Isabel Díaz Ayuso usually raises her already tense tone against her rivals every time the media focus is on the irregularities in her environment. The strategy has been repeated this week, after the statements of his partner, Alberto González Amador, and his chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, during the trial against the State Attorney General in the Supreme Court. The president of the Community of Madrid has avoided explaining or clarifying the lies that both uttered as witnesses forced to tell the truth and since Wednesday she decided to turn on the fan of expletives against the left. Ayuso once again talks about the existence of a “regime” in Spain and, without further arguments, considers that the PSOE is “the worst thing” the country has had.
To break the silence that she had maintained at the beginning of the week and launch her first attacks, the Madrid president first chose the medium of Federico Jiménez Losantos, EsRadiowhere he went on Wednesday night. It was the day in which three journalists dismantled the accusation against the attorney general in the Supreme Court and one after his partner and his chief of staff testified in court. “I have never seen so many journalists disrespecting the work of others,” said Ayuso, who without giving names spoke of “the regime's journalists” and said that “they are true public charges, not public positions.” “They charge three times what I charge and they don't assume any type of responsibility,” he concluded.
“You need this to be a fight between the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, between the Supreme Court and the Prosecutor's Office, between Genoa or between Sol and Moncloa,” he added, without specifying further or saying who he was addressing. And regarding the trial of the attorney general, accused without evidence of having leaked the email in which the lawyer for Ayuso's partner acknowledged that his client had committed two tax crimes, Ayuso said that it had “always” been talked about “as Ayuso's case.” “The only thing I aspire to is for the truth to be known, for the law to be applied and what has happened here to be known. And I will assume whatever it has to be,” he added. He continued with the following reflection: “How can it be that a man alone with his lawyer is on one side and so many prosecutors and journalists on the other? How can Moncloa be involved in the middle, the Chief of Staff and the other? It is an abuse of power and institutions.”
Practically 24 hours before Ayuso uttered these words, both her partner and her chief of staff testified before the Supreme Court, presenting themselves as victims and maintaining some of the hoaxes that they have been repeating in recent months. If the State Attorney General sits on the bench, it is precisely because in March 2024 Miguel Ángel Rodríguez tried to intoxicate several media outlets by ensuring that the Prosecutor's Office had offered an agreement to González Amador when in reality it was the opposite and that it had been stopped “by orders from above.” He even leaked an email that was part of a chain to try to support his argument that later turned out to be fallacious, as revealed by several media outlets, including elDiario.es. During the trial he acknowledged that he had no “source” and it was just a “logical deduction.”
“I want it to be clear that as a result of the attorney general's leak, my life has been destroyed. What can happen is that either I leave Spain or I commit suicide,” González Amador even said on Tuesday, before the Supreme Court. He, who defrauded the Treasury of more than 350,000 euros and who used false invoices to try to justify his large income as a commission agent during the worst of the pandemic, at all times presented himself as a “normal citizen” persecuted by “the entire fiscal body” for his personal connection with the president of the Community of Madrid.
“There is no one in Spain who doubts it (…). For five years, the entire State apparatus has been plotting everything to attack a political rival,” Rodríguez, for his part, stated before the Supreme Court. He also falsely said that the Treasury “has not allowed González Amador to reach an agreement.” Without being interrupted by the president of the court or by any member of the court, the same Rodríguez who, when elDiario.es published the first information about Ayuso's partner, threatened to close this media outlet, once again opted for disqualifications. “I have too many things to do to put up with leftist journalists,” he declared, when asked about the contrast work carried out by elDiario.es. “I didn't pay more attention to them because they are scandalous,” he added at another time. “They usually call with things that are lies and that they cannot then publish,” he said, before considering that the attempt to confirm information from this medium is “one more bravado from this type of press.”
Ayuso has never disavowed Rodríguez for his mistreatment of the press, not even when his chief of staff said he was going to “shred” this newspaper in a WhatsApp conversation with Esther Palomera, deputy to the director. This Thursday, the Madrid president avoided giving explanations about the attitude of her partner and her chief of staff before the Supreme Court. “They are only deleting cell phones, saying 'I don't remember', 'I don't know', always obstructing the work of Justice and always hiding the truth,” Ayuso limited himself to telling the left during the control session of his government in the Madrid Assembly.
On Tuesday, asked directly if she continues to defend that Miguel Ángel Rodríguez did not lie when he told several journalists that it was the Prosecutor's Office that had offered an agreement, she refused to answer: “They are not going to put me in this situation, I have nothing to do with it. I continue to insist on absolute respect for the court and the work it is doing.”
In the regional parliament, the regional president repeated some of the insults against the left that she had already said on Wednesday. In her opinion, the Government “is committing crimes at such a speed” that she is already preparing for the plenary sessions “early Thursday morning.” Pedro Sánchez's is, in his opinion, an Executive “that is eaten away by corruption.” He also spoke about ETA. “It seems to me that the worst corruption is the person who supports the investiture pact that is with Bildu, with the political arm of terrorism in Spain.” And without anyone interrupting her, Ayuso said that the Government's project “is a war-civilist” and “totalitarian” project. For the Madrid president, Moncloa's objective is to “make coexistence impossible” and “make half of Spain hateful” so that “any crime or corruption weighs less.”
Ayuso has contributed to the discredit of the institutions practically since his arrival to the Presidency of the Community of Madrid. He represents the most radical sector of the Popular Party and, despite repeating over and over again that Spain is a “dictatorship” or that Pedro Sánchez's is a “totalitarian project”, he has no problem disqualifying the Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers whenever he has the opportunity. This strategy worsens every time news becomes known about your partner's case.
