The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, took part this Saturday in an electoral event in Torrejón de Ardoz, wearing a T-shirt that read "J'aime les fruits", an ironic nod to an insult directed at the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whom she also criticized for his role on the international stage.
"Do you speak French? Like English? Fantastic! Well. Good morning to everyone," Ayuso began, referring to the criticism that the leader of the PP and candidate for the Presidency, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has received for not mastering English.
The regional leader has shown concern because Spain will not be "in the European negotiation team with Russia" and because it is "the only major important nation in the European Union that is not going to do absolutely anything."
In her remarks, she went after the Minister of the Presidency, stating that "(Félix) Bolaños calls for a truce from the judges regarding the investigation surrounding the PSOE, which is not small, and he does it in the middle of the press conference, while they are preparing the pardon for the corrupt, criminal, convicted Attorney General of the State, as has not happened in any nation for decades," the Madrid president warned.
Ayuso also reproached the "nice campaign" that, in her view, the PSOE is carrying out and argued that the Socialists should start their events by reading the day's press. "We are going to read the day's press to refresh it, because (Francisco) Franco is rabidly current news, but the trains were left two weeks ago," she said.
Along the same lines, the spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress and head of the list for León, Ester Muñoz, criticized Sánchez for attacking Feijóo for not speaking English. "He speaks English and in his country we have doctors on strike for months. He speaks English and in his country there have been three fatal accidents in nine months. He speaks English and people don't make it to the end of the month. He speaks English and yesterday in Europe all the important countries got together to go and defend peace between Ukraine and Russia and Spain is not there. What good is your English for us, Pedro?" she asked, also demanding that he "go home to watch series in English."