Vox surprises the PP and offers the left a commission on residences in the Madrid Assembly

Vox has caused tremendous anger in the PP of Isabel Díaz Ayuso on Tuesday by facilitating that the left can form a study commission on the residences of the region in the Madrid Assembly.

“We are surprised and saddened, because Vox has joined the strategy of the far-left,” said Pedro Muñoz Abrines, the spokesman for the PP parliamentary group, which until now had used its majority in the Chamber to block any attempt to investigate. the more than 5,000 deaths in these centers during the worst of the pandemic, and any option to analyze what the system's deficits are.

In fact, the PP took advantage of the fact that it controls the Parliamentary Table to prevent More Madrid from activating an initiative similar to the one that will be voted on this Thursday in plenary session, which will happen thanks to Vox,

who processed it in November 2021 and then put it away in a drawer, without starting it up.

Until now.

“Our position is that we have activated the residency committee and that it will be voted on in the next plenary session,” said the spokeswoman for the extreme right in the Assembly, Rocío Monasterio.

“I understand that [the left-wing parties] are going to vote in favor, because it is very important,” she added.

"We have a moral obligation to improve the situation of our elders, build a system that guarantees them that they can be calm, well cared for," she continued.

"I'm counting on them to support us, because it would be spectacularly cynical if they didn't support us."

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"What Vox has done surprises and saddens us, because it has joined the strategy of the far-left, play into the hands of Mónica García, and publicize the sale and promotion of a book," Muñoz Abrines countered.

He was referring to they will

(Libros del KO), written by Alberto Reyero, who was a counselor for Social Policies with Citizens, and in which he describes the evasiveness and coldness of the popular side in the Ayuso Government in the face of deaths in the centers for the elderly.

“What serious analysis can a commission do that in the best of cases can meet in three months?

Does anyone think that this is undermining the dignity of families?”, he asked himself, since the Assembly will be dissolved next March so that the elections can be held.

"It's the opposite: they're being ripped off."

The clash between PP and Vox comes at a doubly key moment.

On the one hand, the two parties will begin in the next few days to negotiate next year's budgets: however long the negotiation takes, both parties have expressed their interest in it coming to fruition.

On the other, the May 2023 elections fuel conflicts between the two formations: both will fight in a few months to seduce the same voter pool.

Few things better reflect this tension of opposing interests, which brings closer and further away at the same time, than the controversy that has surrounded regional residences since 2020.

The deaths in these centers began to be investigated during the last legislature, when the PP was in the minority and depended on Ciudadanos.

The government coalition is broken, and with Ayuso in a sweet moment after the 4-M elections, Vox was willing to resume investigative work in the current legislature.

It never happened.

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Ayuso intervened in public to accuse Monasterio of throwing himself into the arms of the left.

This she corrected.

Until now, although with an important nuance: the previous commission was an investigation, so it focused on clarifying the responsibilities in deaths in residences, while this one will be a study, with which it will be limited to studying improvements in the system .

If Vox obtains the support of Más Madrid, PSOE and Podemos in the vote this Thursday, it will have the necessary votes for the commission to see the light.

Although the foreseeable thing is that the four parties ally themselves, neither that of Mónica García nor that of Juan Lobato had clarified their position at the time of publication of this article.

Yes, that of Alejandra Jacinto has done so, and she will support the commission, although she would have preferred it to be an investigation.

“We are going to support everything to improve the conditions of the residences”, they have explained in Podemos.

"But his commission falls short because they want to do a study of what is currently happening, but leave Ayuso's management in residences uninvestigated during covid."

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