This Sunday, Isabel Díaz Ayuso took a mass bath in front of the young people of the PP, who held their first ideological conference in Las Rozas. The president of the Community of Madrid entered the auditorium to applause, where she delivered a very strong speech against Pedro Sánchez. Ayuso insisted in his challenge to the central government that it did not create a list of doctors who are conscientious objectors to abortion as required by law and which was expected to be ready this week. The Ministry of Health has already announced that it will take the Community of Madrid to court, the only regional government in Spain not to have done so.
Having recovered from minor health problems that have kept her incapacitated for several days, Ayuso assured that the socialist government intends to “get into our heads”. “Now against freedom of conscience. Why do you want a blacklist of doctors if you won’t use it? Why do you want it? We must defend ideological, religious and religious freedom,” he said. Just over a month ago, she received a letter from Sánchez urging her to comply with the database that included the mandatory reform of the abortion law of 2023. Neither she nor her government has complied. The issue will be resolved in court, after the Health Authority announced the start of a contentious-administrative proceeding.
There was anticipation over what Ayuso might say about sentencing the attorney general, Álvaro García Ortiz, for revealing secrets in the two-count tax fraud case of her boyfriend, Alberto González Amador. He didn’t do it, not even in a veiled way. According to her team, the president tried to be cautious during the trial, although she could not avoid referring to it on several occasions over the past two weeks as it took place in the Supreme Court. Ayuso and his chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, denounce that this is an operation by Moncloa to discredit it. Rodríguez, at the time, spread false information on this topic to various media outlets which, in the long run, contributed to putting the Attorney General in the dock.
Of course, Ayuso toned down some controversial statements made in the Madrid Assembly on Thursday. In an attack on Vox, he said the far-right party promotes an “expulsion effect” and then asked who “will have to clean the houses, harvest the crops, lay the bricks for the houses where the rest of us will then live.” The opposition and left-wing circles interpreted it as a low-intensity anti-immigrant comment. The president returned to the topic, although this time she added that there are communities in other countries who work as doctors or are self-employed and create jobs. His example of improvement were the Romanians, of whom he said that they arrived “fleeing communism”, even though in that country that regime ended almost 36 years ago, and in democracy there was a shift, on the right and on the left, more or less centered.
Like some right-wing analysts, the president believes that Sanchismo is entering its final phase, although Sánchez said in an interview with El País that he intends to run in 2027, which means that he has no intention of holding elections. “It will be a very complicated end of the legislature in which we will have to fight many traps. It leaves a poisoned legacy in all respects for young Spaniards,” he added.
At no point, as usual, does he mention the leader of his party and the opposition, Alberto Núñez Feijoo. He says that the alternative is the PP, but does not give the name and surname of Sánchez’s successor, as other PP barons do. Even the Madrid opposition has no place in his speech. His confrontation with Sánchez has no intermediaries, it is directed against him or against the entire left.
Furthermore, he spoke about the socialist candidate from Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, who remains in the electoral race despite being accused in the David Sánchez case. It seems that there were irregularities in his hiring by the municipality of Badajoz in 2017. “Today from Extremadura they tell us with a straight face that nothing is happening because they have a candidate who is currently accused of having hitchhiked Sánchez’s brother,” he explained. “When a government is already in the mountains and lies become its law, when there are no rules, when everyone is above everything, the problem is how to then order this coexistence”, he concluded.
