The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has defended that it is a priority that Spanish citizens "speak Spanish" in the Congress of Deputies, downplaying the importance of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, speaking English, after criticism directed at the PP candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for not handling this language with ease.
"It's garrapatismo," the regional leader has said during a rally in Móstoles, where she was accompanied by the mayor of the municipality, Manuel Bautista. From there, she has launched into an Executive which, as she has denounced, "takes half of your salary in taxes" and deducts the revenue from "pensions and salaries" in order to then distribute "gifts" and discourage "the desire to start businesses."
Ayuso has also taken aim at the "beloved party leader of love for pay" for boasting about speaking English, something she has said she thinks is "excellent," and that she has linked to her formation "in private all her life that her parents have paid." "You do come from the private sector, we don't. That's why what we've tried, those of us here, is for the children in the Community of Madrid to be bilingual in public education. Beyond that, Sánchez," she has asserted.
Against this, she has insisted that it is more relevant that the Spanish express themselves in Spanish and not "the joke" of the earphones, used by people who then, in the hallways, "go on to speak perfect Castilian."
"I can't with so much stupidity," she has said, also questioning that this system really means "to love co-official languages," and again mocking the term 'vaga', which in Catalan means strike and in Castilian lazy. "But it's that what do I care what he talks about if nobody speaks with him," she has reproached.
In this context, she has launched into the "ticks" that, in her view, exist in the system and must be "thrown out" because they have "absorbed and sucked everything" and intend to put an end to "the desire to make an effort and to do things with quality."
The Madrid president has emphasized that the time has come "to recover Spain for the Spanish," as well as to recover "international prestige, High-Speed Rail, career civil servants, and the best at the head of the institutions and quality."
"This is the change, no longer necessary, very necessary, essential. So we're going to do this the Madrid way, with desire. We are going to win with desire," the regional leader has concluded.
NOVILLO ASKS TO END WITH A “NEFAST” MANAGEMENT
For his part, the 'number 7' on the PP list for Madrid to the Congress and former counselor of the Environment, Carlos Novillo, has harshly criticized the central Government, with which they have faced the latest crises of these years and which, as he has denounced, has left them “absolutely alone,” forcing the regional and municipal administrations to face “the greatest known misfortunes with their own resources.”
“I am here to tell you that if on 29N Alberto Núñez Feijóo doesn’t reach La Moncloa, what is going to happen is that we will continue to lose lives of fellow citizens due to the disastrous management that this Government carries out of everything it touches. And therefore, we are risking the lives of our children, of our family members and of the Spanish, and it is that what we have to do is to manage,” he has defended.
Likewise, he has dedicated words of recognition to the president of Madrid, whom he has defined as his “boss and friend.” “She is tireless, truly, this person is an admirable woman, one of the women, I think, most important in my life, and I think in our country, right? Because she has always been there and taking the lead,” he has stated.