The president of the Community of Madrid and leader of the Madrid PP, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has accused the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, of intending to change the rules of the elections with “all the tricks he can,” while again expressing her suspicions about postal voting.
“Sánchez is going to try to pull all the tricks he can,” Ayuso affirmed during a pre-campaign event held at Ifema, in which the national president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, also participated.
The Madrid leader has reproached those who consider these warnings exaggerated, arguing that they are not aware of the risks facing Spanish democracy. “What else has to happen?” she asked, before encouraging citizens to “open their eyes.”
In this context, Ayuso alluded to the 2023 general elections, called, she said, on a date “treacherously chosen,” and maintained that there were people “who did not receive their vote or received it late.” The Madrid president thus reiterated her suspicions about the postal voting system, which she already questioned when the election call was announced.
Criticism of migrant regularization and the grandchildren's law
To these doubts about the transparency of the electoral process, she added criticisms of the “massive” regularization policy for migrants and the so-called grandchildren's law, measures that, in her opinion, demonstrate Sánchez's “unusual haste” to “inflate the censuses.”
Ayuso also responded to warnings from Más Madrid that “there will be no peace in the streets of Madrid,” and contrasted these statements with her model of coexistence for Spain. Thus, she accused the left of wanting to impose “the peace of the cemeteries,” in contrast to a city, she said, “overflowing, full of joy, concerts, theaters, shows, investments, and opportunities.”
The Madrid president has assured that the PP will demonstrate at the polls that it wants “concord, plurality,” but without “submitting to anyone,” and has rejected “coups d'état in the streets,” escraches, and boycotts of major events, such as what happened in La Vuelta a España last year.
“The mafia governs us,” says Ayuso, denouncing alleged institutional erosion
At another point in her speech, Ayuso stated that “that is the Spain that will go down the drain with Pedro Sánchez on November 29,” in allusion, she explained, to the model of confrontation and disorder that she attributes to the Government and its allies. “We are not the ones of violence,” she maintained, before adding that Spaniards do not allow themselves to be subjected “to pressure, threats, or the street violence of four cowards.”
During her speech, the president of the Community of Madrid also denounced an alleged erosion of the separation of powers, accusing the progressive coalition government of using state institutions for its own benefit and targeting not only political adversaries, but also businessmen, journalists, or cultural figures opposed to its ideas.
At that point, Ayuso accused Pedro Sánchez of having “dynamited the separation of powers” and of using the Constitutional Court in a “dictatorial” manner against the Supreme Court to be favored in cases of possible corruption affecting his circle, in addition to using the Tax Agency in a partisan way.
“It's state mafia. The mafia governs us,” she exclaimed from the stage, while denouncing pressures against magistrates, officials, journalists, businessmen, university rectors, and cultural figures. “Either you are one of them, or they will persecute you. They will enter your house, they will dismantle you, and, of course, they will never give you an award,” she pointed out.
Ayuso calls to vote for Feijóo to restore “legal certainty”
Ayuso defended Spain's democratic principles, but also cited examples such as Venezuela or Cuba, where, she said, dictatorial systems arrived “through the ballot box.” “What else has to happen for us to open our eyes and for these lukewarm people to stop pointing fingers and truly focus on what we have in front of us?” she asked.
Therefore, the leader of the Madrid Popular Party has asked for a vote for Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the upcoming general elections, with the aim of restoring “legal certainty, constitutional order, and sacred respect for the laws.”
Against the Government's “stale populism,” which she accuses of legislating on housing to convince young people, reducing the working day for civil servants, and focusing on pensions to attract the vote of retirees, Ayuso has advocated for a Feijóo Executive for a Spain that is “plural, united, prosperous, and respected in the world.”
