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The call for early elections in the
Community of Madrid
, decreed by
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
, is still up in the air and threatens to lead to a new legal controversy, since the opposition tries to debate the two motions of censure presented to stop the dissolution of the Madrid parliament.
10.18.
Arrimadas called Casado to tell him that he would not support censorship in Madrid or Castilla y León: "I'm going to sleep with a clear conscience"
They have been hours of tension.
Of conversations, calls, discussions ... The decision of Ciudadanos to ally with the PSOE to unseat the PP from the government of Murcia has shaken the entire political board.
In the maelstrom, Inés Arrimadas called Pablo Casado to tell him that the operation was only limited to Murcia and that the oranges would not support motions of censure in Madrid, Castilla y León or Andalusia, where they share the government with the popular.
The message did not prevent Isabel Díaz Ayuso from betting on advancing elections as a preventive maneuver in the face of censorship.
"I'm going to sleep with a clear conscience because doing the right thing is the difficult thing," Arrimadas said just 24 hours after the political earthquake broke out, with its epicenter in Murcia.
Wednesday's was a mobile morning.
Arrimadas not only spoke with Casado, but also with Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, president of Castilla y León, and with Juan Moreno Bonilla, president of Andalusia.
The message, the same as Casado: that Cs was not going to support motions of censure of the PSOE in these territories.
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10.14.
Montero says that the PSOE is focused on the success of the motion in Madrid and does not know if Robles wants to be a candidate
The Government spokesperson and socialist leader, María Jesús Montero, has assured that the PSOE is now focused on the prosperity of the motion of censure that has been presented in the Community of Madrid against the president Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the early elections called by the president, so she has avoided entering the debate on who would be the socialist candidate in those possible elections.
Asked directly whether the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has been offered to occupy that first position on the Madrid list, Montero has affirmed that she has no record, and that she also does not have "no idea" if she would want to change the Council of Ministers for the Community of Madrid.
"We have never spoken in terms of something other than the responsibilities we occupy," he assured in an interview on TVE, collected by Europa Press, to add that, in any case, "time will have" to address these issues, because now the socialists They are focused on overcoming the "legal mess" that they denounce that Ayuso has created by bringing the elections forward.
10.09.
Ayuso assures that Aguado attended meetings with the PSOE "from behind"
The Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has justified that she has broken with Cs to prevent the left from entering "through the back door" in the region, after her ex-partner, Ignacio Aguado, met with the PSOE "from behind" , and has said that he would like to govern the Community of Madrid alone as the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
"I have no doubt that they were coming to Madrid," Ayuso declared in an interview with EsRadio, where he has advanced that he will not make "big changes" either in his Government or in his electoral list and if he has "possibility" he will have some of his former counselors of the orange formation, such as the former head of Culture and Tourism Marta Rivera de la Cruz.
Ayuso has said that "the machinery" of Moncloa sought to "overthrow" his Government "through the back door" and has claimed to have experienced "unspeakable" situations with Cs, when Aguado "sided with" Moncloa "from behind ", in matters such as hospitality restrictions or perimeter closures.
10.07.
Ortega Smith believes that an electoral advance "is not the best but it is the least bad"
The Vox spokesman in the Madrid City Council and general secretary of the formation, Javier Ortega Smith, believes that an electoral advance "is not the best but it is the least bad."
From the Puerta del Sol, where he has participated in the institutional act of remembrance to the victims of the 11M, Ortega Smith has been in favor of completing the legislatures although he has added that it is complicated when "there are those in politics, instead of being based on principles and values and to be a political force that gives credibility, always plays to the unpredictability and opportunism ".
"Unfortunately there are political forces for which the word loyalty is not in their vocabulary," he has reproached, after asserting that with Vox "they can be safe" because they are "loyal to principles and agreements."
"We are reliable. We cannot expect an institution to the left that lost the elections," he declared, calling it "unfortunate" a situation that "may occur in Madrid, Murcia and who knows. if in Andalusia or Castilla León ".
10.03.
Gabilondo "trusts" Citizens, who must move away from extremes and focus
The PSOE spokesman in the Madrid Assembly, Ángel Gabilondo, has said that he trusts Ciudadanos with a view to a possible motion of censure against the Madrid Government, and has added that it is a party that "must move away from positions linked to extremes. and go centering your position ".
In statements to the press this Thursday before participating in a joint tribute by the Community and the City Council to the victims of 11-M, Gabilondo has affirmed that if there were elections and, after primaries in the PSOE, he would be the candidate for preside over the regional government, he would be "willing" with "strength and determination."
After insisting that "it is not true" the argument of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, that he has dissolved the Government because PSOE and Ciudadanos were preparing a motion of censure, Gabilondo has said that it was a reaction from Ayuso "in front of what happened in Murcia".
09.59.
Errejón does not rule out supporting the Citizens' motion to Ayuso and opens up to "all possibilities"
The leader of Más País and deputy in Congress, Iñigo Errejón has affirmed that they are open to "all possibilities" that go through removing the popular Isabel Díaz Ayuso from the Government in the Community of Madrid and that, therefore, they do not rule out " no scenario "not even the one that goes through supporting a motion of censure by Ciudadanos.
Errejón, in statements to TVE, said that the call for elections signed by Ayuso is a "fraud" and "irresponsible" and was convinced that "if the law is respected" the censure motions presented by Más Madrid and PSOE should be debated in the Madrid Assembly.
"We do not believe that it is necessary or that it is the moment of elections," Errejón remarked, while offering Cs a "second chance" to get rid of the "disastrous balance" of his support for the PP.
09.58.
The PP has "no doubt" that Ayuso will obtain an "absolute majority"
The spokesperson for the Popular Party in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, defended this Thursday that in their formation they have "no doubt" that
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
will obtain an "absolute majority" in the elections that she has called in the
Community of Madrid
.
Gamarra, in statements on TVE, remarked that the leadership of the PP, and its president Pablo Casado, were aware of
Ayuso's
movement
after learning of the motion of censure in Murcia between PSOE and Murcia.
Casado "has supported her and fully agrees" with that move, he said.
The parliamentary spokeswoman insisted that, as the Madrilenian president herself has said, she is "perfectly advised" in the decision-making to call elections and opted for this call in view of the "instability and moral problem" that was "occurring" by the turn of Citizens.
09.57.
Villacís warns of the "danger" that Sánchez and Iglesias "seize power in Madrid"
The vice mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, has warned this Thursday of the "danger" and "risk" of elections in the Community of Madrid given the possibility that the president of the National Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the second vice president, Pablo Iglesias, "seize power in Madrid".
"This is not part of a national strategy; it seems dangerous to me that the door opens in the Community for Sánchez and Iglesias to seize power. I really believe that elections right now is to take a risk that the people of Madrid do not have why accept. It's not serious, "he told 'Telecinco', collected by Europa Press, after attending the tribute to the victims of 11-M.
09.52.
Arrimadas rejects Ayuso's "falsehoods" and says that if Cs wanted a motion of censure in Madrid, he would have promoted it
The leader of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas, has accused the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, of saying "falsehoods" for stating that she has called early elections in the region to anticipate a motion of censure by PSOE and Cs.
As he has argued, if the orange formation had wanted to promote this initiative in Madrid against the PP, it could have done so, instead of refusing as it always did.
"Ayuso has not been able to say more falsehoods, there was no motion of censure in Madrid. If there had been, it would have been presented," he said in an interview on the Cope network.
In parallel to the advancement of the elections by the Madrid president -after breaking Cs her government agreements with the PP in the Region of Murcia and the City Council of the capital-, the PSOE and Más Madrid registered in the Assembly two motions of censure against her.
Arrimadas considers that Díaz Ayuso - who has dismissed his vice president, Ignacio Aguado, and all the Citizens councilors - "has decided to break a government because he had already thought about it" and that the decree calling for elections "had been drawn up since long ago".
09.30.
Ayuso: "I'm going for the absolute. I want to govern alone because I want to give stability"
The acting president of the
Community of Madrid
,
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
, has assured that she is going for the "absolute" majority in the elections to be held in May because she wants to "provide stability" but defends that she will govern "for all" .
In an interview in Onda Cero, the 'popular' leader has revealed that she wants to address those "moderate socialists" who in
Madrid
have identified the policies that she has promoted as theirs, such as "owners of bars, restaurants, merchants, businessmen and middle classes ".
In addition, he has affirmed that he is going for the voters of
Ciudadanos
"who right now have been left without representation" and for "those Vox voters who voted for the PP at the time and who for different reasons" moved away from them.
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