The PP of Madrid has denounced this Thursday that the left is trying to hide "the moral and political deterioration of sanchismo" by focusing on the international trips of the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, while the opposition groups have demanded "transparency" regarding the costs of these trips.
The debate took place around a Non-Binding Proposal (PNL) registered by the PSOE after the institutional trip of the President of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to Mexico, an official visit that concluded earlier than planned after the head of the regional Executive accused the president of the North American country, Claudia Sheinbaum, of boycotting her agenda.
The socialist proposal focused on reinforcing transparency, as the PSOE considers that, among other things, information regarding the expenses of this trip has not been provided. The text called for the elaboration of a specific protocol for the institutional trips of high-ranking officials of the Government and the regional Administration, as well as the obligation to publish on the Transparency Portal, within a maximum period of 30 days, data such as the officials involved, the total cost broken down, or the results of each trip. In addition, it requested the drafting of an annual report on the institutional trips of high-ranking officials of the regional Executive.
The socialist deputy Tatiana Jiménez intervened in defense of the initiative, emphasizing that citizens have the right to know "how resources are used" and to be informed of "who travels, where, with whom, what the agenda is, and, above all, what the results are."
Jiménez assured that the data for the trips made in 2026 to New York, Brussels, or Mexico are not currently recorded on the Transparency Portal and that, of what has been published, "except in two exceptions" the only item that appears is "that of the airport's VIP lounge." In her opinion, the agenda for these trips is usually not "very clear" and the results "much less so."
At this point, she focused a good part of her speech on the visit to Mexico, which she described as "ten days with an institutional agenda very difficult to explain, with offensive behavior towards Mexicans, very far from diplomacy and, above all, little understandable when trying to strengthen ties and links, and with a very eventful and very uncertain ending."
The PP replies and links the debate with Zapatero and corruption
On behalf of the PP, the party's general secretary in Madrid, Alfonso Serrano, has reproached that while the left "tries to muddy the waters" with the trip to Mexico, what has been learned about the investigations into former government president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is, in his opinion, "shameful".
Serrano has also criticized that the PSOE omits "the appointment with prostitutes" of former minister José Luis Ábalos during the pandemic, but that instead it "shames them a trip by the president". "They intend for the political debate in our Community and in our country to revolve around the trip of a president when we have an entire former president of the government indicted for corruption, not only for the first time in history and not only a former president, but the ideological beacon of the left and the architect of sanchismo," he remarked.
The popular leader maintains that Madrid "dismantles the narrative" of the central government because it demonstrates that it is possible to attract investment "without ideological sectarianism" and that Díaz Ayuso's trips "work". "If they have no shame, at least have a little dignity," he concluded.
Más Madrid attacks Ayuso's "nerve" and her stay in Riviera Maya
For Más Madrid, the deputy Hugo Martínez Abarca took the floor, who resorted to irony when referring to the reasons for the abrupt end of the president's trip. He pointed out that if someone feels "very in danger" because a "totalitarian narco-state is persecuting them," they should not "stay on the lounger of the luxury resort looking at the beach and drinking margaritas."
"If not for security, they should do it out of responsibility when there is an international health crisis in their country with 14 Spaniards who are going to come to the Community to be treated," he added, alluding to the hantavirus health crisis, the initial stages of which coincided with the final phase of the trip.
Martínez Abarca maintained that the Madrid president has made "a fool of herself in three ways" on this trip: first, for "a nerve that is shameful" by staying "in the Riviera Maya" after canceling her institutional agenda; second, on an intellectual level, "saying outrageous things" alongside "her friend Nacho Cano"; and, finally, on a "moral" level, by not recognizing the role of the country that "was most generous with the Spaniards" democrats whose "country was stolen" during the Civil War.
Vox demands rigor and defends the King as "best ambassador"
Representing Vox, deputy Ana Velasco recalled that her party has been "denouncing the opacity" of the Government of Spain for "years", but also warned that "omissions of information" have become "general practice" in the Community of Madrid.
"Spanish legislation requires the coordination of regional external action with the State's foreign policy. We know that with this Government it is very difficult, if not impossible, to maintain a spirit of unity of action," she stated. However, she defended that the best "ambassador of Spain" is the King, and therefore urged that he be the one to represent the country internationally.
Velasco stressed that, for Vox, the issue is not limited to providing information about the president's trips, but rather that the regional Executive exercises "its powers with rigor" and sets "logical priorities in its Government action". "It must justify the interest and the opportunity of the activity it carries out," she concluded.