The Pope is a populist and someone had to say so. It is the message from Isabel Díaz Ayuso that has had the longest journey so far on her American tour.
While the PP convention train made a stopover in Madrid, its president responded from Washington, with the White House in the background, to the special envoy of Telemadrid. The journalist asked about Francisco’s statements “in which he apologized to Mexico for the sins committed in the Spanish conquest” and Isabel Díaz Ayuso managed to put Pope, nationalists and communists in the same sentence.
“It surprises me,” said the Madrid president, “that a Catholic, Spanish-speaking, Spanish [nació en Buenos Aires] think and express this, and on the other hand, I regret that Spain is always criticized, the Spanish company, the Spanish legacy, the history of Spain. It is criticized by the nationalists, the communists, the populists. Everybody criticizes the interests of Spain all the time. I say that someone will have to say something about it. Are we going to allow one of the best countries in the world to always have these black legends on top? Those of us with government responsibilities have to defend the truth and claim what we are, one of the best countries in all aspects. We are always subjected to the same by the same enemies. There, of course, I cannot remain silent ”.
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A few hours earlier, the president of Mexico, López Obrador, had already fallen for “promoting indigenism, which is the new communism.” Ayuso’s words provoked curious reactions in Spain. Vox allied with the Madrid president and against the communist Pope and Mónica García, from Más Madrid, made a thread on social networks recommending the 2020 encyclical.
Asked if he was going to meet with a member of the Administration of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, Ayuso clarified that he was not: “We are not looking for him.” During his appearances, he denounced the risks of “historical and Manichean revisionism”, despite the fact that his party questions in Spain that the Civil War began with a coup. And he attacked those who criticize Spain when the objective of his trip, in addition to “strengthening ties”, is to present Madrid as the Gallic village of Asterix, a liberal refuge in the reign of bureaucracy and “confiscatory” taxes.
A journalist reminded him that there are many Latin American immigrants in Madrid, and asked him how he married his defense of the Hispanic and of miscegenation with “a partner with an anti-immigrant discourse”, alluding to Vox. Ayuso replied: “His message is mainly aimed at talking about security matters. I am not looking for the union or the discrepancy in that sense. Each defends its policies. I believe in integration. Now we are mainly looking for points of union in other matters and the relationship is good ”.
Meanwhile, at home, the barons of the PP try to mark distances with Vox and take advantage of the convention to “widen” the party.
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