Interview "There is no duel between us. We have complicity. And we would like nothing more than to celebrate the arrival of Casado to Moncloa"
Isabel Díaz-Ayuso culminated this Monday the first part of her visit to the United States with a working meeting with various investment funds in New York in which she defended her fiscal policy as attractive to continue placing the Community of Madrid on the
radar of the foreign investments
. A meeting from which no specific projects emerged but which ended satisfied because she was able to see first-hand the interest that her region arouses abroad.
The Madrid president sat on Monday at a table in the
Fogo do Chao
restaurant
with representatives of a fortnight of funds such as
BlackRock, Compass Group, Van Eck or Greylock
, during a
Brazilian
lunch
in which the popular leader shelled, one by one, the reasons why Madrid has become the most competitive region in Spain and a pole of attraction for foreign investment.
Between
picanha
and
feijoada
, he pushed his chest out for his region as the locomotive of national growth with a contribution to
GDP of almost 20 percent
. A community where 71 new companies are created every day and that so far in 2021 not only 60% of the foreign investment that arrives in the country, but a thousand companies that had their headquarters in other areas of the country have been come to install Madrid.
After lunch, he assured that his interlocutors conveyed their concern about the central government's tax policy or electricity rates and sent a message to Moncloa. "As a government and as a country we have to reform our tax system to make it more attractive and with less bureaucracy," Ayuso said. "If the fiscal policy is to raise taxes, the first harmed is the Community of Madrid and that is why we are going to continue
defending that they make the market more flexible
and lower taxes," he insisted.
From New York, he also took the opportunity to criticize the intention of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to decentralize the institutions of Madrid as a proposal to stop
depopulation
.
"It is again a frontal and direct attack against Madrid and of course we are going to do everything in our power to prevent it," warned the popular leader.
STAR PROJECTS
The star dish of his presentation to investors, who showed him special interest in projects such as
Nudo Norte
, the reform of the
Canal de Isabel II
or urban developments such as
Valdebebas
or the renewed
city of Justice
, was the tax attractiveness of betting on Madrid , and repeated his mantra: a community that does not have its own taxes and that will lower the income tax "so as not to scare off investment."
It also seasoned the Madrid menu with its other key ingredient, the standard of living enjoyed by its citizens, with first-class public services, the best hospitals in the country, the fifth largest metro network in the world by number of stations and the region with the
best connectivity in Europe by 4G
and fiber optics.
"Adding is always good, sowing always brings benefits", summarized Ayuso before ending his visit to the Big Apple, where he landed yesterday with a defense of the Castilian.
"I believe that the trip is not only not being in vain, but it is giving us many ideas of where we should continue," he concluded.
The Madrid president began the day by giving an interview to the opinion director of
The Wall Street Journal
newspaper
in the imposing Sorolla Room of the Hispanic Society and closed the day with
Michael Bloomberg
, the president of the Bloomberg agency and all-powerful former mayor of New York, before moving to
Washington
to continue with this visit where this Tuesday he will be received by the secretary general from the OAS, Luis Almagro, and will attend the annual Leadership for the Americas awards gala, which will culminate in his meeting on Thursday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
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