• War The PP files Ayuso between insinuations of corruption and opens the door to his expulsion

  • Politics Ayuso acknowledges that his brother charged a commission but affirms that it was legal

  • Investigation The audio between the Madrid City Council and the detective: "We can meet to contrast information that has come to me"

On

January 11, 2019,

Isabel Díaz Ayuso was practically a complete unknown beyond the walls of Génova 13. That day Pablo Casado named her the PP candidate for the Community of Madrid at a time when the party's brand was devalued by corruption cases and no

heavyweight

wanted to head a list of deputies who could end up sitting on the opposition bench in the Vallecas Assembly.

Casado chose her simply and simply because he had blind faith in her.

They had grown up politically together in the shelter of Esperanza Aguirre.

Since he had to make a risky bet, unless it was for someone who wasn't going to betray him.

"If they were like brothers"

, summarizes a leader of the formation and a friend of both stupefied at the drift of events.

Three years later that seemingly indestructible personal relationship is in tatters.

March 10, 2021

The spigot of the total rupture is located in the resounding victory of Ayuso at the polls in May of last year.

Two months earlier, the Madrid president had called early elections against the criteria of the party's national leadership, which had previously stopped that attempt.

On this occasion, Díaz Ayuso firmly brandished the threat that

Ciudadanos

, who was then his coalition partner in the Puerta del Sol Government, could present him with a motion of censure with the

PSOE

, just as he had just done in Murcia.

May 4, 2021

The move was round for the president: the socialists went from being the winners of the 2019 elections to collapsing;

Pablo Iglesias did not even take the deputy act of him as spokesman for

Podemos

;

the orange

formation

, which had the Vice Presidency and six portfolios in the bicolor Government, stayed out of Parliament;

and

Vox

barely grew.

She was only four seats away from the absolute majority and with more deputies alone than the entire left together.

"I like it when plans go well," she wrote that night her chief of staff,

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez

, on his Twitter account.

Summer of 2021

After the electoral count, the cracks between Genoa and Puerta del Sol began to grow at a forced pace.

In his tour of the media after the victory, Ayuso slipped that he would also

like to lead the PP in Madrid

to the horror of the national leadership, which did not want a reissue of the accumulation of institutional and organic power that it had once had. Aguirre.

On August 31, she confirmed at an informal breakfast with journalists that she would present her candidacy.

September 2021

From that moment events accelerated.

The Madrid president found out that there was an "operation" against her when after the summer she went to Casado's office to talk about the party's situation.

He told her that there was "a dossier" linking her to

"some matter of corruption"

, especially referring to her family, leaked from La Moncloa and that "I thought it was illegal", as she reported this Thursday in her appearance.

October 20, 2021

A few weeks later, the party's general secretary, Teodoro García Egea, personally informed Ayuso of the opening of "a procedure of good practices" to carry out an "internal investigation" given the information received about

"an alleged collection of a commission"

by part of his brother in the intermediation of a contract awarded without competition by the Community of Madrid to a private company, a "usual protocol in these cases" that "does not prejudge anything".

As number two of the popular ones points out, Ayuso was summoned to "provide more information in vain", because "no clarification" had been received.

Fall 2021

Meanwhile, the

popular

baroness continued to publicly demand the convocation of the regional congress so that the militants could decide who should control the PP in Madrid, with a provisional leadership since Cristina Cifuentes resigned almost four years ago due to the

Master's case

and the dissemination of a video stealing creams in a supermarket.

Casado's entourage, for its part, denounced an attempted "coup d'état" against the leader by the most liberal wing of the party.

December 2021

Ayuso received the “rumor” in the first weeks of that month that “the services of a private investigator had been hired or tried to be hired” from the Grupo Mira company at the request of a position from the Municipal Housing and Land Company ( EMVS) of the Madrid City Council.

On the 16th, during a joint act with the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, at the Venta del Batán, he tells him in an aside and he replies that "he didn't know anything and that he would investigate it."

In parallel, the public clashes continue between the two halves into which the PP is already clearly divided, in this case on account of Genoa's order to cancel the party's Christmas dinners, citing the increase in infections due to the omicron variant in the sixth wave of the coronavirus: in Puerta del Sol, on the other hand,

January 12, 2022

The PP starts the new year with the apparent purpose of

leaving behind the wear

and tear that its internal war was causing.

At a breakfast at the Hotel Ritz with the candidate for the Castilla y León elections, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, Ayuso and García Egea staged a truce after months of escalating tension.

She also told journalists in a circle that she had recently spoken with Casado twice, once to congratulate him on the holidays and another after his positive for Covid.

February 13, 2022

The Madrid president turns to the Castilian-Leonese campaign and intensifies her presence in the neighboring community during the last week after the drop in expected votes for the PP that the polls predicted.

She in total she participates in seven acts and grants several interviews.

Mañueco's pyrrhic victory ends up giving more luster to the one she herself had reaped nine months ago.

«What was at stake here was whether 4-M was a personal triumph for Ayuso or the inertia of a change in the political cycle.

And the message has been clear:

it was a triumph for her »

, analyzed a senior party official in the midst of an electoral hangover.

February 14, 2022

Not even 24 hours after the scrutiny in Castilla y León,

the party's internal

tensions surface again .

In an interview on Telemadrid, the spokesman for the regional government once again calls on the PP's national leadership to convene the party's regional congress "as soon as possible."

She did the same at an informative breakfast the next day in which she also distanced herself from the official Genoa line regarding avoiding by all means that Mañueco has to govern with Vox.

"That we do not care what the left thinks of our pacts," she encouraged during her intervention.

February 16, 2022

EL MUNDO reveals that

an internal investigation was carried out

in the Madrid City Council on the EMVS at the request of the complaint about the alleged espionage on Ayuso's family that she herself had transferred to Almeida.

In recent weeks there had been confrontations between officials of the municipal company to find out the reality of these events and the conclusion was that there had been no such commission.

February 17, 2022

The Madrid president summons an appearance without questions at Puerta del Sol in which she admits that her brother charged a commission for mediating in the award of a contract from her Government to a private company, but assuring that "there is nothing illegal" and in the one that accuses Casado himself of trying to destroy it in a "cruel" way.

The PP announces later that the file between insinuations of corruption and

opens the door to expel her

from the party led by someone who was almost like hers, another brother of hers.

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