The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has warned that "an unknown response from Madrid" will occur against the concessions and "pure Chavismo" that, in her opinion, the Government of Spain is promoting to "destabilize democracy".
During her speech at an informative meeting organized by the newspaper 'El Mundo', Ayuso denounced that "it is a coup by the Executive Power against the Judicial Power. And if they have to do everything for it, then they will. But I also tell you and I promise you an unknown response from Madrid".
As she explained, the central Executive's objective would be to "perpetuate themselves, grant amnesty, and get rich", in addition to "changing the territorial model and the state model without caring about anything, neither coexistence between Spaniards, nor between regions".
Along these lines, she pointed out that "so if you denounce it from Madrid, it means you are against the people of Catalonia. If you denounce any of the abuses, it means you do not want the will of the people of the Basque Country. However, the independentist minorities continue in their eagerness, and no longer hide it, and we have been denouncing it for many years, to impose a plurinational federal republic in Spain".
Ayuso also lamented that "never has so much been spoken about the civil war and about factions everywhere" and criticized that "culture, audiovisual platforms, and universities are being used to divide".
The Madrid leader has described the current Executive as "a populist and totalitarian government, all following the same pattern, against business, against the separation of powers, and stirring up a past written by law for the convenience of a few. And they will not hesitate to burn the streets and use the unions that have been complicit, silent, all these years".
In her opinion, "they are colonizing everything, every corner of the State, all public and private companies" and she predicted that, as the legislature progresses, this dynamic will go "much further, because of what is there and because of what may come".
Mobilization in the streets and the role of civil society
When asked about possible responses in the streets, the Madrid president advocated for "useful, effective" gatherings, rejecting those that "demoralize and end up dividing". She emphasized that the weight of the street is "a weight that is not measured" and that citizen discontent "cannot remain latent there, without a response".
He pointed out that "in normal times, strong and guaranteeing institutions, as Spain has had in democracy, have the answer. The problem is that our democracy was not prepared for dictators to sneak in and begin to gnaw away at the checks and balances."
In this context, he assured that civil society "is desperate with this government" and that many citizens "are thinking of leaving and taking their investments, their properties, and their children with them." In his opinion, "one power is being worked against the other. We have never seen anything like it."
Ayuso also expressed her wish that "everything comes to light and that state corruption and the rot that Spain is suffering from collapses once and for all." Faced with this panorama, she vindicated the Community of Madrid as a "refuge against totalitarians, freedom-killing policies, and all those who hate what is Spanish from within and from without."