Isabel Díaz Ayuso has moved to Puerta de Hierro. The information, reported by El País, has not been expressly confirmed by the Madrid president, but has been indirectly confirmed by her chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who has reacted in X to question the publication of where she lives. “What interest is there in publishing where the president lives?” MAR asked. With their protest, Ayuso's entourage has ended up accepting a move that occurs at a particularly delicate moment for the real estate policy of the Community of Madrid.
The president has left the apartment in Chamberí that she shared with her partner, Alberto González Amador, and has settled in an urbanization in Puerta de Hierro, one of the most affluent areas of Madrid. Their new home has between 130 and 150 square meters, a swimming pool and garage, and the rent for a property of these characteristics is between 2,500 and 3,000 euros per month.
The move comes a few days after the Madrid Government has put up for sale the other large property that has marked Ayuso's summer. The 485 square meter penthouse in Chamberí that the Community bought for 6.3 million euros. And it is precisely the coincidence between both operations that once again raises a question that the regional Executive has not finished answering: if the penthouse was not intended to be the president's home, why was it bought?
The sequence of the operation also does not help to clear up doubts. The Community of Madrid acquired the property through the public company Planifica Madrid and initially justified the purchase by the need to have a temporary work space during the works on the Puerta del Sol headquarters. It later denied that the penthouse would be used for residential purposes. And finally, just a few months after acquiring it, he decided to put it up for sale for 6.7 million euros. The operation has also ended up in court, with complaints that question different aspects of the purchase.
Ayuso's new house does not in itself demonstrate what the purpose of the attic was, but it does add an element to an operation that already accumulated unknowns. The president has not settled in the property purchased by the Community, but in another apartment, this time for rent. If the penthouse was never intended to be your residence, it remains to be explained what public need justified paying 6.3 million for a 485 square meter home. And if the purchase had some relationship with Ayuso's residential needs, as the opposition has maintained, his move to Puerta de Hierro once again makes it more difficult to refute that hypothesis.
It is at this point where Miguel Ángel Rodríguez's tweet becomes relevant. Ayuso's chief of staff has confirmed the move by questioning the journalistic interest of reporting on where the president lives: "What interest is there in publishing where the president lives?" The question shifts the focus to Ayuso's privacy, but leaves intact the issue that affects public management: what interest justified the Community allocating 6.3 million euros to buy a property that it now wants to sell.
Because the problem is not where the regional president lives. Not even how much he pays for his new rental. The problem is what led the Madrid Administration to buy a 485 square meter luxury penthouse, what use it intended to give it and why it decided to get rid of it so soon after.
The operation, far from being closed with the sale, thus accumulates a new unknown. Ayuso already has a new house. The Community, however, still has to explain why it bought the previous one.
