• Politics Tension between students with shouts for and against Ayuso on his return to the Complutense

The visit of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University to receive her distinction as an illustrious student continues to add reactions.

To the cries of supporters and detractors upon her arrival at the center, the reaction of Juan Lobato, general secretary of the PSOE in Madrid, has now been added, who

has accused the regional president of "provoking" and "turning the people on

. "

"I think that Ayuso should go to the university to listen to how it is underfunded and is leaving it lying around," said the spokesman for the Madrid socialists, during the taxi drivers' demonstration this Tuesday on the Paseo de la Castellana.

"

That a candidate uses three months before the elections to a university to whitewash her name, I think it is not acceptable

," he added before stressing that the regional government "has left the Madrid universities without funds."

"

I always agree with people giving their opinion. Going to provoke and ignite people as Mrs. Ayuso likes

, to generate conflicts instead of consensus is not the most appropriate thing," concluded Lobato, who has defended in this way the protests at the door of the university that have taken place upon the arrival of Isabel Díaz Ayuso and that have subsequently spread to the interior of the campus.

There was a meeting between a group of students, some from leftist groups, who rebuked the

popular leader

shouting "fascists out of the university" or "the Complu is not for sale, it defends itself"

both upon her arrival and upon arrival .

his departure.

And, on the other side, another group of members of New Generations of the Madrid PP, led by its president, Ignacio Dancausa, replicated.

In the auditorium, the tension did not decrease either when one of the students recognized with the best average grade of the past year, a 9.28, took advantage of her speech to charge against the decision of the Faculty and against the popular leader.

"

Are you doing something for us, Mrs. Ayuso? I think not

," said Elisa Lozano, who also threatened to tear up her university degree - "I'm not doing it because I don't know if it's illegal" - and stressed that "the true illustrious "It was his classmates who were demonstrating outside, the teachers and his mother.

"I don't know who has decided that I am the best in the promotion, I suppose the same person who is going to give the award to Mrs. Ayuso. Today is a day of mourning because they have thrown us to the ground," she asserted.

After his speech, the confrontation in the stands returned with the New Generations group booing and barely a dozen students standing up applauding.

And, exactly the opposite, when the regional president took the stage to thank her for the award.

Before it started, the vice-rector for Institutional Relations, José María Coello, defended that this was an award "above ideologies" because

the Complutense "supports difference and diversity" as a public university

, while a group of students and professors They left the room when the

popular

leader was going to appear

.

Ayuso began his speech by alluding to the "university self" and the "return to the essences" for his return to the Faculty of Information Sciences.

"I know that it has not been easy, that these are not quiet times, but what is more important than teaching plurality and respect," said the regional president, who added that freedom of expression is "the most attacked form of freedom in the world today."

"I have always defended being one more, that's why I regret that sometimes this [the political confrontation] stains these acts," she remarked.

The popular leader emphasized her gratitude to the rector and his team for the award "as has been done in other universities with other representatives of the world of politics" and criticized, in her only reference to the protests, "those who wanted to prevent her from receiving this recognition and freely participate in this act".

"It would have been more incoherent [the absence] because I defend a public university for everyone

," Ayuso concluded.

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