Ayuso embarks on the conquest of 'Fuenlingrado', the socialist bastion in the south of Madrid

• Politics Ayuso proposes a "street" Madrid PP to give "the fight" to the central government and "its totalitarianism"

Fuenlabrada is the only bastion in the south of Madrid where the PSOE has ruled

.

When the so-called red belt was dyed blue a decade ago, it managed to retain its original political color.

Now the PP has put it in its electoral sights with a view to the next appointment with the polls.

For this reason, it has not been by chance that Isabel Díaz Ayuso celebrates there this Wednesday the anniversary of her resounding victory a year ago.

At the headquarters in Genoa they trust that, "this time yes", they will be able to

, as they refer to the fourth locality in population in the region -with 194,000 people registered- behind the capital, Móstoles and Alcala de Henares.

«The PSOE has the mantra that since Fuenlabrada is a working class city it belongs to the left.

But

.

The

discovered that whoever had broken their faces to guarantee their work in bars, in stores, industrial warehouses... was the

that socialism criminalizes, "argues

, PP municipal spokesperson, alluding to the management of the pandemic that the Madrid government made with more lax restrictions than in other places.

Noelia Núñez, spokesperson for the PP in Fuenlabrada.EM

This was one of the reasons why 12 months ago

, 14,000 more than the party in charge of the City Council since the beginning of democracy.

It was not the first time that a popular candidacy was imposed in regional elections - Esperanza Aguirre and Cristina Cifuentes achieved it before - nor generals - it happened with Mariano Rajoy in 2016 -, but the resounding victory was unprecedented.

"The 4-M was a huge shot of energy, the example that there is another way of doing things," says Núñez, who is convinced that this result can be reissued in the municipal elections of May 2023. "There is a

Fuenlabrada is the municipality with the highest number of unemployed after the capital, the second with the lowest per capita income, the one with the highest tax pressure... », he lists.

At the same time, the PP spokeswoman and likely candidate for mayor -although they have not yet confirmed it in the party- highlights the "enormous potential" of the town due to its geographical location, "in the center of the south, between Leganés, Móstoles, Alcorcón and Getafe, 20 minutes from the capital and half an hour from the airport and Toledo».

To which she adds: «The PSOE project is exhausted, they have no management to sell.

In the City Council they oppose that

that Fuenlabrada "has the highest fiscal pressure in the Community of Madrid, neither globally nor in the large taxes separately."

“For example, the IBI rate for 2022 in Pozuelo is 0.425, while here it is 0.421.

The PP would never say that Pozuelo is a fiscal hell”, argues a spokesman.

In addition, they maintain that on the subject of unemployment it is not necessary to "take the total number", but rather "look at the unemployment rate, that is, unemployment with respect to the active population, which is at the level of the area and a little above the regional average.

And they argue that in the three years of the legislature marked by the pandemic, 48,500 educational scholarships have been given, a

has been tested (18 of them "captured" from European funds) and the

project

to recover its commercial and cultural activity.

"This is not at all the black and white city that they want to see in the PP", they say in the Fuenlabrada Town Hall, where they also highlight the arrival of

: the construction of the largest

in Spain in the old Coca-Cola factory, a shopping center with a residence for 600 students and a logistics and industrial space of 44,000 square meters.

"Management has been reasonably good," they conclude.

Javier Ayala, mayor of Fuenlabrada.BERNARDO DÍAZ

In the PSOE they also guarantee that

is the candidate to revalidate his position as alderman after having unsuccessfully tried to lead the party in the region.

"Four years ago I lost the primaries resoundingly and then tripled the result of the PP in a traditionally right-wing site like Soto del Real," defends the secretary general of the Socialists

, who highlights the "courage" of his partner for measuring himself with him in a process that, he assures, has "strengthened" him.

And he adds: “Fuenlabrada is an electoral and municipal management bastion,

for the party.

I've been three or four times with the mayor and he's amazing on the street.

They called a demonstration in defense of public health and mobilized thousands of people.

He has the full support of the public."

In the formation of Ayuso, on the other hand, they are already thinking about his replacement and the

.

"My political dream is to be mayor of my city," confesses Noelia Núñez.

"But with or without me, what I want is for the PP to govern."

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