With cries of "president, president" from more than fifty militants and sympathizers in the Colón Market, an emblematic place in the noble Ensanche neighborhood of Valencia, Isabel Díaz Ayuso was received. The president of the Community of Madrid - who "reflects like no one else what the women of the PP are like", according to her host, Mayor María José Catalá - made a plea to change sides of the "fear" stirred by Pedro Sánchez and the PSOE at the arrival of the right.
"They talk now about the fear of change, it will be about changing La Moncloa for Soto del Real. The fear today is of picking up a bird, of being an artist and not having an award or a subsidy, of having your house invaded or occupied. The fear is of criminalizing normal life and normalizing crime," the president argued under applause.
Ayuso reviewed a socialist campaign, "which began protesting against their own disastrous management of housing, when they don't give a damn, and now with the public." "Spain is in disarray. Corruption kills and we have had to see it. They were worried about stealing from their embezzlements. They have created a small world with public money. They have dedicated themselves to being power holders. These elections are about those who work and those who live and those who work," he proclaimed before attacking the unions for the general strike called for next Wednesday the 11th.
"The only thing they know how to do is the revolution. And the silent unions. Where have they been these eight years between seafood platters and seafood platters? Canapés with Yoli. They want us to stay in a country of mileuristas, which multiplies poverty to penalize wealth. They want to protest against alternation and that is called mafia. They use the people to say that they serve the people," he added.
The president also alluded to the latest arrests of Pedro Sánchez's collaborators in the first days of 2017. "A gang was born in Peugeot, first robbing the polls of their party. They are all on their way to Soto del Real and there is only one who was not listening to anything. Were they listening to Radio María or Parchís songs? Or who parked the car when they stopped at a brothel to hire a public advisor. As José Luis Rodríguez Joyero said, to be a socialist is to have little and give a lot. It means having little shame and giving a lot," he proclaimed.
Feijóo, essential
Díaz Ayuso, who also raised the specter of Catalanism, reviled the Historical Memory Law for confronting the Spanish and vindicated the pacts, not without remembering how she climbed to the absolute majority. "The right is coming... but we are already there! It cannot be with the pact or no pact, with what the survey says. We are going to get there, we are going to change," he said before ensuring that Feijóo is "essential." "Because he will comply. Surely. Because we have never experienced this. The fear is ours, it is his. He has to restart Spain. There are no more opportunities."
Ayuso, before attending this meeting, in a street corner format that overwhelmed the organizers, went to the food market in the Cabanyal neighborhood, a few meters from where Pedro Sánchez held his rally yesterday. Ayuso walked the corridors accompanied by the leadership of the Valencian PP, with Pérez Llorca and María José Catalá, and the heads of the list. He received some boos from the shopkeepers, while he was playing over the public address system, but they also yelled at him that he deserved a monument, according to close sources.
The president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, claimed how the PP can walk down the street "without needing armored cars, because we can hear constructive criticism and the support of the people." He also thanked Ayuso for sending urban buses from the Community of Madrid during the dana and, above all, he launched into encouraging voting.
"What I want is for you not to be overconfident and go vote. Because Pedro Sánchez did not come to say that he was going to do the anti-raid works, that he was going to build homes, to fix the infrastructure... they came to chant for Óscar Puente. A minister who has not resigned and is still a deputy," said the president without remembering that the ministers leave their minutes when they are.
Llorca showed his chest for the management of the Generalitat, with lower taxes and improvements in public services, "making the Community smile again by governing without irritating." "Imagine what we are doing alone if we have a government that supports us. They are more than a national election. We cannot leave anyone without asking them to go vote. This time, Sánchez is going to the streets," he proclaimed.
Catalá's challenge: "Let's see if he puts Sánchez in a market"
The mayor of Valencia, head of the Congress list, also attacked Sánchez and his 'armored' visit to the city a few hours earlier. "We go out into the streets, because we are not afraid to talk to people. Let's see if they have the nerve to put Sánchez in a market or go to the street to confront people," he challenged.
For Catalá, the PSOE has left the public "in bones", "without budgets, with high friends, with the Prosecutor's Office investigating European aid... We are not equal, of course not. Sánchez yesterday came to do a franchise rally that he could have done in Toledo with his driver."
The mayor drew an ideal future with Feijóo for the city of which she said she wants to remain mayor "as long as you want." "He committed to the sawmill tunnel, the through tunnel. That is why he needed to take a step forward, because I believe in Feijóo, because he is going to be the best president, who is going to regain credibility and that the Spanish people are never going to be divided again. Let's live peacefully in freedom again."
"I stand up for Feijóo, for my president. I ask you to vote together and with one question: who do you want to manage the future of your children?"
These are the choices of our lives. We are deciding between democracy or tyranny. Let's get Pedro Sánchez out of Moncloa," he concluded.
