewise, she considered that, after the defeat of "ETA's programmed mafia", it remains pending that "its purposes have the same outcome", although she expressed her doubts that this will happen "as long as Bildu continues to support Sánchez".

The Madrid president defined ETA as "a murderous and mafia gang that corrupted the census of the Basque Country forever, expelling thousands of good families from their land". She also criticized that many of its members have not asked for forgiveness and that, "on many occasions", they have chosen to remain linked to that period "as protagonists or as heirs".

In the final part of her speech, Ayuso supported the proposal announced by the national leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to repeal the Democratic Memory Law. In her opinion, this norm responds to a strategy to divide society into two blocks and keep "civil war mentality" alive, in addition to favoring that "Spaniards continue to swallow whatever it takes as long as the other doesn't govern."

The tribute concluded with a remembrance of Miguel Ángel Blanco and his legacy as a symbol of the fight for freedom against terrorism.