“The meeting gives an image of a country in which neither the victims nor the judges are respected,” criticizes the Madrid president
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, has warned that the recent photo between the acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with members of Bildu in the framework of the negotiations for the investiture is “very damaging” to the international image of the Executive and to “all Spaniards.”
Within the framework of his visit to the Columbia Business School, where Spaniards who study at the main American universities have gathered, Díaz Ayuso has assured that he has been asked about that photo and about “how it is possible” to see people “who have represented to ETA with the help of the President of the Government”.
“That draws attention to the investment, to the company, to the people who see us from outside, it gives us the image of a country that cannot be trusted,” said the president of the capital, who considers that Sánchez’s negotiations with the Basque party for a future investiture means not respecting the victims of the terrorist group nor “the rule of law or the judges.”
Accuses Podemos of siding with the violent
But he has not only referred to the investiture negotiations, but Díaz Ayuso has also had time to assess the international conflict between Israel and Palestine.
More specifically, about the different positions regarding the conflict maintained in the coalition Government, since the acting Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has urged the socialist part of the Executive to denounce Israel in the International Criminal Court for crimes of war. For his part, Pedro Sánchez has supported Israel’s right to defend itself, but within International Law.
In line with this panorama, Díaz Ayuso has insisted that the recent attack by Hamas to Israel it was a “genocide”, that the Palestinian population “matters like everyone else” and has accused Podemos, led by Belarra, of taking “the side of violence whenever they have the opportunity.”
“That no one in Podemos can even condemn him or that they always do it with a but, it seems to me that is the constant struggle that Israel faces with the story,” added the president.
In this sense, he stressed that Hamas’ actions are part of a “savage attack” which is “the first thing that must be condemned” and then “recognize the legitimate right that the State of Israel has to defend itself as any nation in the world would do in the same circumstance.”
Ayuso explained that something different is the Palestinian population, which in his opinion “matters like everyone else, because all lives are worth the same.”
“What needs to be done is to make these corridors and all the human help that is necessary available to the Palestinian population, but not continue to indulge in the usual propaganda of the terrorists, which is what Podemos does completely without fissures,” he said. Ayuso said to assert that the purple formation “whenever it has the opportunity it sides with violence.”
“He always does it, in all its forms, with kale borroka, with which he attacks ATMs, beats up police officers, makes escraches, promotes burning streets, as we have always seen in Barcelona or other places,” he concluded.