The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has once again taken aim this Thursday in the Plenary of the Assembly against the “trade union terror” that, in her view, the left promotes with the aim of ensuring that “Spain sinks even more.” Her remarks came after the recent general strike over housing and wages, in a control session in which Vox spokesperson Isabel Pérez Moñino had asked her about the economic situation of Spanish families.
According to Díaz Ayuso, “the economic performance of the entire country is nothing flattering because right now the only thing the gentlemen of the left are managing to achieve is to make Spain a country of wronged €1,000-a-month workers.” She has accused the left of fostering distrust and of betting on “manufacturing poverty, by extending communism so that everyone is wronged, discouraged and dependent on the State.”
In her address, the Madrid president denounced that they are “creating strong distrust in labor relations, in business initiative, so that there is contempt, a lot of reluctance when it comes to striving based on merit, capacity, solvency, rigor, success—trying by every means to ensure that decay and dependency is the only thing that prevails in this country,” and she regretted that, in her view, those who are “contributing to Spain’s economy” are being “demonized.”
Ayuso mentioned the attack suffered on Tuesday by the premises of Alquiler Seguro, criticizing that it is described as “a bricklaying blow, harass and persecute” real estate companies in such a “cowardly” manner. For the regional leader, a discourse has been installed in which “always, by going after the companies that are bad, it’s bad to work, it’s bad to make an effort, it’s bad to study, it’s bad to be an owner… Pure communist,” she stated, while branding the “communist ideology” as “pathetic.”
The president has assured that Spain has moved to be among the five countries with the highest severe poverty, and she emphasized that 4 out of every 10 households “can’t make ends meet thanks to Pedro Sánchez.”
Ayuso insists on the existence of a “trade union mafia”
In responding to a question from the PSOE, Díaz Ayuso has returned to this Wednesday’s general strike and has reiterated that “union mafia” is that the trade union organizations charge “600 million more” since Pedro Sánchez arrived at La Moncloa and that “all the friends and relatives of CC.OO. and UGT” have been placed in all the public and private companies that they have colonized.
In the face of these criticisms, she has defended the management of her Executive, assuring that the Community of Madrid has reached “very important agreements” with the unions and has pushed for “a historic investment” for the six public universities, although she has lamented that all of it has turned into “papering over the cracks from the moment that elections have been called.”
Díaz Ayuso has accused the head of Government of having called the elections and that, “magic, in two days there was already a general strike to help the beloved leader so that, for once, he could see if he could raise the polls and try to look the other way.” She has denounced that the intention is to try to “impose terror on people so that they are obliged to carry out that strike.”
In her view, “the sanchism everything it touches it dismantles and discredits,” and she has expressed her desire that, starting on November 29, “that general strike be eternal and for the PSOE.”
Accuses unions of “mafia” strikes and of living off public funds
During the question period of Más Madrid, the president described the strike as “mafia” and has maintained that there are 320,000 union release workers who are getting paid “to carry the T-shirts that the left tells them to,” and that they are “being paid from public funds so that these parties can keep their seats.” “And that is mafia,” she emphasized.
Díaz Ayuso has also pointed out that CC.OO. has 52 public buildings that “are paid by all Spaniards” and added that “right now they are occupying 1,415 apartments.” Immediately afterward, she launched: “What time do the landlords of the left start distributing the apartments? That, on top of having apartments all of you in your own ownership, they are also stealing Spaniards’ apartments to carry out political strikes,” she added.
To wrap up this block, she referred to the “There will be no peace in the streets” said by Más Madrid spokesperson Manuela Bergerot. “Well, yes, there is going to be. Starting on the 29th, to the streets all,” she concluded.
Public funds and cross-cutting criticisms over the role of unions
In another of the questions, formulated by Vox, Ayuso has referred to the funds that the regional Executive allocates to unions through the regional Budgets. She has defended that her Government is contributing “the minimum essential and legal” because she believes in “workplace risks and the training of employees”.
The Vox spokesperson, however, has questioned whether it has not yet come time to “turn off the tap” to union organizations and “direct those resources for the benefit of all Madrid families”. Pérez Moñino has recalled that “on the eve of a general election, these union parasites called a general strike, but not a general strike against the government responsible for this situation, but a strike against the opposition”.
The Vox MP has reproached that the unions have been “eight years on their knees before Sánchez and now they stand up to intimidate workers.” She has also denounced the “violence against workers who legitimately wanted to go to their jobs and not take part in that circus run by the union mafia”.