Madrid is claimed as "the necessary Spain, that of all"

USPA NEWS - The president of the regional government of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, vindicated Madrid on Monday as "the necessary Spain, that of all," the one that citizens yearn for above "exclusions, divisions and confrontations." At the regional holiday, Díaz Ayuso explained that the Madrid that she claims “is one of unity, the common commitment to move forward, of shared complicity; the one that does not impose, but rather convinces and agrees,” she stated at the Royal Post Office, headquarters of the regional government, during her speech to close the ceremony for the delivery of medals and decorations at the May 2 holiday in Madrid.

This necessary Spain, explained the regional president, “is the one that does not drown in identities because its soul is welcoming, understanding, plural, open and universal.” Isabel Díaz Ayuso added that “from the ego and fears of the ruler who believes he possesses an indisputable and seamless truth, the past teaches us that autocracy and terror are born.” For Díaz Ayuso, it is the necessary Spain "in the face of the totalitarian ideologies that confront each other, it is the open reality of each other" and that denies the ideological confrontation in Education, in the family, between the sexes, the countryside and the cities or our intimacy, which does not manufacture social classes.”

"The necessary Spain is the one that places the ruler at ground level and commits him to all Spaniards," said the president of the regional government of Madrid, adding that it is, in short, "the one with the new look, the Spain of freedom, of people, of the truth, of effective management,” of all and for all, “that banishes interventionism, imposition and lies.”

Díaz Ayuso warned that "the real failure comes when you give in to terror, lies, totalitarianism or injustice, until confrontation or the breakdown of coexistence become inevitable." Thus, she said, “the two Spains were born, and the discord: refusing to live with those who think differently, in not being able to bear those who think differently. But the hope of the so-called Third Spain is also born, which thinks that the only true enemy is the confrontation between compatriots,” she pointed out.

The Madrid president pointed out that Madrid is "the great project for the future, with a clear commitment: to overcome diseases of the past," assuring that whoever wants to know what tolerance, plurality or measure "the solidarity that is practiced and not only the one that it is preached, look at Madrid.” Madrid, she added, “is made of all its accents and biographies. We put aside the social engineering and interventionism that turns the State into an end and not a means,” she maintained.

Do not waste energy in sterile battles

Díaz Ayuso stressed that the region will continue to be "the necessary and recognizable Spain, loyal and firm in its commitment to families, workers, businessmen and artists," and that it will not "waste time or energy in sterile battles, in absurd confrontations, in failed initiatives, in useless spending that wastes the efforts of citizens.”

“We want to move forward by widening the path for everyone who wants to walk it with a broad and enthusiastic gaze,” said the president, while indicating that “in the face of those who raise borders between Spaniards, in the face of those who do not point out who is different, Madrid will always be there.” The president concluded by pointing out that celebrating this May 2 "with this new look, Spanish and encompassing our entire history, is a good antidote to deactivate the maneuvers of professional haters in Spain." And she concluded her speech stating that “even more so now that we celebrate it with new hope, after these two terrible years. We are here, as always. We have recovered the pleasure of simplicity, the blessing of normalcy," she said, adding that "no matter how many doors close on us, there will always be one that will not: Puerta del Sol. Madrid respects itself and that respects everyone,” she said.

Previously, the president of the regional government of Madrid presided over the traditional floral offering to the Heroes of May 2, 1808 in the Florida cemetery in the Spanish capital. Díaz Ayuso participated in the tribute together with the president of the regional Parliament of Madrid, Eugenia Carballedo; the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida; the Chief of the General Air Command, Juan Ángel Treceño García; and part of the Governing Council.

During the act, Díaz Ayuso lit the votive flame in honor of the Heroes of Dos de Mayo before the War Band and a squad of spenders from the 71st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment. He also went to the chapel, where he signed the Book of Honor remembering the people of Madrid, who "once again have been an example to the world for their struggle for the freedom of all of Spain." And he wrote: “To his anonymous heroes, to his people, the people of Madrid.” The Madrid president also went down to the crypt where the tombstone with the names of those buried in the cemetery is located. Finally, she deposited a laurel crown before the tombstone of the Heroes of Dos de Mayo with the Prayer Call.