• Politics Pedro Sánchez aligns the calendar of European funds and vaccines with his campaign in Madrid

  • Economy María Jesús Montero dismantles Gabilondo's promise not to raise taxes before 2024

When lending a hand, it is not around the neck.

This is what the PSOE candidate, Ángel Gabilondo, might think, after seeing how the entry of members of the Government, including President Pedro Sánchez, in the Madrid elections has turned against him.

And it is that, yesterday, he suffered two setbacks regarding taxes and the pandemic that have ruined a substantial part of the construction of his campaign speech.



The most relevant is the one that has to do with his promise not to raise taxes in the two-odd years that the legislature will last.

Gabilondo has made a fiery defense of this despite the fact that its potential partners,

Más Madrid

and

Unidas Podemos

, they demand to address it.

Well, if that enthusiasm of his possible allies already made it difficult for him to haggle the issue, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, finished dismantling the commitment of her partner, expressing her confidence that the tax increases will come into force in 2022 of Patrimony and Successions and Donations, through a fiscal harmonization that it wants to implement before the end of the year and that would significantly affect the Community of Madrid.



The "special interest" expressed by the Minister of Finance for forcing increases in these specific taxes of autonomic competence collides head-on with the coup launched by Gabilondo a few weeks before in which he promised "not to touch taxation on these two years".

The socialist candidate, aware that the PP could turn it into one of its electoral weapons, argued at the start of the pre-campaign that it was not the "time" to address this debate and justified that "the situation puts the matter in something else" .



The minister's plans undermine Gabilondo's credibility and give wings to his rivals.

Especially the PP, which has turned the news into a battering ram against Gabilondo, whom it accuses of being a "liar."

"Caretas fueras", warned the Madrid president and

popular

candidate

,

Isabel Díaz Ayuso

, about the news.

"Take your hand to the portfolio. This is the fiscal hell that awaits us," cheered the leader of the PP,

Pablo Casado

.



On the other hand, there is another fact that has turned against Gabilondo.

And it has to do with the use of the pandemic by Pedro Sánchez to campaign against Ayuso.

The reference voice of the Government in the fight against the coronavirus,

Fernando Simón

, denied the president, for maintaining that the Community of Madrid falsifies the data of infected.

"I am not aware that the data is false," said the director of the Center for Coordination and Health Alerts and Emergencies about the assessment made by Sánchez in an informal conversation with journalists.



Simón pointed out that there may be some delays in the delivery of the statistics but stressed "beyond that I do not believe that any surveillance service of any community is knowingly falsifying data. Not at all."



With the same forcefulness that he denied the President of the Government, Simón also did it with Gabilondo himself, who also campaigning with Ayuso's management said that in Madrid there was a greater risk of dying from Covid than in other parts of the country.

"The fatality is similar to that of the rest of the communities and the capacity to manage the cases is similar to any other," Simón replied when asked about it.



Thus, in the press conference on Monday, Simón dismantled two of the new arguments of the PSOE to attack Ayuso.

And, as with taxes, the PP found new ammunition for its campaign.

"Simón also says that Sánchez is lying," declared Casado.



Ayuso has also sarcastically commented on this accumulation of blows to the Government, playing with the idea that it is "Tuesday and 13 for the left."

Thus, he has compiled the latest news: "The Government, between laughter, announces the increase in taxes to Madrid; on May 3, processed; 2,500 judges denounce Sánchez in the EU for the violation of the rule of law in Spain; Simón denies Sánchez with the pandemic. "


On the other hand, and also about the coronavirus, the controversy over the request for information from the Community of Madrid on the Russian vaccine still rages.

Carmen Calvo wanted to stop Madrid by rejecting that the autonomies can make decisions that "do not guarantee the equality of all Spaniards."

Criticism that was extended to Castilla y León for stopping vaccination with Astrazeneca.

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  • Pedro Sanchez

  • Angel Gabilondo

  • Isabel Diaz Ayuso

  • Maria Jesus Montero

  • PSOE

  • Pablo Casado

  • Fernando Simon

PoliticsRecelos in PSOE and PP for the decision-making power of Iván Redondo and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez in the Madrid campaign

4-MPedro Sánchez presents in Ferraz the 'President Gabilondo' campaign for the Madrid elections

Elections in MadridCasado and Ayuso accuse Sánchez of "patrimonializing" vaccines and using them as an "electoral weapon" for the 4M

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