Isabel Díaz Ayuso, accused of filtering emails from the couple’s lawyers, returned the case to the plenary session of Madrid’s parliament at the same time that the General Supervisory Court was in session. It’s juicio’s second and final week. Ayuso’s intervention attacked the PSOE, calling it an “authoritarian” party. “Ustedes is an authoritarian project that does not respect the separation of powers or the power of the press,” Ayuso told a Socialist Party spokesperson. “She will not run for office in her lifetime.” Previously, PSOE spokesperson Mar Espinal had directly mentioned the tribunal, but Ayuso did not speak about it. “The chief of staff and his colleagues must admit their lies in court,” Espinal said, referring to the testimony of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Alberto González Amador in the General Fiscal Court. “Usted will have to do it too,” he said to Ayuso.
According to sources, the president of the Community of Madrid is trying to focus on the government’s responsibilities while deciding whether Inspector General Álvaro García Ortiz will filter press messages so that a new lawyer admits to tax crimes on public farms. But it is impossible to abstract from much of the reporting that has taken place at the Supreme Court in recent years, which has been retransmitted throughout Spain.
Ayuso opposes Vox’s ‘ostracism effect’: ‘Someone will have to clean house’
The session began with a question from Vox spokesperson Isabel Pérez Monino, who asked about the 25,000 housing units he promised to build after taking office in 2019, during which he spoke about the supposed damage caused by migrants in Madrid’s districts. Ayuso responded by centering immigration in his opposition to Box on this point. “It’s not good to have an expulsion effect, because someone has to clean the house, someone has to gather the crops, someone has to remove the tiles in the house that we all live in. So what needs to be done is that law and order is enforced, that it is mandated, that we encourage immigration that is linked to work.”
The opposition registered several questions on general issues in the order of the day, among which the most important one stood out. The Madrid Health Council has admitted an error in sending letters to 571 patients who received false negative notifications for colon cancer. Healthcare providers dispute that there are no diagnostic errors in the hub and that “correct results” are always recorded in a patient’s clinical history. Since this mistake was discovered, the administration has contacted all of these patients via phone, SMS, and even primary care medical professionals. According to this information, this topic was covered in one week.
Now it’s time to find out what Ayuso claims to be respectful. However, all eyes will once again be on the pairing of Ayuso and Alberto González Amador. In the previous full text, the opposition spoke to him in very harsh terms. Socialist Party spokesperson Mar Espinar said he was a “fanatic of financial fraud”, while Manuela Bergero of Mole Madrid said he “did not run away” from unsolved cases of these crimes. The president responded by referring to corruption cases that have plagued the government, including those involving governors José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdan (the latter).