
The president of the Community of Madrid accuses the Executive of trying to manipulate electoral processes and questions respect for the rule of law.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, has denounced possible irregularities in voting by mail during the 2023 elections and has warned of attempts at electoral manipulation by the Government of Pedro Sánchez.
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The Madrid president has questioned the integrity of the vote by mail after the 2023 general elections. The Popular Party is preparing for future electoral processes.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has assured that she fears that in the November 29 elections the central government will try to "cheat" because in the 2023 general elections there were "people" who did not receive their vote by mail or it arrived "late."
"What happened in the 2023 elections when we won the elections again? What happened then? How many people asked to vote by mail on a date chosen treacherously and the vote did not arrive, it arrived late? Everyone knows of cases. How many complaints have there been in Spain?"
Díaz Ayuso has accused those who criticize her for warning of possible cheating in voting by mail as "lukewarm" and has insisted that "Sánchez is clearly going to try to do all the cheating she can."
"They know very well that under equal conditions at the polls they have nothing to do," he argued. Thus, he has asked citizens to "open their eyes" because, in his words, Pedro Sánchez's Executive has tried to "break the rules of the game" and "inflate the censuses" with the law on grandchildren and the regularization of migrants.
"Many of us come from the future," said the popular leader, who has disfigured the "alleged moral superiority" of those who go "against those who tell the truth."
Díaz Ayuso has lamented that Spain "is experiencing one of the hardest and darkest stages of its recent democratic history." "Spain, of course, is a democracy and there is a rule of law, at least until now there is, what we don't have in front of us is a person who respects it," he stated.
"We have a president of the Government who has made lying his way of being in politics, who does not respect the rule of law, who is not trustworthy and who is a real cheater," said the regional president, in whose opinion, "we are governed by the mafia."
Along these lines, he has accused the Government of "dynamiting the separation of powers", and has pointed out that in Venezuela, Cuba and in Eastern European countries "so many came through the ballot boxes to from within eat up all those counterweights and counterpowers typical of a democracy and remain unlimited."
Given this, he has vindicated the figure of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who, he has promised, "will return legal security, constitutional order and sacred respect for the laws."
The Madrid leader has highlighted that the popular people will demonstrate at the polls that they want "concord and plurality." "We are not those of violence, we do not want coups d'état in the streets, setting them on fire as they have done in Catalonia," he warned.

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