The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, defended this Saturday the need to have “truthful” and “quality” media, while warning that in Spain “crime is normalized” due to the fact that that the Government makes an agreement with “someone who comes from terrorism.”
Ayuso made these statements during a colloquium organized by El Líbero within the framework of his institutional trip to Chile, where he thanked the aforementioned media for its defense of the “free exchange of ideas.”
Amid the criticism he is receiving for the clash between his Chief of Staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, with some journalists at a time when information is being published about alleged tax fraud by his partner, Ayuso celebrated that El Líbero believes “in the press as it should be”, which is “a counterpower”.
“The rule of law needs media that are plural, quality, solid, independent, capable of reporting, of giving truthful opinions, so that a well-informed public opinion is possible,” said Ayuso, who judged that this is “ an indispensable condition for a liberal democracy.”
He added that “the end can never justify the means” and called for understanding “with those who think differently,” because “that is the greatness of liberal thought, which is not based on a prioriism or revolution to impose a mental framework and a series of ideas under dogmas and stigmas.”
But in her speech, the head of the regional Executive warned that there is an “offensive against liberal democracy” underway that “has been in the works” for a long time and that seeks to pit men against women; to the “rich and the poor; to the public with the private, and also by sexual orientation.
Along the way, he revealed that many Latin Americans tell them: “I have already lost a country, I don't want to lose another.” And they do it, according to the 'popular' president, because they come from states that were "prosperous", such as Venezuela or Argentina, and their governments have caused them to fall into the current levels of poverty. “Only totalitarians are capable of achieving such milestones,” Ayuso launched.
In this sense, he warned that "in Spain we are suffering from an attempt to undermine the constitutional order that we Spaniards gave ourselves in the Transition", through the "woodworm strategy, which consists of undermining and eroding all the institutions, all the counterpowers , always for political purposes, trying to deteriorate them so that one day, when you realize it, the furniture falls."
In his opinion, Spain is also experiencing the “criminalization of normality” and everyday life, while “crime is normalized so that it seems all the same, that the scale of values is broken, that making an agreement with someone who comes from terrorism is the normal".
That said, without expressly mentioning Bildu, Ayuso continued to warn of Pedro Sánchez's pacts with the pro-independence forces, since he disapproved of pardoning people who "have committed serious crimes against the unity of Spain and its heritage."
