Ayuso asks Feijóo to put an end to “all the union garbage”

Isabel Díaz Ayuso today criticized the strike of Cercanías train drivers that took place this Tuesday and the general strike this Wednesday, 11-N. On the way to the Antena 3 set where she was going to conduct an interview with the journalist Susana Griso, the president of Madrid called the leader of her party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, by phone, making him promise that “all the union garbage is going to end” if he manages to be the next president of the Government of Spain after the elections that will be held in exactly 19 days.

In Espejo Público, Ayuso has explained the call like this: "Union work is a constitutional right that I do not deny, nor do I deny the protest. I deny and reject the abuse, impunity and kidnapping, leaving students without class, ruining families, causing that damage to public coffers. Coming [here] I have spoken with Feijóo and I have told him: 'promise me that this garbage will end.' Because union work is a right. The kidnapping of public services and The life of all Spaniards (...) is something else.” The leader of the Madrid PP believes that La Moncloa, with these strikes, wants to prevent “political alternation.” He considers that what is happening is “undemocratic.”

The general strike called by the unions for tomorrow, Wednesday the 11th, with housing as the main demand, divides Spaniards almost into two halves. 46.3% support it and some more reject it, 48.8%, according to a 40dB survey for EL PAÍS and SER. The unions have already advanced that they expect an “unequal” follow-up to it. They anticipate massive demonstrations and seek to stop the activity, but foresee “asymmetrical” support depending on the impact of the housing crisis and the conflict already underway. Feijóo has asked not to support it, while Ayuso defends that it is just another left-wing strategy to “set the streets on fire.”

There was also space in the interview to comment on the presence of the Vox leader, Santiago Abascal, on TVE, where he was interviewed last night by Broncano on La Revuelta. According to Ayuso, the space is presented by “a man who hesitates and gives you rallies when you ask.” The regional leader has criticized the comedian, who experienced moments of great anguish during the talk, for defining his show as “a left-wing program.” "Forgive me?" Ayuso said in surprise before adding: "One thing is that you are left-wing, phenomenal; another is that you bring people from the left, also phenomenal. But this is public television (TVE), which is also paid for by those who are not left-wing. What are you talking about? Since they are so totalitarian, since they believe they are better people...", she spoke.

In recent days, the president had maintained a low tone and had given her leading role to Feijóo, but this Tuesday she returned to acting as usual, that is, from the first hour giving her opinion on everything that surrounds Spanish politics to place headlines in the main media. He has once again accused Pedro Sánchez of approving the grandchildren law, which grants nationality to hundreds of thousands of grandchildren of exiles by the dictatorship, to “cheat in the elections.” His theory is that he nationalizes like-minded people so that they vote for the PSOE, for which electoral engineering is being done.

“Right now in La Moncloa there is a map displayed, I don't know if on the table or on the wall, and they know exactly by constituency how many votes they have left for the next seat, that is, for example, those of us who are from Madrid have a harder time because Madrid is a single constituency, like in Murcia, Asturias or Cantabria,” he said, something that is obvious for any party that competes in an election. "That is why I denounce that we are in a popular, populist democracy, that the vote is going to be adulterated, it is a trap because the law allows it. They did it in an hasty manner, they have not stopped modifying the way of voting and the censuses in this second term, because the previous one almost lost by a hair and taking advantage of the law," he insisted.