– There is no plot of institutionalized and generalized corruption within the PSOE. I affirm it too.
—With the same conviction with which they affirmed the innocence of Santos Cerdán?
The dialogue at close range that the journalist Carlos Alsina (wave zero) and Minister Óscar López (PSOE) on Monday summarizes the chain that holds Madrid politics. Today they are, and its derivatives, who in the case of the representative of the Central Executive overshadow their work as general secretary of the Madrid socialists by focusing on defending the work of the government. Yesterday, the founder of more Madrid denounced by an alleged sexual assault. And for months, the case that affects Alberto González Amador, the couple of President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, investigated for her businesses during the pandemic; as before charging a juicy commission through a company in the purchase of masks destined for the Community of Madrid; or the concession, before he came to power, of an endorsement for a semi -public company to a company participated by his father ().
The issue is that López hurries 45 minutes of interview without anything focused on his proposals for Madrid. Judicial news rules. In Madrid it is so much, and with protagonists of such a first line, that threatens to phagocyt the political agenda, kidnapping any proposal, and diluting those raised in the Assembly, where the debates are marked by the partisan struggle and the and you, precisely, around the alleged cases of corruption and the frontal opposition of the institutions dominated by the PP against the government of the Nation (PSOE and add).
“What exists is a deliberate noise strategy by the Popular Party, which burns the public debate so that it seems that we are all equally incendiary,” complains a high position of more Madrid that asks to be expressed from anonymity. “But who calls the terrorist adversary (‘Hamas Madrid’) is the PP,” he reproaches. “The objective is that the legitimate confrontation of models, which is present in each debate in the form of proposals and offers of understanding, be a stercolero,” he says. “The truth is that, in the end, noise is the only thing that is heard. The PP seeks to delegitimize the opposition with an” ad homine “to any proposal or questioning that embraces all political action.”
The national policy has been filled with judgments with its origin in Madrid, a capital region in which the autonomic and state controversies are intertwined as in no other. , who has uncovered an alleged plot of public contracts from Public Contracts that supposedly implies former Minister José Luis Ábalos, the former secretary of Organization of the PSOE, Santos Cerdán, and a collaborator of both, Koldo García. And the González Amador case has resulted in the State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, to be due to the alleged filtration of an email of that cause.
In parallel, the opposition has brought to court the controversies that have surrounded the family of Ayuso, as now; He, for the alleged illegal fractionation of contracts and invoices for works in educational centers; ; the one that affects number three of the PP, for alleged administrative prevarication; or the one for which a general director of the Madrid government whose brother presides over an association that received a two million subsidy investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office has been dismissed. The regional government denies that this is the cause, defends the good work of the affected, and explains the cessation as part of a restructuring to reduce costs.
“The political agenda conditions it, of course, since the media ask for these cases and ask for reactions,” explains Pilar Sánchez Acera, the Secretary of Organization of the PSOE of Madrid. “The strategy, in our case, not so much,” he continues, remembering that the socialists propose the application of the Housing Law to run rents, or strictly regulate tourist floors. “Perhaps the Assembly, especially the days of full, has become an uninteresting space for citizens,” he grants. “[Pero] We cannot ignore corruption in a community that has been in the hands of the PP (…) or that its environment was enriched in the worst of the pandemic and that [la presidenta] Live more than an attic valued at 1’8 million supposedly paid with illegal commissions and money defrauded to the Treasury. ”
In the PSOE they do not forget the ”of the PP, a trapantojo driven by Ayuso to insult as“ son of a bitch ”the president of the Government. And they blame the conservatives of having muddled the field of play until the controversies deviate the attention of the supposed lack of political initiative of their governments in the region. An interpretation that the PP rejects.
“The Community of Madrid never stops managing and promoting policies, but we have also defended that you do not have to put the other cheek,” says Alfonso Serrano, Ayuso’s right hand as general secretary of the PP of Madrid. “The left also intends, in this, to exercise the monopoly on what can be and cannot report,” he continues. “We are not going to stop denouncing the corruption of the PSOE or the cases of harassment in more Madrid [] Because doing so would mean complicity, ”he adds, arguing that this is compatible with expanding the subway network, or building new health and residences centers.” The problem is those who do not have proposals and are dedicated only to criticizing the adversary, “Affea.” We have time for everything. “
That time includes having converted the community into the region, which is joined by the regional government at the National Court or the Supreme Court. In parallel, the Central Executive has also taken the regional to court, and the PSOE, for example, has resorted to decisions such as granting an honorable medal to the president of Argentina, Argentina,
The case torrent assumes that when there are proposals, they can hardly compete in media impact and public resonance with the political fight in the courts. Among other things, because the resource to justice has long gained a lot of weight in the strategy of the parties. At the time of polarization, the clash goes ahead of ideas.
A circus
“Since the Ayuso government focused its action on the defense of the citizen with” social projection ” [] Cross accusations debates have been flooded in the Assembly and unfortunately the proposals on housing, inequality in the territory, lack of primary care, climate change … They are not attended, because only noise is heard, “laments a veteran socialist political.” We should insist on spreading our proposals, “he says.
His disenchantment is just a symptom of ailment that afflicts Madrid’s politics. The opposition complains that the plenary session of the City Council and the Assembly have become “a circus” encouraged by “the open bar” of the absolute majority of the PP. They indicate responsibility for the respective presidencies, to which they accuse of selective deafness. But nobody is guilt. The screams are answered with shouts, not with silence. The commitment to interventions more intended to show off in X that to unrave a problem of citizens is the general norm. And so the noise is imposed, without hearing the ideas.
