The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has defended this Sunday that the councilor of Móstoles, Manuel Bautista, will renew with a “absolute majority” the next municipal elections in May 2027, despite “the harassment, the lie and the discredit” that, according to her, he is suffering at the hands of the central Government.
At a rally held in Móstoles together with Bautista himself, Ayuso addressed the mayor, who is under investigation for alleged sexual and labor abuse of a former city councilor from the party, and has gone so far as to say: “I know that the mafia has called at your door.” At this event, she attacked what she considers an attempt to apply “author’s justice”.
The regional leader argues that this situation is due to the fact that the mayor of Móstoles is managing “with rigor, fulfilling his program and doing things the right way,” which, in her view, is why, from Moncloa, they intend for “the second most important mayor in Madrid to be torn apart in the media that they themselves control.”
Ayuso has mocked Bautista’s work at the head of the City Hall, highlighting that “he presents budgets, aid for schools, urban planning developments—this is not how it’s done, Manuel; you’re managing—so this is not how it can be, and you know what I’m telling you: with me, author’s justice doesn’t go; that justice for which they point at you, and you’re already guilty.” She has also emphasized that this kind of practice “doesn’t go” with her because she considers it “Chavista techniques”.
In the face of the criticisms of the mayor, the president of Madrid has maintained that all this controversy has served to give Bautista “a political push” and to ensure that his municipal work “became known” throughout the Community of Madrid “thanks to the loudspeaker of La Moncloa”.