There are 28 kilometers between the Moncloa Palace and the Tomás y Valiente Art Center in Fuenlabrada. Between the Real Casa de Correos and the Plaza de España in the same town, the distance drops to 23. And it is there, in the main socialist bastion of Madrid’s red belt, where the PSOE has always governed after Francoism, where the first direct electoral battle between the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the regional leader, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Beyond the usual crossover of statements in recent months.
Because yesterday the leader of the Executive chose Fuenlabrada as the first stop for a pre-campaign rally in Madrid. The same place that Ayuso had set foot on three days before with the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, to bring the red belt vote closer to his embers, more left-leaning, as he already did in 4-M. However, there were hardly any direct references from Sánchez to the Puerta del Sol.
The president mentioned the regional government only to accuse him of “selling public housing to vulture funds.” But he did shoot in a veiled manner against some of his decisions in his criticism of the PP. “We are not going to talk about miracles or that Spain is doing well, but we are going to say loud and clear that the PSOE manages the economy much better than the PP because we defend the interest of the majority and not of a privileged few,” he said. in a criticism that always accompanies Ayuso when he announces a new tax cut.
“On May 28, it will be decided whether we want governments for the majority or for a privileged few,” said the Executive leader after accusing the PP of causing “speculation, corruption and the ruin of many families when the real estate bubble burst” and of point out that “his economic miracle ended up with everyone in jail.”
Where there was direct reference to La Moncloa was on Friday in the act that Ayuso and Moreno shared in the Plaza de España. «On May 28, citizens are gambling what they want in their environment and what they want for their children and grandchildren. Let no one think that voting for the PSOE is not endorsing Pedro Sánchez, “started the Andalusian president, who insisted that the next regional and municipal elections” mean giving an endorsement or a veto to the policies of Pedro Sánchez.
Ayuso’s reply came with the controversy over the Irrigation Law that the PP wants to carry out in Doñana and for which yesterday President Sánchez described the PP as a “denier” of climate change. “The president [Moreno] is suffering in the first person the machinery of sanchismo against the interests of Andalusia, manipulating everything and with that roller with which he usually does things here,” Ayuso remarked, making a comparison with the confrontation that his Government has maintained with La Moncloa since the pandemic.
«In Madrid we are very used to it, we have long experience in fighting with sanchismo. These days it is very difficult to deal with half measures, with half-truths and with that machinery that can do everything”, he had an impact before stating that Pedro Sánchez “public works in Doñana have only been interested in reforming his summer palace ».
Yesterday, in an act in Las Rozas, while the president was in Fuenlabrada, Ayuso accused the leader of the Executive of “dismantling everyone’s house” and of “wanting to leave Spain without capital.” «Yesterday Sánchez already boasted of continuing to remove institutions from Madrid and promised to continue doing so with the argument of creating a country and making a homeland. You have to have a tough face to make your homeland by breaking Madrid. Is having a la carte tax making a homeland? Allowing Bildu to expel the Civil Guard from territories like Navarra is creating a country? », He concluded.
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