Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the darling of the Spanish PP, caught between legal problems and her boyfriend’s dark affairs

For days in the eye of the storm for alleged tax crimes of his partner, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, doesn’t give up: She responds to those who call for her resignation by saying that she is a victim of political persecution and accuses Pedro Sánchez’s government of using “Chavista” methods to harm her.

“I believe that all the tools and powers of the state are used against an individual to try to cause political damage to an opponent, which seems to me to be chavista and very serious,” she said Monday in defense of her boyfriend. her during a visit to a company that offers financing for the purchase of cars.

Díaz Ayuso, 45 years old, He is one of the most important figures of the Spanish Popular Party and the only one capable of overshadowing the leadership of the current president of the party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

She won the regional elections in May last year – a few weeks before a gossip magazine caught her kissing in Ibiza with Alberto González Amador, her current partner – and She was re-elected with an absolute majority.

However, the prosecutor’s investigations continue possible tax fraud and alleged falsification of documents who has been her boyfriend for almost three years – and with whom she lives in an expensive apartment – they smear the president of the region and put her in a corner.

A week ago, while Díaz Ayuso was defending him, the Spanish press announced that he was her boyfriend he had recognized two tax crimes and that he was willing to pay the amount owed in installments to avoid trial.

But the story of the President of the Region was different: “As far as I know, my partner is undergoing a wild tax audit which concerns 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and now 2022, to delay the almost 600 thousand euros that the Treasury owes you,” Díaz Ayuso said on Wednesday 13 March.

“It is false that he is the one who owes 350 thousand euros for fraud,” he said. Not only does he owe nothing, but the Treasury owes him something.”

The online newspaper eldiario.es he has been publishing for days, in succulent doses, details that would increasingly sink González Amador, who the Spanish press presented as a “health technician” but who seems to have accumulated his fortune based on the collection of commissions for hospital materials and which was used during the pandemic.

“We will crush you”

According to the online newspaper, González Amador attempted to sell vaccines to immunize against Covid to Côte d’Ivoire – the country ranks 170th out of 189 in the 2018 ranking of the World Bank’s Human Development Index. at a price five times higher than the market price. The operation would not have been carried out but González Amador would have presented a false invoice.

“The company Ayuso partners with turnover 3.7 million“Zero employees, a computer, a printer and a Porsche Panamera”, was another headline from eldiario.es.

One of its journalists, Esther Palomera, reported that she was intimidated by Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Angel Rodríguez.

“We will crush you, you will have to close. “Fuck you idiots”Rodríguez says to Palomera in a WhatsApp chat.

The president of Madrid supported her chief of staff: “Two people who have had a relationship of trust for more than 30 years are arguing on WhatsApp and I don’t understand why this thing happens,” she said.

From the PP they continue to support Díaz Ayuso and look the other way: “It is not up to me to evaluate private conversations that transcend and are made public to harm people,” the PP’s parliamentary spokesperson, Miguel Tellado, said on Tuesday. .

Data loss

The Bar Council of Madrid has announced that it will denounce the disclosure of data relating to the president’s partner.

From the Prosecutor’s Office, they assure “only essential information was communicated.”

“There was a very serious scandal regarding the leak of personal data as part of an individual’s defense strategy,” insisted Díaz Ayuso. “A tax audit, I don’t know what he’s doing, it’s all over the media.”

“I answer for the Community of Madrid It has absolutely nothing to do in this story,” Díaz Ayuso said Monday.

“It seems like an absolute scandal to me, taking into account what is happening in Spain,” he defended himself. “We have an amnesty law that is a deeply corrupt law.”

Díaz Ayuso thus quoted the recent amnesty law for the Catalan independence movement called Sánchez He made a deal with the separatists in exchange for their support for his re-election.

The law was approved by the Congress of Deputies last Thursday and passed to the Senate on Tuesday, where the PP majority will try to delay it for as long as possible.

Corruption conspiracy

The current PSOE-Sumar coalition government is also going through difficult days. To the wear and tear caused by the drafting of the amnesty for the Catalan independence movement, a corruption conspiracy in the purchase of masks In the most harrowing days of the pandemic, several important names emerge within the party.

President Pedro Sánchez, however, called for the resignation of the president of the Madrid region during last week’s government control session.

“I ask that Ms. Ayuso’s resignation be requested as president of the Community of Madrid,” Sánchez told the opposition leader, Núñez Feijóo.

“Let him have courage, let him be courageous, let him ask for Mrs. Ayuso’s resignation from the Community of Madrid even if it costs him his position, like Mr. Casado,” Sánchez reminded him.

In 2022, the president of the PP was Pablo Casado and he had to resign after reporting that the Autonomous Community of Madrid had awarded a contract, in the midst of the pandemic, to the company of a friend of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s brother.

“Núñez Feijóo does not ask Ayuso to resign out of fear. “Out of cowardice or complicity,” said PSOE spokeswoman Esther Peña. “From the Socialist Party we ask for the resignation of Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Resignation that must be immediate,” she insisted.

“I prick myself and I don’t bleed”

“The apparitions of recent days giving alleged explanations have been grotesque and an insult to the citizens. Ms Ayuso must explain whether she enjoys a house, a Maserati and other assets which are the result of tax fraud,” the PSOE spokesperson said.

The Madrid president had already given explanations about the apartment she shares with her partner: “It’s not a million dollar (department) apartment, it’s not mine.”It’s mortgaged, it’s legal“he said last Wednesday.

“I have been renting for almost 20 years,” added Díaz Ayuso. I accompany my partner who lives at home. He is an individual and can buy any house he wants. And I have the right to sleep in the bed I choose and that doesn’t mean I’m responsible for anything.”

Then he canceled his schedule of commitments for a couple of days and returned to the ring only this Monday, when during a visit to a private company he shot Pedro Sánchez: “If he wants to continue living, the government must stop making agreements on what is agreed, stop making fun of all of us Spaniards when it will no longer lead to referendum, self-determination and the destruction of Spain just to keep the president. “I understand the interest in diverting attention.”

“It’s just that I prick myself and don’t bleed.”“, the Madrid president summed up her experience in the attacks.

Before the Spaniards had details on the leaks about her boyfriend’s possible tax crimes, Isabel Díaz Ayuso was planning to travel to Argentina in the second half of April. But the tour has been put on hold for now.