The deputy and number two on the PP list for Madrid to Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, praised this Tuesday the management of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for "challenging the left," "winning elections," and promoting "freedom" in the region. For this reason, she emphasized that everyone has "an unpayable debt of gratitude" to her.
"Dear president, Isa, we have fought together, we have suffered together, and we are going to celebrate together the end of this destructive and deranged Government," proclaimed Álvarez de Toledo during the presentation of the candidacy for Madrid in the general elections at the 'Espacio Jorge Juan', in an event where she shared the stage with Ayuso and the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
In her speech, the parliamentarian claimed that Ayuso has chosen to "get into the arena, challenge the left, and win elections." "You have made Madrid synonymous with courage in the service of freedom. And we all have an unpayable debt of gratitude to you for that. Thank you very much," she addressed her, receiving a standing ovation from the audience.
Shortly after, Ayuso replied to those words by returning the compliment and highlighting her "exceptional way of working each word and each concept" and "for knowing how to look at the background of each political issue" because "there lie the keys to everything that happens to us." "Having that vision is fundamental in politics and she has it like few others," added the president of Madrid.
Recognition of Feijóo and criticism of Sánchez
At another moment in the event, Álvarez de Toledo addressed Feijóo and recalled that this Monday he reminded her that in the past he called her "soft baron." "What audacity! And you perhaps called me tough girl. Yes, I am tough. Clarity and strength," she stated, before asking the party leader if she could address him informally: "No, better not. Imminent president of the Government of Spain."
The PP leader defended that the president of her party "has as much warmth as Sánchez has decency" and emphasized that the PP "took on" and "returned the course, victory, and hope." In her opinion, "Feijóo is the force of reason that Spain needs."
During her speech, she also focused her message on the corruption cases affecting the PSOE. "Sewers, jewels, whores, saunas, connections, kickbacks, narcos, mafias," she enumerated, to emphasize that Sánchez's era "will be remembered as the era of indecency."
In this line, he has maintained that these elections "have a pre-political dimension" and "do not even go from left to right, exactly." "On November 29, we are going to set the moral bar of public life and we are going to decide what we are willing to tolerate," he indicated.
He also recalled that the president of the Government himself told Mariano Rajoy in a debate that Spain "needs a decent president" and that he was not one. "Today we return it to you. Mr. Sánchez, you are not a decent man."
Moreover, he has described Sánchez as an "immoral radical, lethal mix of Narcissus and Nero." "He looks in the mirror, mirror, mirror, while Spain burns, pure vanity and pure destruction. His departure from the Government is, therefore, a national ethical urgency," he emphasized.
"Revolution of Decency" and unity in the PP
Against that figure, Álvarez de Toledo has defended that Feijóo is indeed a "decent man, sober, integral, sensible, and rigorous" and that he constitutes "the antithesis of corrupt egotism and the antithesis of that incendiary vanity that Sánchez represents."
"That is why we are going to promote a revolution of decency, we are going to restore public morality and we are going to demand from ourselves what we demand from others. I aspire for Spaniards to feel proud. Proud not only of Spain but also proud of us," he remarked.
Referring to the diversity of the list for Madrid, he emphasized that the PP "is not a sect" and that they are not all "cut from the same cloth," but rather have "styles, sensitivities" and "even different opinions."
In his opinion, one of Feijóo's "great virtues" is being able to unite his own to "then unite the Spaniards." "How are we going to unite Spain if we do not unite among ourselves? In that, he is also the moral antithesis of Sánchez," he added.
According to Álvarez de Toledo, the most serious thing in these years "is not corruption, nor even institutional degradation" but "civil-warism" because "never before has a president of the Government announced his mandate promising a wall between Spaniards." In his view, that defines "populism," based on the maxim "divide and conquer."
"Sánchez invokes love, but practices hate. Does he want to use the Guernica? He should start by thanking Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, who brought the Guernica to Spain in September 1981, in a gesture of reconciliation," he pointed out, concluding that the head of the Executive has become a "pathetic populist, without a people" and that "he is left only with violence."
Call to mobilize the vote
After stating that "sanchismo is above all a form of pessimism," he cited a "lesson" from the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, reminding that "freedom does not carve its own path" and that it demands leadership, perseverance, and democratic militancy.
"And that calls us all, not only the politicians, those of us who aspire to be representatives of the Spaniards, but also the voters themselves, the Spaniards themselves," he continued, warning that in this "decisive hour of the nation" it is not enough to "wish for the end of this bleak stage" but that "it is necessary to put an end to it."
"We must rise up and say I am going to vote. I am going to mobilize the cynics and the resigned, the abstentionist and equidistant flirtation. I am going to do everything to restore decency to Spain," he demanded, insisting on the need to ask citizens to go to the polls on November 29 so that "the reconstruction" in Spain can "begin."