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The aparthotel where the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP), has resided since she tested positive for the coronavirus and a contract modified by the Ministry of Social Policies, in the hands of Ciudadanos (Cs), has been the ingredients of the latest controversy to join the neat collection that already accumulates the first coalition government in the region. Just nine months after its constitution, the seams have tightened even more this week than it was already being almost a general trend.

The zenith of the new controversy was reached this Friday with the announcement by the regional leader that he would open an "internal investigation" in the department led by Alberto Reyero to clarify responsibilities. Immediately afterwards, the also deputy of the orange formation went ahead to that imminent audit, notifying the dismissal of its technical general secretary, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, as "maximum responsible" for what he described as "a human error of an administrative nature" .

However, in the Díaz Ayuso team - which he claims to have learned of this news from the press - they specify that it is up to her to authorize the removal of senior officials after consideration within the Governing Council, in which the PP has a majority of members. Likewise, they assure that they will not take a decision on it until the procedure that is going to start to get to the bottom of the matter has been completed.

Luxury suite

The soap opera began this Tuesday with the publication in Vanity Fair magazine of a report on the luxury suite near Plaza de España and overlooking the Temple of Debod of the Room Mate chain in which Ayuso has been staying since last March 16. . In an interview in El Confidencial a few days earlier, the president herself had explained that she had installed her office in a hotel room and that she slept in the one below.

Following the disclosure of the name of the establishment where the regional leader began her quarantine and continues to live temporarily after being discharged, Kike Sarasola's company was quick to ensure that her client would pay the bill "personally". As it is a "long stay" use, the stipulated price is 80 euros per day , 120 euros cheaper than the usual rate.

Just that same Tuesday afternoon, the existence of a contract worth 565,000 euros was awarded, precisely awarded to Room Mate, which in addition to housing Ayuso in his most exclusive establishment, has transferred to the Community of Madrid two others for the transfer of elderly people healthy living in residences with infected with Covid-19. In the Ministry of Social Policies they attributed to an "error" that the name of the hotel company appeared on it because the owner of the same must be the Platform of the Third Sector, since it is the provision of personnel for the social and health care of the elderly , according to the version of the Reyero Ministry, of which they are suspicious in the PP wing.

"Strange hours"

"Here the only strange thing that there has been has been a contract that has been uploaded casually wrong and that a journalist has just found out and the moment he has met him they have taken it down at a few odd hours," Ayuso said yesterday in a intervention in the regional Assembly when Más Madrid asked him about the aparthotel - which he assured that he will pay out of pocket - hinting at the possibility that there had been a leak by Cs . In addition, it announced the opening of an "internal investigation" on the matter.

Three hours later, Social Policies informed journalists through a statement that the "maximum responsible" for the management of the controversial contract , the technical secretary general of the area, had been dismissed , thus dismissing the controversy. However, the president's team later pointed out that it is she who has the competence to approve the dismissals of senior officials and that she is not going to rush into making the decision.

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