The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has assured this Saturday that “Sanchism is a leech,” that “it penetrates the body, it starts sucking, siphoning the energy, and it leaves with everything,” and for this reason she considers it essential to put an end to it “from the head.” In this context, she has reiterated the need to “concentrate the vote” on the PP candidacy because Alberto Núñez Feijóo is “indispensable.”
“If we don’t get to the head of sanchism we won’t be able to end that leech,” the leader of the PP in Madrid said during a rally in Torrejón de Ardoz, where she was accompanied by the spokesperson for the Popular Group in the Congress and top candidate for León, Ester Muñoz, and by the candidate for the Senate, Pedro Rollán.
The regional leader warned that in dictatorships “you don’t enter all at once,” since nobody calls at the door saying “hello, call a dictator,” but rather first power is gained and then “little by little it colonizes the Constitutional Court” in order, afterward, to place at the head of the General State Prosecutor’s Office “a man with no principles and no past.”
As she described it, “well, little by little you start appointing politicians with party cards from the Partido Socialista, the main institutions, especially in the Judiciary Power. And little by little, well, I’m already buying RTVE with everyone’s money to reprogram it for my service. And that’s how it goes on.” In her view, “when you realize it, that totalitarian machinery is already bigger and bigger. There are fewer and fewer places to dissent and fewer and fewer tools to do it.”
Criticism of the PSOE and call to concentrate the vote
Ayuso has defended that it is necessary for “that lot to go back home,” and she has insisted on the advisability of “concentrating the vote” in the PP, while from La Moncloa they try to “gather all the vote in the PSOE so that the beloved leader, despite everything that is happening, goes up.” In her view, “it’s not that he’s going up, it’s that he’s keeping all the extreme vote for himself. The idea and the message from Moncloa, which we have absorbed, is for Sánchez to keep going up, all concentrated in the Partido Socialista.”
The Madrid president argues that from the Government “they only seek to encourage ultra positions” like those of Núcleo Nacional, which “really do have problems with the rule of law,” with the purpose of calling again “the Francomodín.”
Therefore, he has asked that attention be paid to how, in his view, action is taken from the left to “divide them” and for the electorate to go “to vote with their guts.” He has emphasized that “we don’t need more siren songs right now, nor more populist proposals, nor more heat in the streets. We need rigor and common sense. And therefore, it’s time to trust and not go back again to the Partido Popular.”
Díaz Ayuso has also asserted the PP’s internal “plurality” and has highlighted that Núñez Feijóo has never called her to impose “a single duty but to give her his points of view,” allowing each leader “to be as he is.” “I can promise you that we have nothing to do with many things,” he has said, although he has praised her “serenity” and the renewal of the party with profiles such as Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo or Ester Muñoz.
Ester Muñoz compares Ayuso to Madonna
The spokesperson for the Popular Group in Congress and head of the list for León, Ester Muñoz, has focused part of her address on the figure of the president of Madrid, saying that she understands that the left is “afraid and desperate” because they have Begoña Gómez and in the PP of Madrid “a Madonna.”
“You don’t know what it’s like to go with her down the street, it’s that you don’t know what it’s like to go with her to an event, it’s like if Madonna arrived in the middle of the 1980s. Everyone wants to kiss her, everyone wants to hug her, everyone wants a photo with her, everyone... Why? Because you give yourself to people, Isabel,” she has said, stressing that although they “attack her more and more every day,” the whole party supports her.
In addition, she has lashed out at a Sánchez who, as she has said, has “spent eight years ruining people’s lives” and who has transformed the campaign into a kind of “comic program” acting like the “typical insecure people who have to criticize that they’re better than him.”
For his part, Pedro Rollán has assured that they are facing an “existential” campaign in which they cannot afford to fail and in which there is no “margin for error,” because these are the elections “the most important in the last 50 years.” “If on next November 29 we are not up to the task, this nation as we have known it will disappear. It will disappear. We have to leave behind this stage marked by corruption, by decline, by lies, and by division,” he has warned.
On this line, he has pointed out that in the face of Sánchez they cannot "trust, relax, or anything like that," and he has shown himself "optimistic as realistic." He has reminded that "polls do not vote. Polls do not form seats. The only thing they form is seats and decent governments are made by votes and the deputies in the Congress of Deputies. Only and exclusively."