Ayuso-Casado: Madrid is a problem for everyone, also for Madrid

This Wednesday, a thousand businessmen met in Madrid to vindicate the Mediterranean railway corridor. The periphery often feel the need to express themselves in the capital. And he does not do it to convince the people of Madrid but to a part of them: the high officials of the State (in his head they were talking about the Levante corridor) and their political leaders. So when we say that someone is demonstrating in Madrid, what we are saying is that they are protesting to the State.

Countries with federal capital do not suffer from this contradiction, but in the Spanish imagination Madrid is a construct that perverts many debates, political and economic. This confusion has a direct impact on the internal life of the parties so that, if we look at it, the three big parties in Congress have problems with their local Madrid organization. Because nobody knows exactly what Madrid is, if a simple stage or the brain of the State.

Ayuso spoils Casado’s party

As explained this week Luis Sánchez Merlo in these pages, the cockfight with Isabel Díaz Ayuso It has tarnished the message of unity that Pablo Casado managed to launch after the PP national convention. This tension collapses the informative screen quotas of the PP, both in the like-minded and hostile media. The leaders of the periphery have been disappointed by denouncing this suicidal attitude that leads to delusional episodes such as the leak of WhatsApp or the blocking between leaders of the same party in the chats. But the battle between the lieutenants of one and the other has not stopped, quite the contrary. It is a battle for power, which could possibly be fixed if Casado hired Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Angel Rodriguez as an advisor, just like in Aznar’s time. But it also has a political background, many regional presidents of the PP know that they cannot lower taxes like Ayuso simply because they do not have the income derived from the capital. They say in a low voice what Ximo Puig from the PSOE proclaims to the four winds. It happens with taxes as in the meteorology of certain media in which when it rains in Madrid, it rains in Spain.

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In fact, Redondo fell in the capital

For long storytelling to put you now, seen with the perspective of time, the July government crisis was the direct result of the defeat of the PSOE in the regional elections in Madrid in May. Political, business and journalistic leaders save on their mobiles the messages of Iván Redondo, then Pedro Sánchez’s chief of staff, arrived until noon of those elections announcing the imminent victory of Ángel Gabilondo who hours later reaped, and not because of his fault, the worst result in history. Redondo definitively fell into disgrace after that episode in which, once again, Madrid was the board of the struggle for power in the State, without taking into account at all the people of Madrid who are not high officials of the State or directors of multinationals with tariff in the BOE. Since the time of the second republic, as Tarradellas recalled, the Madrilenian Socialist Federation has been the stone in the PSOE’s shoe. And he has not governed since 1995 with Joaquín Leguina.

Errejón, the version of Podemos

Also in the political space of United-Podemos, Madrid has a unique role. In those May elections, Iñigo Errejón’s party, Más Madrid, doubled the Podemos led by Pablo Iglesias in seats. One of the possibilities that Yolanda Díaz manages in the construction of her new electoral brand is to reach a pact with Errejón that leaves her the electoral space in Madrid free, where Podemos would not be presented, in exchange for not replicating in other autonomous communities the brand More ... Again we are in the same, Madrid as a platform to control the State or Madrid as an autonomous community with environmental, health, educational problems, etc. After the setback of the 2006 Statute, the pro-independence version of Catalanism abandoned its effort to transform the State, tired of the fights with that Madrid that is its material incarnation. Fourteen years later, he could have many unexpected allies in that transformation if he regained interest in making it.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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