The Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso renounces to present an equality law throughout the legislature so that the Community of Madrid ceases to be the only region without this type of regulation in Spain, along with La Rioja, which undertook to process it this anus.
This was certified this Monday by the government spokesman, Enrique Ossorio, after a meeting held by the regional president with the PSOE spokesperson in the Assembly, Hana Jalloul, who is the one who has raised the need to face this legal vacuum.
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"Seeing the laws of other autonomous communities, more than laws, one could talk about them being plans, strategies," argued Ossorio at a press conference at the Royal Post Office, where Ayuso also met with Mónica García, the leader from More Madrid.
"It is important to reserve to the law what should be the object of legal regulation, and that something that can be the object of an equality plan, as there is in the Community, be done at that level," he continued.
"That is what we have commented [to Jalloul], that we sincerely think that with a plan, with strategies such as those that already exist, perhaps that law is not necessary."
In video, Mónica García asks Ayuso to hire psychologists to collect the taxes he wants to eliminate.EFE / Javier Lizón / Europa Press
The regional regulations especially ensure equality in matters in which the Communities have transferred powers, such as health or education, and specify aspects already included in the national standard, detailing and regulating them.
Thus, the finding that the Government does not plan to legislate to fight inequality has increased the distance that separates it from the majority of the opposition.
"There are things on which we will not be able to agree, such as that there is no equality law in the Community of Madrid: it does not arise", Jalloul summarized after his meeting with the president.
"We totally disagree, as it cannot be otherwise," the PSOE spokesperson abounded in the Assembly.
The government's position is neither temporary nor temporary.
Without saying so, Díaz Ayuso has made it clear in recent months that he considers this regulation absolutely expendable.
Just before dissolving the coalition government that she had formed with Cs, advancing the elections, the president of the Community experienced one of her biggest disagreements with her then governmental partner.
It happened in March and in the Assembly.
Then, to the surprise and anger of the president, the Equality Counselor of the coalition Executive, Javier Luengo, of Cs, announced that he would bring an equality law to the Chamber.
A proposal that stirred the deepest fears of the PP.
Are you looking for reasons for the clash with the PP in order to justify a motion of censure with the PSOE ?, was the question that ran through the conservative offices while Díaz Ayuso made his annoyance known.
It was the first step towards the early 4-M elections, in which Díaz Ayuso doubled the seats he had obtained in the 2019 elections. As a consequence, since then he has added more deputies (65) than the entire left together (Más Madrid, PSOE and Podemos). That means that the PP can remove most of its initiatives without the affirmative vote of Vox, which still holds the key to the legislature. Everything, therefore, depends on Rocío Monasterio, the regional leader of the extreme right, with whom Díaz Ayuso has met this Monday afternoon without having yet reached an agreement to approve the 2022 Budgets, or to ratify the controversial appointment of José Antonio Sánchez as Provisional Administrator of Telemadrid.
"We are going to undertake the approval of the Budgets," said Monastery. “We are available to see a draft in October. We hope that it will go along the line of reducing taxes that affect all families, and of superfluous spending: advisers, observatories, promotion of ministries… ”, he exemplified. "[We have also] talked about Telemadrid during these days," he explained. “When you want to ratify this [Provisional] Administrator, we understand that a proposal will be presented to us in which you will tell us what your intentions are. The reality is that I neither know the Administrator, nor what is the path that Telemadrid will follow ”, he added, leaving the essential support of Vox on the air.
Monasterio did not like that Díaz Ayuso decided on Sánchez as the main Executive of the public network without first consulting with Vox, despite the fact that the votes of the extreme right are essential to ratify him. And she does not seem especially comfortable with her first decisions in front of the entity. Díaz Ayuso, therefore, will have to negotiate that vote with a party that favors the closure of the public channel over any other option.
When the time comes for the vote - it is still not scheduled, and the Telemadrid law does not set any type of calendar - Vox will demand a document from Sánchez detailing its plans for Telemadrid. What will happen to non-permanent staff? And with the equipment that is not used? Will it continue to be outsourced to production companies? What will the bulk of the 75 million euros available to the entity be used for? Those are the main doubts to be resolved by Vox, according to a source trusted by its leader.
Before Díaz Ayuso and Monasterio started the great issues of the political course that is now beginning - Budgets, Telemadrid - Mónica García, the leader of Más Madrid, has passed through the Royal House of Correos, who has proposed that the president give march behind in the elimination of the three own taxes that the Community of Madrid maintains to dedicate the 3.4 million euros they collect to the hiring of 100 psychologists.
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"We have asked to reverse the abolition of the Community of Madrid's own taxes," García said about the taxes that Díaz Ayuso wants to eliminate, and which account for 0.02% of the region's annual tax collection.
“It is true that they are minimal, and that they may be obsolete, but they are fundamental.
That money can be spent on 100 psychologists, we are concerned about mental health, especially youth ”, he added.
"The answer is a laconic one, we are working on it", summarized García.
This is not the case with the equality law.
A regulation that Madrid may not have while Díaz Ayuso governs.
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