Vox is facing the final stretch of 2022 very differently from how it began. If in February they were promised very happy for their entry into a regional government -Castilla y León- for the first time in its history and opened to form a coalition with the PP in the Community of Madrid, now it is trying to shed its skin so that the poor electoral results in Andalusia -where he aspired to a vice-presidency and now sails into irrelevance- will not be transferred in May to the country as a whole. Although the first attempt, carried out in the capital, has ended up being a resounding failure. To the point that it is the popular who have now chosen to distance themselves from the ultra-nationalists after a movement that they describe as a "low blow."
The urgency to set its own profile in the face of the negotiation of regional budgets, which the PP usually draws with the support of Vox, led its spokesperson in the Assembly last week to tighten the rope so that Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the conservative voters , do not take these supports for granted.
Vox understood that it was time to do so after some controversial words from the spokesman and vice president of the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ossorio, for which he pointed out that the relatives of those who died in regional nursing homes during the pandemic "have already overcome it". Without calibrating all the derivatives, Monasterio decided to propose the creation of a study commission on residences.
The ordago was clear. Either there were concessions to the demands of Vox to stop being the "doormat of the PP", as the opposition calls them, or the health performance of the Executive of the president of the Community would be investigated.
But Monasterio made a mistake in his calculations, and what in his head was nothing more than a tough negotiation turned out to be, in reality, a lifesaver for the left. Because taking the main black point of Ayuso's management to commission – since the complaints of prevarication in the covid contracts in which his brother participated have not prospered in the courts – is much more than what Más Madrid, PSOE and United We can they can get given their parliamentary weakness.
Ayuso saw it so clearly that he didn't even wait to discuss it behind closed doors with Monasterio. And he listed the consequences that he has "giving wings to the left." He did it last Thursday and he did it again yesterday. “I am struck by the fact that it is the best ally of the left”, he initially disfigured him, then immediately pointed out his weakness: “Vox has no power or political strength to stop the subsidized and the related platforms that can go to that commission."
The slam in the nose has been greater without light or stenographers. When from the PP it has slipped that Ayuso can perfectly "extend the budgets" and blame Vox for it, presenting it as a right that "is not trustworthy and does not hesitate to agree with the left when it has the opportunity." Exactly the same thing that Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla did in his last year in office and that, in the end, served him to reap an absolute majority that has swept Santiago Abascal's men out of the equation.
Monastery has not hesitated to resign from the aforementioned commission. But, along the way, he has exposed his needs and fears in the face of the regional ones.
