The Assembly of the messes: daughters, brothers and now parents... Madrid politics gets into a fight with relatives

For a few months in the Madrid Assembly, there has been practically more talk about relatives of deputies than about issues that directly affect citizens.

The leading role this Thursday was taken by the father of the PSOE spokesman,

, who works as a lawyer in the municipal funeral home through which the City Council of the capital paid 11 million euros to businessmen

and Luis Medina for the purchase of masks during the first wave of the pandemic.

In said operation, which is being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office for alleged fraud, both commission agents collected six million euros.

The president of the Community of Madrid used this argument to defend herself against the references that, one more week, Lobato had made to another contract for the acquisition of protective sanitary material with which the brother of Isabel Díaz Ayuso received 55,850 euros and for which the socialist deputy had accused her of

"I have the same responsibility over my brother, that is, none, that you have over your father (...). If we are going to play this

tell me why your father authorized and gave his approval to the masks of the City Council", Ayuso required the leader of the PSOE during the control session with the Government.

Lobato later counterattacked, assuring that the Madrid City Council - led by a coalition of PP and Ciudadanos - specifically prevented the legal service in which his father works from processing the emergency purchases that were paid with money from the funeral home.

"It's not that he had nothing to do with it, it's that

he stressed.

In statements to the media, he accused the regional leader of having

: "She knows the decision that the PP took in the City Council, that the funeral company pay the amounts of those emergency contracts, but that It was the City Council that processed them to prevent these contracts from going through the legal services of the funeral home where my father works".

"Whoever has taken more than a quarter of a million euros is the president's brother, who should give explanations and not try to divert attention with such crude lies," added the PSOE spokesman, referring to the

that the Ayuso's team acknowledged that his relative had received payment from the Priviet Sportive company in a message sent to a group of commentators, although only 55,850 euros have been officially recognized.

Hours later, Juan Lobato Jr. appeared again with

also in the Assembly.

The lawyer then explained that the management of the funeral home signed an agreement with the Madrid City Council so that the Consistory itself would receive the offers of sanitary material, select them and subsequently send the delivery note, the invoice, and the invoice to the financial director of the company. and a notification that he "never ever" saw, as he claimed, to "make the payment."

In the team of José Luis Martínez-Almeida they did not clarify whether the father of the leader of the PSOE authorized the purchase of masks by the municipal funeral home and limited himself to reproaching the left for starting up

brothers war

A month ago, the usual weekly scuffles between Ayuso and Mónica García in the Madrid Assembly led to a war of brothers

The president defended herself against criticism of hers for the commission of the purchase of masks, attacking that of the spokeswoman for Más Madrid.

"If we start talking about family, my brother has never been a public official. His brother, yes. By the way, set aside for doing nothing," said the regional leader, alluding to the dismissal of

as a neighbor member of the Moncloa-Aravaca district because, according to

, he was "the one with the lowest performance among his peers".

Previously, the leader of the main opposition group had blamed Ayuso that during the pandemic the lowest incomes in households in the region have decreased by

and the highest have increased by

: "Let's see if looking for a gap in his busy personal schedule and doing something for the families of Madrid, not just for his own".

The daughter accused of swindling UGT

Two weeks ago, the Socialist Group in the Madrid Assembly decided to withdraw "all responsibilities" from the deputy

, whose daughter is being denounced for fraud against the UGT.

The decision was made to "protect the interest and development of political action" of the party and also "the image" of the affected party, according to Lobato.

In the party they considered that the secluded parliamentarian "not at all" had something to do with the alleged

from the union for which her relative worked as an administrative worker and in which she herself has held various positions.

However, a sector of the party considered that every time they talked about Ayuso's brother in the PP they were going to "counterattack with his daughter."

"Before giving me lessons in education and parliamentary respect: I look at who I want, I speak as I consider and I do it where I decide.

that you can propose to your fellow socialists," the Madrid president reproached Lobato right in plenary the next day.

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