Maria Lopez and Esperanza Ronda |
Madrid (EFE) the PSOE in the autonomies where a political change is at stake on May 28.
The Madrid president, who in her region aspires to achieve an absolute majority so that Vox does not have the ability to block her policies, says that she is not concerned that there will be more coalitions with Vox like the one that already governs in Castilla y León.
He hopes not to have to see, as in the region of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, “headlines, little depth in the debates” and “improvisations” but, then, he affirms: “of course I will always prefer this to following socialism, and more this socialism, in autonomous communities and town halls”.
The objective of all politicians, he stresses, is to govern with an absolute majority and “hopefully everyone” could have their project but, aware of the difficulty, he points out that “agreeing with Vox is not the worst.”
In his case, he prefers not to have to do it because running out of “budgets, having Madrid’s urban developments blocked” or doing without “investment incentives”, “is not acceptable”, and he sees Vox in a “drift” of “criticize everything that the PP does” when it is this formation that faces being a “real alternative”.
“I aspire to have the same government as now, a government in freedom, where I can fulfill my commitments and not have to be a prisoner of headlines, of shock effects,” he says. He then explains that he only works with the scenario of a government own, although with the ballot boxes still “empty” he asks to flee from triumphalism: “there is a long job ahead.”
Go to Feijóo in Moncloa
“Yes, without a doubt, it will be,” she answers when asked if the leader of her party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will manage to win the general elections and become president of the Government.
Immediately afterwards, he advocates having “humility” because “it is not done”. It takes “a lot of work, knowing how to unite, knowing how to convince, not squinting, having clear ideas”, he affirms and maintains that “it can be seen in all the polls” that Feijóo is achieving it and hopes that from 28M it will be seen “much more ”.
Ayuso does not contemplate “another scenario” than a Feijóo government and for this reason he prefers not to speculate on whether, otherwise, a change of leadership in the PP would be necessary.
Nor does it clear up the question of whether she imagines herself as president of the Government or when she thinks a woman will assume that role. “They ask me many times because I have a national discourse, as the discourse of any regional president should be (…) but times come like this, now men’s times come,” she says.
And “also of women”, he adds, to allude to some of his candidates, those of Alcalá de Henares or Alcobendas, or those who make up his team.
On Feijóo’s promise to repeal sanchismo, he explains that he would repeal “sectarian laws” or that they are not drafted with “scientific and legal rigor.”
He gives as an example the law of democratic memory or the law of only yes is yes and concludes: “all those laws that are good or can be improved, good, and I think the rest should be repealed, but positively, with alternative proposals” .
On the need for a PP congress to debate its ideology, which has not been discussed since 2018, Ayuso points out that he is with the decision made by the national leadership, argues that from his government he sets positions and declares himself contrary to the “ideology” that he sees it as a “little frame of mind” that constrains and “reduces the world.” Instead, she defends values and principles.
In Europe, the “nonsense” of the Government is surprising
Ayuso believes that the European Commission does give a wake-up call to the Government by advocating harmonized embezzlement penalties higher than some of those that apply in the country after the reform of the Penal Code.
He alludes to the Judiciary, the reductions in sentences for rapists or the reform of the Criminal Code, in his opinion, in exchange for votes from the independence movement, to maintain that in Spain we are “anaesthetized” while “outside” it is seen to be a “complete nonsense” and “there is a continuous malaise.
Although “we have ourselves because on many occasions the European Union has decided that they are internal issues,” he adds.
Moreno seeks to solve the problem of Doñana
Ayuso rejects the accusations of climate denialism to the PP for the Andalusian bill that seeks to legalize irrigation in the northern crown of Doñana and reproaches the Government for not doing anything while criticizing Juanma Moreno’s attempts to find solutions.
“Sánchez had a plan since 2018 and the only public work that is known there is a summer palace that we all pay for,” criticizes Ayuso who, on the contrary, believes that Moreno makes a decision “to prevent crops from dying and families”.
Ayuso also leaves another reproach to Sánchez: “He does not meet with any regional president. Those who belong to him run away from him, and those who belong to the Popular Party are always treated in the same way, ”in his opinion, with imposition and without sitting down to find solutions together.