"Whoever does not respect the rules loses all reason", warned Pedro Sánchez after the veto of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who prevented the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, from accessing the authority's rostrum during the celebration of Dos de Mayo.
Far from shying away from the confrontation with the Madrid leader of the Popular Party, at the gates of the municipal and regional elections on May 28, Sánchez has endorsed Bolaños' position in this controversy and has questioned Ayuso's attitude, without citing it, to questions from the press during his appearance at the Moncloa with the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro. “There is something that we cannot forget”, highlighted the Chief Executive. “These are some minimum rules for coexistence, and it is that in a democracy the rules and public institutions must be respected, regardless of which political color governs one or another institution, regardless of which territory we are referring to, be it Madrid or Catalonia, or the Government of Spain”, Sánchez pointed out.
"The relevant thing is always to respect the rules, because if the rules are not respected, whoever does not respect them loses all reason", Sánchez has settled in reference to Ayuso.
In Moncloa they warn Ayuso that, instead of always confronting the central government, he should worry about the management of public policies in Madrid, given the problems that stand out in health, education and public housing. In this sense, Sánchez took advantage of his first intervention before Petro to highlight the Government's management by celebrating the "historical data" of employment in Spain that the Ministries of Labor and Social Security have reported today, with 240,000 new jobs in the first four months of the year, exceeding the "unpublished figure" of 20.6 million affiliated to Social Security, and 73,890 fewer unemployed in April.
“We are happy, not because it is a success for the Government of Spain, but because it is a success for Spanish society as a whole”, Sánchez celebrated. "These data demonstrate the strength of Spain and the goodness of the reforms and economic policies that we are undertaking, despite the pandemic and the war in Ukraine," he assured.
