The well being protest that doesn’t cease: the left capitalizes on Ayuso’s weak flank


The issues in public well being the principle stumbling block for Ayuso to achieve absolutely the majority within the Community of Madrid on 28M A survey commissioned by the Community reveals that 43.7% of Madrid residents place well being as the principle drawback and leaves Ayuso to 3 seats within the absoluteThe ‘white tide’ takes to the streets once more this Sunday to protest the general public well being scenario in Madrid whereas Ayuso insists that there’s a “political strike”

This Sunday the folks of Madrid will as soon as once more take to the streets in protection of public well being. Protests and strikes by docs in Primary Care that haven’t ceased for greater than three months and which have grow to be the Achilles heel of Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

According to the ‘hidden’ survey commissioned by the Community itself, carried out a month and a half in the past, 43.7% of Madrid residents place well being as the principle long-term drawback within the area. Almost half say it impacts them personally. This is particularly so amongst leftist voters. (See right here the survey of the Community of Madrid ready by GAD3).

The regional CIS revealed on the finish of December insisted on the identical facet. Madrid residents suspended well being care with 4.4%. Only the autonomous metropolis of Ceuta scored worse than the Community of Madrid.

Autonomous CISCIS

The left-wing events have identified the best way to learn that discontent and, lower than 4 months earlier than the elections, they’ve made public well being the middle of their technique to have a possibility to win on the polls on May 28 towards Díaz Ayuso. They additionally deal with polls that replicate that well being is starting to be perceived as one of many primary considerations and so they have launched to warmth the streets and fatten the ‘white tide’.

This week the spokesperson for Más Madrid, Mónica García, turned the regional elections right into a plebiscite and referred to as for a alternative between the well being poll and that of Ayuso. The socialist Juan Lobato has already offered his ‘Health Rescue Plan’. United We Can has turned to the demonstration this Sunday and even its normal secretary Ione Belarra has recorded a video in entrance of her pediatrician’s workplace to denounce the dearth of docs.

Ayuso to 3 seats of absolutely the majority

It shouldn’t be sufficient for the Madrid president simply to win the regional elections on May 28. She wants an absolute majority in order to not depend upon Vox, which has already knocked down her budgets for this yr and oversees her complete legislative agenda. She additionally wants to brush the polls if she needs to proceed fueling her aspirations in nationwide politics. The ‘Caliph’ of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, can boast of getting achieved an absolute majority, Alberto Núñez Feijóo collected 4 in Galicia, however she has none. Her political aspirations have came across the arduous rock of healthcare.

The well being factor I’d have managed it in another way

The survey commissioned by the Community of Madrid leaves Isabel Díaz Ayuso with three deputies of absolutely the majority. A member of the nationwide management of the PP admits to NIUS that they deal with inside surveys that time in the identical route. That Ayuso would keep one or two seats away from the long-awaited absolute and that it’s healthcare that’s weighing down her figures. “I’d have managed the well being factor differently,” acknowledges that very same supply.

The remainder of the PP barons in command within the sq. additionally don’t like the best way by which the Madrid chief expenses towards the docs and in personal they categorical their concern a couple of potential “contagion impact” of their territories. Only final month 5 autonomous communities registered indefinite strikes and in one other three days of unemployment had been referred to as associated to the stress of care and the dearth of well being professionals in Primary Care.

“The well being subject may be very near us. My adviser at all times tells me that it’s not handy to mess with the docs,” identified a very long time in the past a kind of territorial leaders who shouldn’t be satisfied by the technique of going to Ayuso’s conflict. Many confess that his position mannequin is that of Juanma Moreno who has settled the docs’ strike in Andalusia by lowering every day appointments.

Ayuso guarantees glasses for kids and oral well being for the aged

In Sol, all alarms have been set off in view of the info supplied by the surveys and so they have launched to attempt to plug the leak that has been opened to them with well being.

Only this week Ayuso has promised glasses for kids underneath 14 years of age, oral well being for these over 80 years of age and medical check-ups in instructional facilities. He has introduced the launch of the “first public residential middle on the planet” devoted solely to sufferers with ALS and the creation this yr of 1,600 new free specialised care locations for folks with disabilities. He has additionally dedicated an funding of 90 million euros for well being, schooling and public companies for Alcalá de Henares, the third metropolis of the Community and which is within the palms of the PSOE.

Ayuso meets with the president of the Madrid College of PhysiciansCAM

This whereas he was assembly with the president of the Madrid College of Physicians to thank him for not supporting the strike referred to as in Primary Care and the demonstration this Sunday.

The different leg of the technique deployed by Sol is to cost towards the protesters and hanging docs, figuring out them solely with the left and the unions. “They are hijacking public companies and privatizing them for his or her political pursuits. You need to burst the system and blame me,” the chief of Más Madrid, Mónica García, snapped this Thursday. Ayuso denounced “union work” inside medical consultations and lashed out on the conveners of the demonstration this Sunday.

Never has a lot cash been allotted to public well being in Madrid. We announce:

-A plan and a residence for ELA.

-Glasses for kids and oral well being for kids, the aged and other people with out sources.

With knowledge and earlier than the politicking. pic.twitter.com/zGocLMvWlX

— Isabel Díaz Ayuso (@IdiazAyuso) February 9, 2023

“Watch out for the well being stage of the conveners of Sunday’s demonstration: Sierra Norte 15-M Assembly, Marea Verde Assembly, left-wing unionists, 8-M, Student Union, who participated in my escrache, and the Railway Union: with the that’s falling with the trains and they’re signing up for my demonstration”, he ironized. If all this fails him, there’s at all times the wild card of Pedro Sánchez, whom Isabel Díaz Ayuso accuses of all of the ills of the Community of Madrid.