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Updated Friday, April 5, 2024-00:02
Politics The Assembly will sanction Rocío Monasterio with 15 days without pay for her irregular vote, the lightest possible punishment
Vox's political moment in the Community of Madrid goes through an open confrontation with Isabel Díaz Ayuso that has already lasted 15 months, a space and an electorate in which the regional president has found a fishing ground for her project and now a sanction for its spokesperson, Rocío Monasterio. Her irregular vote from the seat of the absent deputy José Luis Ruiz Bartolomé on February 1 has cost her 15 days of salary as a deputy after the investigation carried out by the Madrid Assembly.
However, this sanction is the minimum that the leader of the radical right party faced, who could have been suspended from her minutes for between 15 days and a month. The report prepared by the
popular deputy
Mercedes Zarzalejo
, with a doctorate in Law, will be ratified today by the Regional Parliament Bureau, but parliamentary sources confirm to EL MUNDO that they will point out that Monasterio "has no record" and that is why the reduction in the sanction.
Although the document will confirm that the vote was irregular and was done "intentionally
. "
Yesterday, Vox defined the sanction as "unfair" and discredited the fact that the Board had produced "a leak" about the sanctioning report before, as they claimed, the person involved had been notified. "If this leak were confirmed, Ayuso's direct order to President Ossorio would be consummated,
thus violating the separation of powers,
to condemn Rocío Monasterio for trying to shut down a seat that should never have worked because it did not belong to anyone," they indicated from the Monasterio team, referring to Ayuso's words on February 8 when he opened the door to his suspension.
"If you go on a road where you have to drive at 80, they catch you at 140, whether it is called Monasterio or Vox, you will understand that you will have to be fined," Ayuso asserted during the control session with her Government, where she added: «
What has not been seen in life in this Chamber, at least when I am a deputy, is that another deputy who is absent is voted for
. Something basic and that he still blames us, the president of the Chamber, the technical means as he always does.
The origin of the discrepancy lies on February 1, in the first plenary session of the year in the regional Parliament, by a vote cast from the seat of the former Vox deputy, José Luis Ruiz Bartolomé, who that same week had renounced the minutes to return to the private company, and whose successor, Javier Pérez Gallardo, had not yet been officially sworn in. The vote corresponded to an amendment to the entirety presented by Más Madrid against the Circular Economy Law, a proposal that was rejected by the absolute majority of the PP.
However, the confrontation between the two center-right parties dates back to December 2022 due to Vox's refusal to approve Isabel Díaz Ayuso's Budgets on the eve of the 28-M regional elections. Precisely in those May elections,
the right-wing party lost almost two points and two deputies
, practically the same percentage that the PP won. In fact, the CIS pre-election survey in the region already warned that the candidacy of the regional president could win one in three voters who had supported Rocío Monasterio in the 2021 electoral call.
The absolute majority garnered by the regional president has also caused Vox's message to be diluted in the regional Parliament by
not having the legislative force to condition the decisions of the regional government
, something that had happened in the two previous mandates. In fact, the radical right party managed to prevent the implementation of the deduction for foreign investors, which has just started processing again this week, or the creation of a Cybersecurity Agency, already approved.
All of this in a climate of absolute rupture between Vox and PP, where there has hardly been any contact since December 2022, as confirmed by both sides. Yesterday, for example, Monasterio criticized Ayuso's position on his official trip to Chile regarding the situation in Spain. «
If I were president of the Community of Madrid, I would not talk like that about my country
», She concluded.