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Isabel Díaz Ayuso first met her Governing Council nine months ago now. After weeks of long and tense negotiations with Vox to obtain his investiture, the president of the Community of Madrid posed smiling with all the members of an unprecedented two-color Executive in the history of the Community of Madrid , seven from the PP and six from Ciudadanos ( Cs).

The photo of two apparently well-liked political families soon cracked. Only a few days later the controversy over a matter with personal connotations for the top autonomous leader - the investigation into Avalmadrid's loan to a company owned by his father that was not returned - began to undermine trust between the two coalition partners.

Since then, the deterioration of this kind of marriage of convenience has been gradual until reaching its climax this week as a result of another controversy that directly affects Ayuso's intimate life : the aparthotel where he confined himself two months ago when he tested positive in the coronavirus test and where you have continued to reside after being discharged.

The regional president came to announce on Thursday in the Madrid Assembly the opening of an internal investigation in the Ministry of Social Policies, one of which controls Cs, to clarify responsibilities for the realization of a contract in the name of Room Mate, the chain owner of the suite where he is temporarily staying, worth 565,000 euros . The person in charge of said area, the also orange deputy , Alberto Reyero, anticipated this audit, communicating the dismissal to a high position as "maximum responsible" for what he described as "a human error of an administrative nature".

Motion of censure

With the Autonomous Executive located in increasingly mobile terrain and after the strategic movement of approach to Pedro Sánchez by Inés Arrimadas in Congress in recent days, the prediction that in Madrid there will be a motion of censure with the one that until now Ayuso's partner will end up giving the keys to the Puerta del Sol to the socialist Ángel Gabilondo , winner of last year's elections. It has even been set as a date: May 25.

However, the PSOE and Cs are not maintaining contacts of any kind - as EL MUNDO has been able to confirm - not even to talk about the reconstruction project against the Covid-19 crisis proposed by the former to the rest of the groups in the Vallecas Parliament. , to whom he has sent this week a document with generic proposals. And this despite Aguado's public statements regarding the need to reach an understanding with the main opposition party against the PP's criteria, which has already said that it will not agree "with the disaster."

"Citizens would not forgive us that with more than 13,000 dead we will not be able to sit down the three most voted political forces and reach agreements," the regional vice president has come to say publicly. But in the orange formation they recognize that the "constant attacks" from the Sánchez Executive to the one in Madrid and the declarations of socialist leaders such as Rafael Simancas criticizing the management that has been made of the Covid-19 emergency , today remove the possibility of a pact even on something apparently as basic as the economic recovery of the region.

Early elections

Dismissed the conjecture of a motion of censure, also in the own national leadership of Cs, the other tab that has moved these days on the board of speculations has been the early call for new regional elections, which is a power that Ayuso has in exclusive. This theory is based on the rise in the PP predicted by the latest surveys made public, which entail a demonstrative decline in its current partner, which could facilitate a government exclusively dependent on Vox, although most sources consulted in the different parties classify this hypothesis in the field of "political fiction".

Those who do consider it a viable option point out that, in any case, the call would not take place as soon as after the summer, since "the Government's efforts are now focused on planning the de-escalation of the state of alarm and health care in the face of a possible outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic ». The impossibility of approving the Budgets -for the moment those of 2019 continue to be extended-, given that the fragmentation of the regional Assembly would require the seamless union of the center-right, it could be the spigot of this advancement of the appointment with the polls.

Reciprocal mistrust

But in the here and now Ayuso and Aguado have to continue sharing an Executive now shaken by an unprecedented health crisis and undermined by the mutual distrust that their partners are processing. Especially striking for those attending the celebration of San Isidro this Friday at the Madrid City Council was the conversation that the leader of Cs in the region had with that of the national PP, Pablo Casado, long and in full view of all, in an official act in which he barely exchanged a greeting with his partner in the Governing Council.

The only thing in which the president and vice president have apparently agreed recently is the convenience of requesting the passage to Phase 1 of the de-escalation, even against the technical criteria of the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, who asked them to wait for a week more. Still, that well-matched family photo they took together nine months ago does nothing but turn yellow.

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