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Salvador Illa has come into play today in the pre-campaign of the PSOE for the elections of the Community of Madrid with a very aggressive speech against Isabel Díaz Ayuso and in which he has openly confronted about the management of the health crisis.

Without the ties that he had when he held the position of Minister of Health, he has revolted against the Madrid president to accuse her of not having been "loyal" during this year and the peak of the pandemic and of having been more determined to "attack the Government" than in "protect" the citizens of Madrid "when it was most needed".

"I tell you in the first person because I have lived it. The Government of Madrid has not been loyal," he stressed in a ceremony in Madrid to cover the socialist candidate, Ángel Gabilondo, and his number two,

Hana Jalloul

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"When we most needed to row in the same direction, some have taken the opportunity to continue twitching," he reproached.

An argument that has finished by cataloging Ayuso to represent "anti-politics, fanaticism and the spectacle".

"It is not necessary for me to tell you where all this leads," said Illa, playing with the idea that Ayuso has a behavior similar to that of independence in Catalonia.

A premise on which he has elaborated at another time, assuring that it is because of him that Madrid is installing "the dynamics of tension and division" that exist in Catalonia.

"A government that is not interested in management, that expels its partners and makes us go to the polls out of sheer partisanship and convenience, and they can only get worse," he warned, because he believes that if Ayuso returns to govern after the May 4 "will return to competition between extremists, chronic instability and division."

"Defend Spain in Madrid"

Illa pointed out that today "a Catalan proud to be one defends Spain in Madrid, because defending Spain is defending institutional loyalty, which has been so important in saving lives, companies and families."

And that he considers that it does not exist on the part of the Ayuso government because "mismanagement and an evident lack of institutional loyalty" are aspects that "have been accentuated throughout this pandemic year."

Faced with that, Illa has exclaimed that "the joke is over."

"Today the revolutionary is the sensible thing to do," he stressed, "today the real change is to passionately defend the right to stability and coexistence."

The leader of the Socialists in Catalonia has argued that the contrast to all this is represented by Gabilondo and his commitment to "moderation" against those who, in implicit allusion to Ayuso, confuse "bravery with radicalism."

Illa has claimed that he contested the tension in Catalonia and that Gabilondo also wants to fight it in Madrid to get him out of the "mess and chaos."

"The time has come for the moderates to make a choice on May 4: either the courage of a serious government or the anger; or the courage of common sense or the government against Spain in the Plaza de Colón."

The former minister, who has also defined himself as Gabilondo "dull, serious and formal", has defended both believe in the policy of "reunion" and that which seeks to "build bridges" with dialogue and agreement against the one he intends " dig trenches. "

Gabilondo calls to avoid "the Government of Colón"

In his turn to speak, Gabilondo has also identified with this policy against those who disdain agreements and dialogue, cataloging it as a "weakness."

With this, he has reached out to "all Democrats of any condition" to "avoid the Government of Colón."

"We cannot allow Madrid to be a community governed by the extreme right," he said, "let's bet on a serious government before it is too late."

In this sense, he has proposed to mobilize against "extremisms" to govern "seriously" and "stop this misrule and this folly in health management."

"We are faced with a dilemma: there are only two options: either democracy or fear; or hope or confrontation. And it is a matter of choosing: either a government seriously to govern seriously or the government of the Plaza de Colón", Gabilondo has underlined.

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  • Isabel Diaz Ayuso

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