On Thursday, the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, considered that the Quiron Group, whose partner is an agent, is “the best healthcare group in Spain.” He also criticized the opposition for the fact that this health bloc should “bear the wrath” of the government “and all the poodles subject to it.” With these words, Ayuso responded to the socialist speaker of the Madrid Assembly, Mar Espinar, who had rebuked her minutes earlier, during the monitoring session of the Madrid executive, for having to “admit their lies in court.” He was referring to their statements in the trial taking place in the Supreme Court against the State Attorney General.
In a harsh new plenary session of the Assembly, Ayuso accused the left of being “a totalitarian project that does not respect the separation of powers, nor the power of the press” or “parliaments.” He made a direct reference to Espinar: “You will never be a candidate in your life and the person who writes Moncloa’s speeches will not be able to create state processes.” Regarding the references of both PSOE and Más Madrid to the Quirón group with which the president’s partner cooperates, Ayuso accused them of “insulting companies as in dictatorships, and disrespecting their workers.”
Previously, Espinar used his role to criticize the privatization of the health sector in the Madrid region. “How did you sleep today? Good, right?” Ayuso asked. “Residents of Madrid who had to wake up at dawn to go for a test in a private hospital, not so much, because in addition, if they refuse this test, you punish them with additional months of waiting,” recalls the socialist spokesman. “Ms. Ayuso does not allow public centers to open the afternoon shift due to lack of funding, but Ms. Ayuso sends Madrid residents at 5 a.m. for an MRI in a private hospital,” he stressed.
“It sounds crazy, but it’s not,” Espinar boasted. “It’s great because for every piece of evidence that the underfunded public health care system uses to force the people of Madrid to choose private health care, they are not free to choose. It’s blackmail so that their partner’s main client continues to make money,” he said, referring to Alberto González Amador, who specifically works as a commission agent for the Quirón group. “They don’t refer patients, they refer clients, Mr. Ayuso,” Espinar added. “And they treat the people of Madrid like they are fools.”
After a terse response from Ayuso asserting that Madrid had “the best health care” in Spain, Espinar continued his argument by talking about “the daily party with his private club in the attic” which, according to the socialist spokesman, “all the people of Madrid pay for.” He concluded: “Mrs. Ayuso, you have put society at the service of an individual who will sit in the dock for tax fraud. Reality is stubborn, especially when there are testimonies from real journalists, those who resort to their sources,” he concluded, in another reference to the Supreme Court ruling. He concluded: “The Chief of Staff and his partner have already had to admit to their lies in court. And you will have to do it too. They are greedy, Ms. Ayuso. They are never satisfied. They will destroy the public. They will destroy democracy because they want more and more.”
In addition to defending Quirón’s group as “the best” in Spain, Ayuso responded to Espinar with the following comment: “You have so much audacity that all you do is insult.” In his opinion, the left excludes “judges” and “prosecutors.” “They are the most authoritarian in the history of Spain in terms of democracy. So I repeat, she will not be a candidate and her president will not be a candidate. I think this is a very good thing because the people of Madrid do not approve of her madness,” he stressed.
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