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Updated Thursday, February 15, 2024-23:57

It will soon be four years since those terrible days of March 2020, when the impact of covid left Madrid and all of Spain frozen. The wave of death devastated the capital, initially punishing nursing homes especially. Yesterday this issue caused one of the most tense moments of the course in the region's Assembly, in a hint of what may happen in the next plenary sessions. The opposition continues to accuse

Isabel Díaz Ayuso

of having left a sector of the population, the most sensitive to the first and fierce coronavirus, to her fate. She defends herself by remembering the complete chaos and overflow of hospital centers, with no room to receive medical attention. The regional president and the new leader of the opposition raised their voices loudly yesterday in the Vallecas chamber.

The management of the residences in the first wave of the pandemic unleashed hostilities. The president, in a visible tone of anger, reproached Más Madrid for "speaking without humanity" about those who died in the pandemic when "there were deaths everywhere, in homes, in hospitals, in nursing homes (...) "They were not saved anywhere." He reproached the leader of Más Madrid for "doing merits" to be a Government Minister, in reference to Mónica García, because she speaks "without caring about the truth or the victims" because they know that in that "time" the "only thing they did was tweet » and «they can't stand it». Ayuso reiterated that it had to be the Community of Madrid that explained "the situation in Spain" in which the Government of

Pedro Sánchez

"did nothing, as it did not even know where to start" in the face of a health alert and it had to "be Madrid whoever raised the alarm."

For his part, Bergerot once again accused the regional Executive of creating "their protocols of shame" with which they "condemned thousands of elderly people to die" "without going to a hospital, drowned, without medication" and, for this reason, they are "hiding" the records of the Municipal Police. At that moment, the president of the Assembly, Enrique Ossorio, called the attention of the deputies of the Más Madrid bench: «Ladies and gentlemen, shut up now. We cannot continue like this (...) They are continually talking, gesticulating. They have good speakers, use the word and do not interrupt,” pleaded the former Minister of Education.

The PP spokesperson,

Carlos Díaz Pache

, disfigured the Más Madrid deputies "for their lack of education, their lack of respect, their lack of humanity, their shamelessness", which has "become evident once again." "Please respect this Chamber, this Plenary, because it means respecting the people of Madrid." «The Community of Madrid did well during the pandemic. The regional government did it well. The professionals did it well. We Madrid people did well and the only ones who fail here are always you," the popular man remarked.

Another of the morning's topics was the PP proposal, supported by Vox, to promote a unique Baccalaureate and University Access Assessment (

EBAU

) throughout Spain, while PSOE and Más Madrid defended that it was unviable due to the differences between autonomies. . The Popular Party requests to promote this test to guarantee "the equality of Spanish students regardless of where it is taken."