Ayuso returns to the Madrid Assembly hours before the Pope arrives and after the change with the co-payment for ALS patients | Madrid News

The president submits to the control session of the opposition parties

Ayuso returns to the Madrid Assembly hours before the Pope arrives and after the change with the co-payment for ALS patients | Madrid News

Ayuso appears at the Madrid Assembly, live

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the Minister of Health, Fátima Matute, during a plenary session in the Madrid Assembly, on May 21, 2026.Photo: Eduardo Parra (Europa Press)
Juan Diego Quesada

Isabel Díaz Ayuso returns this Thursday to the plenary session of the Madrid Assembly to submit to questions from the opposition. The president of Madrid is hours before Pope Leo XIV arrives on his apostolic trip and completes an agenda full of events that will shake up the life of the city. For her, the face to face with him is nothing new, since the president traveled expressly on Monday to be.

In more earthly matters, the Government of Madrid has withdrawn the co-payment that it had implemented for the most seriously ill with ALS, a measure for which it had received much criticism. The relatives of the patients with this degenerative disease have celebrated that Ayuso reverses course and does not take away 40%, which could be applied by taking advantage of a blind spot in the Dependency Law. The PSOE had registered a question on this matter. More Madrid is going to question the president about the way in which extreme heat is combated in schools. In some classrooms,

The political moment is also permeated by another that is no less political, the elections in Real Madrid. The current president, Florentino Pérez, assures that the concerts that so anger the neighbors will soon return to the Santiago Bernabéu due to a “special law” that both the Community of Madrid and the City Council are preparing. The spokesman for the regional government, Miguel Ángel Martín, said yesterday that the regulations are not made “ad hoc.”

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