“Madrid is either free or it is not Madrid, we will lower taxes even if Sánchez does battle”

Isabel Díaz Ayuso does not give the arm to twist. In the interview granted to OKDIARIO, she is aware that Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias They want to impose a social communist agenda in Madrid and throughout Spain. But the regional president is willing to “apply the tax cuts.” Because “neither Donations nor Successions are taxes that the State can recover to impose them, while they accuse us of tax dumping and while they give other autonomous communities the privilege of financing themselves in another way.”

Question.- Let me ask you about the economic measures that are coming out of the central government. Madrid is the mattress and the great Spanish economic engine, it is the main axis of tax collection, of attracting foreign companies. Do you share the policy that is being launched by the Government that, far from lowering taxes and social contributions to try to help maintain employment, is doing the opposite?

Answer.- Obviously not. If it depends on us in Madrid, taxes will not be raised and we will lower them as soon as possible. And in fact we have presented a plan to reactivate the community where we do the opposite: we eliminate bureaucratic obstacles, we agree on the Administration’s deadlines, we even go so far as to eliminate procedures if it is proven that they are already out of date.

We are going to make the soil more flexible so that it can be converted. A land that, for example, is industrial and has already been surrounded by homes because the urban nucleus has grown, which can be converted, for example, into commercial for the neighbors. We are going to make an even freer and lighter community to accompany those who, with their patrimony and patrimony and their children, create jobs, move the economy, which are all the middle classes, the autonomous merchants, the rest of the Entrepreneurs … The great entrepreneurs who, by the way, are demonized people and create a domino effect. If the big businessmen leave, the jobs will cascade and, therefore, everything could get worse.

We want everyone to come as always to undertake. We have also always had a very clear discourse on public-private collaboration. And what we cannot do is not only intimidate them, mistreat them, but also do everything with a lot of inconcretion. In the end, it is not known when ERTEs are charged, the deadlines for things are not known and then there are ministers who even launch messages against trade and tourism, which is the latest, which are fundamental pillars of our economy.

So we are going in the completely opposite direction to the Government in that sense. And what I ask is that Madrid’s autonomy remain the same. Neither Donations nor Successions are taxes that the State can recover to impose while they accuse us of fiscal dumping and while other autonomous communities are given the privilege of financing themselves in another way, which is also happening.

Q.- I wanted to ask you that, is the Government of Spain going to let you develop this whole plan? Because all the messages that come from the Ministry of Finance and from President Sánchez himself speak of that, the same Government that agrees a bilateral table in Catalonia with separatist parties, however, has a tremendous desire to shorten the capacity of the Madrid Community to lower taxes. Is Sánchez going to allow it?

R.- Of course, it will be our workhorse. In that sense I cannot be clearer because Madrid is either free or it is not Madrid, the economy is either free or it is not economy. To Madrid, at the moment when a different tax system was imposed on us, it would expel private initiative, companies, and entrepreneurship. Then, we would go further to ruin and I do not know how they think that public services can be paid.

I am a strong defender of health and public education, of the basic services that are already offered by the administrations, but only with private capital and only with that public-private collaboration is it possible that everything works.

Now, for example, we have a controversy with the Hospital Niño Jesús. In a moment of bankruptcy like the one we have, we can thus construct a seven-storey building that will allow us to have a car park, which is now a problem, and an outpatient outpatient service, in the middle of the city of Madrid, in one of the districts whose land is more expensive. How? If it is not with public-private collaboration, you cannot do so many things. They are mantras. They are dogmas that always weigh down the same way, but each time, at least in Madrid, they work worse.

The people of Madrid know, and the citizens who come to Madrid to work as well, what things cost and what they ask is that they be left alone and that they be helped. That we are not constantly directing and protecting citizens. That we let them work their way and we make things easier for them.

Q.- Let me ask you one last question because, when coming to the interview, I crossed a demonstration for the death of a person of color at the hands of a police officer in the United States. The protest is held in Madrid. It reaches from the United States Embassy to Colón, where the Community Presidency is. I say this with all the irony: we all know your ability to make legal changes in the United States … But in that concentration, I was struck by the fact that the police force was practically equivalent to what has been present in the casseroles of Núñez de Balboa. It is striking because this demonstration that I have crossed has traveled the center of the city and there was not the slightest distance between the people. I have had to pass between them, and it was impossible to cross practically without touching you, and we are supposed to have sanitary measures in which we are asked not to be close. To the delegate of the Government and the Government – who are the same who have criticized and who have even gone so far as to accuse the casseroles of incitement to hatred – is this demonstration not a problem?

R.- I plan to address the government delegate to ask him for extreme security measures in the demonstrations regarding distance and the protection of the participants in them. I have also been watching this concentration to which he refers for a while and, in fact, the safety distances were not kept. Many people did not wear face masks. At least you have to wear the masks.

We have come a long way, but if we are going to be now in the following phases with numerous demonstrations -usually in front of the Puerta del Sol, which is a place where, in addition to freedom, citizens of any kind come to claim what they consider to be just – To return to normality, which I believe will not be completely normal, but well, if we are going to go out on the streets again, it will have to be done safely and it is your competence. The competence of the Government delegate.

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