Vox compares Ayuso with Casado: "He has chosen disloyalty and rupture"

The Vox candidate for the Presidency of the Community of Madrid, Rocío Monasterio.ZIPI (EFE)

If the war for power in the Community of Madrid is made up of multiple battles, the toughest is between the PP and Vox.

Facing the elections on May 28, Isabel Díaz Ayuso aspires to an absolute majority.

For this, she needs to seduce the more voters of the extreme right, the better, despite the fact that the candidacy of Rocío Monasterio already demonstrated in the 2021 elections her capacity for resistance: she improved in votes and deputies despite the boom of the Ayuso phenomenon.

Since then, the two parties have been parliamentary partners and rivals at the same time.

Until they failed to approve the 2023 Budgets: that day a harsh political confrontation broke out to distribute the blame for the failure that continues to be disputed months later, and more so now that there is a month left for the municipal and regional elections.

"The PP could have chosen the interest of the people of Madrid before their electoral interests, but it chose the electoral path, the wrong path, the path of disloyalty and a break with us, which we did not deserve," Monasterio said on Tuesday about the fiasco in the negotiations to approve the Budgets, when the conservatives refused to turn a blind eye to the delay in registering the far-right amendments, which arrived six minutes after the deadline.

"(...) This undeserved rupture reminded us of other high-profile and clumsy ruptures, such as that of Mr. [Pablo] Casado with those words he said about 'we have come this far", he added, referring to the first motion of censorship that Santiago Abascal sponsored against Pedro Sánchez, and that the conservatives always interpreted as directed, in reality, against them.

"Well, that's how it sounded to me when Mrs. Ayuso told us 'that each one follow her path,'" Monasterio continued during an informative breakfast organized by the Nueva Economía Fórum.

And he finished: "Both are very similar in their essence, and in the constant declarations of high command of the PP that every day what they want, it seems, is to reach out to the PSOE, they say, to a PSOE without Sánchez, and that they ask agreements so that the most voted lists govern in order to put an end to Vox (...

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The comparison of Casado and Ayuso is loaded with poison.

First, because the baroness and the former conservative leader fought a bloody civil war in the PP that has turned them into eternal enemies.

Second, because Casado's will go down in political history as a weak leadership.

And third, because Casado failed in the project to reabsorb Vox to unify the right-wing vote again.

Despite this belligerent spirit, the Vox strategists assume that it is not convenient for them to go toe-to-toe with the PP.

Ayuso is in a sweet moment.

It is fashionable politics on the right.

He is looking for an absolute majority that some surveys are already beginning to point to.

And, faced with the danger that the candidate calls the vote useful to the detriment of Vox, this party, precisely, focuses on reinforcing the utilitarian nature of voting for him: his speech is that only Vox guarantees that the PP does not fall into the hands of of the PSOE, and to keep promises full of ideology, such as repealing the trans-regional law, or protecting the Cuelgamuros Valley.

Thus, although the general approach of the extreme right is to demand that the PP be included in all the autonomous governments in which it has the key to governability, in Madrid Monasterio it walks with lead feet.

"I am not going to do like others who sell the bear skin before hunting it," Monasterio said on Tuesday.

"What we are gaining the trust of the people of Madrid neighborhood by neighborhood, we have a very clear program, that if they give us enough strength we can carry it out," he continued.

"The strength we have depends on the people of Madrid," he stressed.

“And we, in a negotiation, know that we will have to give up on things, just as the other party will have to give up.

What is clear is that if someone wants Vox votes, he will have to respect Vox voters.

All we ask is respect.

I respect.

And nothing more".

A not-so-veiled allusion to the constant clashes with Ayuso since the PP won the 2021 elections, and which now mark the electoral battle on the Madrid right.

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