The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has wondered "how many ministers live at the expense of the Spanish people" and who spend their "father's life" in charge of the public treasury.
She did so in an intervention before the media after the delivery of the Bronze Doves from the City Hall firefighters and after being asked about the investigation by the Investigative Court number 8 of Madrid on the purchase of a luxury penthouse in Chamberí by the Community.
Ayuso has transferred his criticism to the focus on this purchase with "a Spain that is literally being invaded by Morocco, where Pedro Sánchez is not providing a solution to anything, with thousands of people wandering illegally through the streets of Ceuta creating insecurity and health problems."
"And having our compatriots, the people of Ceuta, in their homes in fear, terrified, abandoned by the Government. With runaway prices, the country burning, forcing us now, as we are going to find out at the return of the summer, to assume and pay the debts of the Catalan independence movement in Catalonia, which are runaway debts that are shameful," he continued.
He has also attacked "ministers who are only busy moving soon to new spheres, to new institutions, to collect salaries, while here they have done absolutely nothing", along with "socialist leaders who may possibly go to jail around the corner."
"Taking this into account, I think that (the purchase of the penthouse) does not amount to much more," he summarized. Díaz Ayuso has even thrown a battery of questions at Sánchez because "he never submits to questions" from the media, starting with knowing "how many ministers live at the expense of the Spanish, how much their houses cost, how much their services cost."
This has led him to ask if the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, "is living as a father in one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Madrid." "Or if it is true that the president's brother has been living in Moncloa; how many times have they used the Falcón to go and profit from dictatorships like in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic; if it is true that the representatives of the PSOE in Madrid are mired in the sewers of Leire Díez," he listed.
"I would also like to know if it is true that the senior officials of the PSOE have increased their salaries by 150%, because we are not, certainly not me," he stressed. From there he went to Morocco wondering "why no action is ever taken." "Why, in the face of this provoked and premeditated avalanche from Morocco, has the Government abandoned our people? It abandons us all," he condemned.
To which he has added his doubt about whether Sánchez "is going to suspend his vacation at some point in the face of such an immigration crisis, if someone is going to give explanations in the Congress of Deputies or the president is going to do it, since this is what would happen in any country in the area."
"I would like to know what is hidden so that Spain is antagonizing the entire West, the leading powers in the world, and we can only have friends in dictatorships," he lamented.
His next question focused on "how much are the royal holidays costing for the President of the Government and all the guests, for all the people who are using public facilities and who go directly to the treasury," he concluded.
For his part, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has come out in defense of the head of the Madrid Executive and predicted that there will be "Help for a while" if the left's electoral program for the 2027 elections is limited to the penthouse purchased by the Community in the Chamberí district.
"If all the arguments of the left with which they are going to present themselves in the 2027 elections, just nine months before the elections is the attic issue... there is Ayuso for a while, make it clear, there is Ayuso for a while," he has repeated since the delivery of the Bronze Doves on the day of the unofficial patron saint of Madrid, the Virgin of the Paloma, before the regional president, according to Europa Press.
Almeida believes that "when the enemy makes a mistake," we should not let him change course but rather "continue with this issue, because with him there is no doubt that in the May elections" the PP will once again "revalidate the absolute majorities."
"I have heard explanations from the president, I have heard explanations from the counselor, and they have also done it on several occasions, it is not that they have done it on just one occasion. For me, of course, there has been no shortage of explanations," the councilor concluded.
The statements took place during the festival of La Virgen de La Paloma, which, like every August 15, breaks the summer break for Madrid politicians, a break that this year has been busier than usual due to the fires in the western mountains and the controversy generated by the purchase of a penthouse in Chamberí by the regional government.
Both situations have marked the political agenda for August and have forced the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to make a series of unusual appearances in the first fortnight of this month, which ends with the traditional mass dedicated to the virgin and the reunion of most of the politicians.
The mayor of Madrid, accompanied by the president of the Community of Madrid, first presided over the delivery of the 'Madrid Firefighters' Bronze Pigeons', at the Casa del Reloj Cultural Center.
Next, the mayor of Madrid will attend the traditional mass, where he will make the floral offering and witness the traditional lowering of the painting of the virgin. In the afternoon, Almeida - whose last appearance was at the end of July, during a visit to those affected by the fires - will participate in the procession in honor of the Virgen de la Paloma.
Más Madrid and POSE-M have taken advantage of the celebration of the La Paloma festival this Saturday to focus on the housing problem and the controversy of the president over the purchase of a penthouse in Chamberí, the "only Madrid woman who has a house in the capital without putting a euro down."
"Congratulations to Isabel Díaz Ayuso who, practically, is the only woman from Madrid who gets a house in Madrid without putting a euro out of her pocket," said the spokesperson for Más Madrid in the capital's City Hall, Rita Maestre, in statements to the media prior to the delivery of the Bronze Pigeons.
In his speech, Maestre referred to the head of the Consistory, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, whom he reproached for having been "hidden and silent" since July 29, when the controversy related to the regional president's attic "popped up."
Given this "silence", the spokesperson for Más Madrid has urged the mayor to reveal whether or not he is "among those who privately criticize" the head of the Madrid Executive even though, in her words, "they continue to defend her in public."
"What do you think of the excuses that that attic had been bought to be converted into offices when municipal regulations strictly prevent an attic from being used for anything other than living in it?", the Más Madrid spokesperson said to Martínez-Almeida.
For her part, the municipal spokesperson for the PSOE-M, Reyes Maroto, has also focused on housing, but in this case on the problems of access to "decent" housing in the capital, as detailed in statements to the media.
Maroto has criticized that the City Council "gives up" municipal powers to companies and private companies. "You cannot privatize public services that are essential to improve people's lives, such as the Municipal Housing and Land Company," he said.
According to its data, the Madrid City Council has sold more than 120 plots of public land which, according to its claims, have prevented the construction of more than 10,000 homes for Madrid residents.
Both leaders thanked the Madrid Firefighters for their work on the day of the Virgen de la Paloma, patron saint of the capital's firefighters, for whom they have highlighted their work during the efforts to extinguish the latest fires and for whom they have asked for better working conditions.
The non-attached councilor of the City Council, Javier Ortega Smith, former spokesperson for the Vox municipal formation, has also highlighted the work of firefighters and has defended policies aimed at "preventing fires without climate fanaticism."
