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Isabel Díaz Ayuso is the only person who has access to the button that can activate an early call for elections in the Community of Madrid, which under normal conditions would not have to be held until 2023. And the regional president would have pressed it a few days ago if it were not because in Genoa they have stopped their attempt to call the ballot boxes just one year after the last elections, as EL MUNDO has learned.

The tensions that he maintains with Ciudadanos, his partner in the Puerta del Sol Government, have been constant - and staged in public - practically since the constitution of the coalition last August, but during the coronavirus crisis they have worsened, among other things, due to the controversy over the aparthotel to which the regional leader moved after becoming infected: the allegedly "by mistake" award of a voluminous contract of 565,000 euros in the name of the owner of the establishment by the Ministry of Social Policies -al in front of which there is a counselor, Alberto Reyero, of the orange formation - finished eroding the already battered mutual trust .

But the key element of the equation is that of the internal surveys in Genoa, which predict an exponential rise in the number of Ayuso deputies in the Vallecas Assembly if the elections were now called to the detriment of those of his still ally, supported by his pandemic management. Although the actual parliamentary arithmetic would depend on the verdict of the ballot box, on the demonstrative role a coalition with Vox falls within viable options .

The sources consulted indicate that the president had even gone so far as to request that the decree of dissolution of the regional Chamber and call for new elections be drafted , although in her environment they deny it. Regarding whether it was the party's own leader, Pablo Casado, who personally ordered her to forget about the project, they simply point out that they "speak frequently."

"Apart from the unnecessary risk of losing a government that already exists , it would mean dynamiting the national alliance with our reference partner," argues a PPP leader. «The pact with Cs is working very well throughout Spain, in Andalusia, in Murcia, in Castilla y León, in the Madrid City Council ... Wherever we have it, people are happy and working, dividing up their roles, it is a pact beneficial for both, except in the Community of Madrid ”, he adds.

In his opinion, both should "be aware that the situation transcends themselves and even Madrid, it is essentially national policy": "We must swallow our pride, that each one has their space to shine and make head things. And I think they try, but then management tensions cross, as with the issue of residences, and the PSOE does not stop pouring salt on the wound , which complicates everything.

Motion of censure

In fact, the threat of a motion of censure by the main opposition group, which in any case would require the participation of Cs to prosper , is another of the variables that conditioned the president's decision: in the event that This parliamentary mechanism was activated to remove it from power - it only requires a simple administrative procedure - elections could not be called.

The main supporter of this frustrated operation, according to all the sources consulted, has been Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Ayuso's chief of staff. It is also the merit of the former Communication Secretary of José María Aznar that she acquired a national profile during the health crisis with her strong opposition to the Government of Pedro Sánchez, although internally in the party it raises doubts that in the long term the strategy will not be counterproductive.

In public, the regional leader has always denied that she intended to call new elections just one year after it was held. «I am obliged to stay together and try it, because I believe in a project where we are Vox, PP and Cs, and if I already have it, we have to try it (...). There is no need to do more experiments, "he said in an interview on esRadio two weeks ago about the bipartite he leads thanks to the support of the radical right-wing group.

Since then, when the confrontation between the Health and Social Policy advisers, Enrique Ruiz Escudero and Alberto Reyero, one from each coalition party, was booming over the 6,000 deaths in residences, the tension between members at least apparently has been lowering. At least for now, the electoral button is not going to be pressed.

Remodeling of the Government in September

The management of the economic crisis that will follow the health crisis caused by the coronavirus currently monopolizes the concerns of the Government of the Community of Madrid, but in neither of the two parties that form the coalition do they rule out its remodeling after it in August the first anniversary of its constitution is celebrated.

The most feasible move would be the departure of the Health advisers, Enrique Ruiz Escudero (PP), and Social Policies (Cs), protagonists of the controversy over the management of residences. Although in the first case the decision of a hypothetical dismissal would be exclusive to the president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, she would not have the endorsement of Genoa, where Ruiz Escudero's management of the crisis is highly valued. The future of Reyero is in the hands of the vice president, Ignacio Aguado, who currently defends him in public with the same firmness as the head of Health, ensuring that both "have left their skin".

The other option contemplated is a reduction in the number of councils, which multiplied from nine to 13 in the negotiation of the legislature pact to accommodate the aspirations of the two coalition partners. This movement would allow Vox, which is actively and passively demanding a reduction in "ineffective political spending," to be content and pave the way for the approval of the Budgets.

As for the date, one of the possibilities is that the announcement of the restructuring was made during the debate on the state of the region, in early September, a formula previously used by former Madrid presidents Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón and Cristina Cifuentes .

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