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Updated Monday, March 25, 2024-9:50 p.m.

  • Politics Ayuso places Joaquín Leguina as advisor of the PP quota in the Chamber of Accounts of Madrid

Joaquín Leguina (Villaescusa, Cantabria, 1941) responds to the call of EL MUNDO calmly just a few hours after his jump to the Accounts Chamber of the Community of Madrid by design of the PP of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Who was the first socialist president of the region, expelled by his party in December 2022 citing support for Ayuso herself in the campaign, now highlights "greater harmony" with the

popular

leader than with those who are part of the ranks that he swelled.

Why have you accepted that position, Mr. Leguina? I have accepted it because I want to be directly or indirectly attached to the Community of Madrid of which I was the first president even though the PP has proposed me.

Indeed, the former president is one of the five names that the

popular people

have put on the table for this new stage of the Chamber of Accounts after the legislative modification proposed by the regional government.

This modification meant eliminating the need for a qualified majority of two-thirds of the Madrid Assembly for these appointments

, replacing it with an absolute majority of the Chamber and increasing the number of councilors of the body that oversees the contracts and expenses of the regional government to seven.

This reform was included in the Omnibus Law that the Community of Madrid managed to carry out with the absolute majority of the Popular Group in the Assembly, which yesterday proposed Francisco Cabrillo, Graciela Soledad García, Carlos Salgado, Ana Cossío and the aforementioned Leguina as advisors, who will receive a salary of more than 100,000 euros per year. For its part, the PSOE has chosen

Otilia Armiñana; More Madrid, to

Verónica López Sabater

, and Vox, which has been especially critical in recent weeks of the reform, does not have any place on the Council.

Has the economic issue influenced the decision? No, I didn't know until it appeared in the newspapers. I do not know this institution because it was created when I had left the Presidency, it was created by Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, but well I will have to stop collecting the pension that I collect now but I assure you that I have not done it for money If you do not know the institution, do you see qualified to exercise the position of controlling the GovernmentMy resume is suitable for this position, it is not the same as other former presidents. At the Institute of Statistics I have kept the national accounts, I know something about that. Do you understand the criticisms of the PSOE? Does this legitimize his expulsion in which he was accused of supporting Ayuso? They did not expel me for that, the documents that I have do not make any reference to my having supported Ayuso. Since this is in a judicial process that I put in, I don't want to talk, but we will see in the end what the investigating judge decides. Whoever proposes it, this is a memory of someone who has been president of the Community, I don't see why anyone is angry. If you were general secretary of the PSOE, would you understand it? Have you spoken to anyone from your former party? I have a personal relationship with people from the PSOE in Madrid, but they have suspended me from membership, they have mistreated me and the current leaders have not said a word, they have not defended me.