The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, lashed out this Tuesday, in an interview on Espejo Público of Antena 3, reported by Europa Press, against the strike, which she described as an “undemocratic” use of citizens, who, in her opinion, are being used “as hostages” with the aim of ensuring “there is no political alternation”.
During her speech, Isabel Díaz Ayuso asked that “the undemocratic nature of what we are seeing at the moment” be observed, while reproaching that the protest leaves students without service and complicates mobility, with special reference to EBAU students, whom she alluded to after mentioning that in the Community of Madrid 300,000 hours of elective classes have been lost.
“They don't care about having all Spaniards kidnapped on the roads, not arriving on time, everything chaotic, everything stuck,” said the Madrid president, who attributed the call to a “union mafia” and maintained that it is a “totally political” strike. In her opinion, behind these mobilizations is the message that “we don't want there to be political alternation”.
Ayuso stressed that union work is a constitutional right that she does not question, but she differentiated that framework from what, she said, constitutes “abuse, impunity and kidnapping”, with effects on educational centers, families and public coffers.
Criticism of Broncano's interview with Abascal
The president of the Community of Madrid also referred to the interview that presenter David Broncano conducted on La Revuelta with the Vox candidate for the Presidency of the Government, Santiago Abascal, which she described as “a disgrace” and which, she said, only sought to “divide the PP with Vox”.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso stated that she endured “a minute and a half” of the interview due to the “shame” it caused her, and criticized that the presenter “hesitated”, did not know “where to start the speech” and inserted “rallies” into a program that, she said, presents itself as “left-wing” on public television.
Along these lines, she maintained that the objective is for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, whom she defined as “leader of the opposition and who always wins” elections, to “drop” ahead of the elections on November 29, because she believes that both the program and public television are “controlled” by the Palace of La Moncloa.
Ayuso's warning to Feijóo about public media
The Madrid leader has insisted that the intention would be “to feed that PP-Vox division again to then demonize Vox” and maintain that the PP has “no one to make a pact with”. Furthermore, she has stated that she would not recommend Alberto Núñez Feijóo to go to that program, because, in her opinion, he should not fall “for lures or traps”, since doing so would mean “feeding this and whitewashing”.
“Coming here I spoke with Feijóo and I told him promise me that this garbage ends,” said Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who insisted that union work is a right, but not, according to her criteria, “the kidnapping of public services and the lives of all Spaniards”.
Ayuso closed her speech with a message in which she again criticized what she considers a political use of public resources, stating that there are people who “live off public funds to dismantle public services” and to “kidnap wills”.
Criticism of the call and road blockades
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, criticized this Tuesday the use of “impunity and kidnapping” in view of the general strike called for this Wednesday and demanded an end to “union garbage”, considering that it seeks to use citizens “as hostages” of their demands.
She stated this in an interview on Antena 3, reported by Europa Press, in which she criticized that, in her opinion, unions do not care about having “all Spaniards kidnapped on the roads”, with people not arriving on time to their jobs and with a scenario that, as she described, becomes “chaotic and jammed”.
A strike she considers “totally political”
“They don't care, because everything they are promoting with this union mafia that leads us to this strike, which is totally political, the only thing they are saying is we don't want political alternation,” asserted the Madrid leader, who at the same time stressed that union work is “a constitutional right” that she does not dispute.
However, Isabel Díaz Ayuso has insisted that she rejects “abuse, impunity and kidnapping”, a situation that, she said, leaves “students without class, ruins families and causes damage to public coffers”.
Conversation with Feijóo and reproaches to UGT and CCOO
The regional president of Madrid explained that this very morning she spoke with the leader of the Popular Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to whom she asked him to promise her that “all this union garbage is going to end.” “And he told me, don't doubt it,” she affirmed, while criticizing the “kidnapping of public services and the lives of Spaniards.”
Ayuso reiterated that this strike is promoted by Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) and Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), which she defined as “two unions affiliated with political parties” from which they “eat, and vice versa.” She also pointed out that there may be union members from both organizations who do not share what is happening, because, she said, “their true colors are showing and they are getting out of hand.”
“Mockery” and rejection of the protest
In this context, the president of the Community of Madrid described the situation as “mockery” and stated that they do not know “who is protesting or why,” in addition to criticizing that everyone is paying for this situation “with their money, their effort, their business, and their sleepless nights,” something that, in her opinion, “has to end.”
“Because union work is a right, the kidnapping of public services and the lives of all Spaniards, because there is a political alternation that the Government denies, that is another thing,” Isabel Díaz Ayuso added at the close of her statements.
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