With Juan Lobato already confirmed as the PSOE candidate for the regional elections in May and with Mónica García consolidated as the commitment of Más Madrid, in the absence of the internal primary processes being held in the formation, both spokespersons opt to close the legislature for rising as leader of the opposition to the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

The latest electoral results, those of May 2021, place the doctor in that place by percentage of votes after the

sorpasso

on the left flank.

But the recent appointment of the general secretary of the PSOE-M as a candidate has spurred the socialist caucus to do battle in the final stretch towards the polls.

In fact, yesterday, during the government control session,

Lobato even challenged the regional president to hold "a face-to-face" on fiscal policy "on her Telemadrid or even with Carlos Alsina, wherever you want."

“Here is the PSOE candidate for the Community of Madrid”, closed the spokesman from his bench before the gaze of Ayuso who in his reply condemned “the hypocrisy” of the left in terms of taxes by criticizing the elimination of the Heritage rate in Andalusia following Madrid.

The popular leader cited former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and former PSOE-M secretary Tomás Gómez asking for the elimination of this tax.

«We must eliminate the Wealth Tax since it affects the middle classes in a special way.

[...]

It is transitory, extraordinary, and its abolition is a stimulus so that saving is not penalized in this country

", Zapatero pointed out in 2007. "The elimination of the Wealth Tax is a progressive project because it tries to ensure that the people of Madrid do not pay an unfair tax that was born with a causal, census and non-tax character, which has only collection purposes, ”Gómez assured that same year.

It was precisely in fiscal policy where Mónica García also wanted to show her strength as leader of the opposition, pointing to the regional Executive because "it kneels in front of the rich and abandons the elderly who worked for our services" and "encourages to fiscal parasites.

"

They have allowed Madrid to be the refuge for all the jerks who have amassed their fortune during the crisis

and who do not want to contribute to the common good," stressed the spokeswoman for Más Madrid, who also pointed out that the appeal of the Community of Madrid against the energy decree of the central government is "a way to look for a little house".

"Reduce the price of electricity and not so much taxes on the ultra-rich."

In contrast, Ayusó, as he did the day that Juanma Moreno announced that he was eliminating the Wealth Tax in Andalusia, once again placed Madrid as "a paradise" before the "boycott" of the central government.

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In the face of policies that call for sadness, darkness, fear or despair, which is what you live on, the people of Madrid are going to move forward

," he remarked in defense of his management.

Regional government sources do not assess the role of both opposition spokespersons, but they do indicate that "the left in Madrid does not understand what Madrid is" and add that "it is very difficult to introduce yourself by an acronym whose heads at the national level are constantly harming the Community of Madrid from the central government by illegally closing the region in a pandemic, preventing the region from passing the phase under political and non-health criteria with a non-existent committee of experts, raising taxes on citizens ... ».

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