Ayuso prepares his landing in Catalonia

Isabel Díaz Ayuso surfs her own wave.

The good data of the pandemic in the region are combined with events for the press prepared to the millimeter.

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He wants to sell to Spain that his pandemic surgery is a model of success.

So much so that, according to regional sources, this Thursday and Friday it will land in Catalonia.

Here he will meet with businessmen, hoteliers and spokesmen of the educational society.

Ayuso will go to Barcelona with the intention of appearing on all national televisions, radios and newspapers.

The president now seeks to capitalize on the good data of the Community.

He does not want to visit the newspaper library.

Madrid was the focus of Europe just two months ago and is the region with the most deaths from coronavirus.

But that, for the president, is already past.

Now he wants to sell Madrid as an example.

And what better way for its voters - and the potentials of Vox - than to set foot in Catalonia for two days.

The president flies alone again in the PP.

The trip is a declaration of intent.

Not only because of the proximity of the Catalan elections, but because it represents a blow to the management of the Generalitat: in favor of closing the hotel business in order to save more lives.

No regional president has visited another region to sell his management of the pandemic.

Ayuso, yes.

It will be the fourth time in less than a year that I have set foot in Barcelona.

The euphoria of the data was contained until a few days ago.

The Executive did not want to launch the bells to the flight.

Now the plan is to sell the management with great fanfare.

Ayuso's Christmas campaign will begin with a visit to Catalonia and will culminate on December 1 with the inauguration of the new Isabel Zendal hospital.

He has even invited by letter — lately the relationship between the Community of Madrid and La Moncloa is through a postman — the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, whom he has criticized on numerous occasions and whom he called a "philosopher" for directing the Health portfolio with Philosophy studies.

The letter, signed by the president - who is a journalist by training - only has three short paragraphs.

But the phrases are politics in its purest form.

"As you know", writes the president, "it is a center built in record time and has the will to provide services to any Spanish citizen."

The reality is that the hospital is a month late.

The number of toilets who will work is still unknown.

No parliamentary group of the Community has been invited to the inauguration.

And the Spanish health system, in addition, serves all citizens wherever they are from, but Ayuso takes advantage of any loophole to sell where he can that Madrid is Spain.

"I hope that the minister will answer the invitation soon," he said on Tuesday.

The president summoned the media at the Botín restaurant in the capital.

A whole tablecloth institution in Madrid.

This family business claims to be the oldest in the world and serves delicious suckling pig roasted in an oak wood oven.

The president's team summoned the press here to put a stamp on the door.

The appointment itself did not have much more, but in the call they wanted to play with the doubts.

Nothing new.

They all do it politicians.

The call spoke of new measures for hospitality.

The reality consisted of sticking two stamps on the door.

They alert the citizen that here they eat in a safe place.

Coronavirus free.

The stamp that Ayuso stuck says: "We are ready."

The other indicated the capacity of the business: "47".

More than 3,000 establishments already wear this badge in the region for several months.

However, this hotel event was attended by the president of Madrid businessmen, Miguel Gutiérrez, the vice president of the region, Ignacio Aguado, and two councilors.

The person in charge of Tourism, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, and the man of the Economy, Manuel Giménez;

both of Citizens.

The act also served to verify that, despite the latest good data, the relationship between Ayuso and Aguado continues the same as always.

Every man for himself.

The vice president was late for the appointment.

They didn't expect it.

- How's the president, how is she? Asked the chief of businessmen when he saw her.

Ayuso went to the appointment in a blue linen dress.

It was ten in the morning.

The cold wasn't keeping up with the outfit, but she cut the talk right away:

- I have not caught a cold since 1920. Now, I caught COVID the first, he answered.

And it unleashed laughter from the Citizens councilors, who expected their vice president to attend on time.

But he was late.

The entourage, therefore, got fully into the premises.

The initial idea was for the president to leave after a few minutes.

That he put the happy seal on the door after a brief meeting between everyone inside.

Suddenly, Ayuso walked out the door five minutes later with a notebook in his hand and told reporters: “I have come to take command.

Do you want coffee?

- President, I wanted an Isabel Zendal type breakfast, said the La Sexta journalist with joke.

- I wanted an orange juice, but from Citizens, the one from Cuatro also inquired.

Ayuso, smiling, covered the two questions with sarcasm.

"The oranges from here are very good, like my Government."

Later, yes, he attended the media.

"I hope that the Ministry of Health explains the plan for Christmas this Friday.

Politicians cannot enter the personal realms of each one.

It has been a success that schools and restaurants are open ”.

The hallmark of the restaurant was an advance.

Ayuso rehearsed his speech before his imminent landing in Catalonia.

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