Spain is going through a new diplomatic crisis with a country in Latin America and in the Community of Madrid, they once again criticize the weak response of the Government of Pedro Sánchez in defense of the monarchy. The regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, accused the Mexican president on Thursday of copying "the same tactics of the Spanish extremists" to "attack" Felipe VI: "They call it historical memory and it is nothing but manipulation," she said, because the Spanish and Mexican peoples are "brothers."
The popular party leader was referring to the snub by the new Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who did not invite Felipe VI to her inauguration, scheduled for October 1. Consequently, the Government has chosen not to send any diplomatic representative to the ceremony in rejection of this "unacceptable and inexplicable decision" against the Spanish people.
But within the Community of Madrid, as also expressed on Thursday by the opposition leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, they believe that the Government's response has been lukewarm and that Sánchez should have publicly defended the king. "I reiterate our commitment to the monarchy and to the king of all, Felipe IV, in the face of the intentions of the heir of [Andrés Manuel López] Obrador to attack Spain through its king," Ayuso stated in defense of the monarch. "Now, is the blame for the situation of one country or another really from centuries ago?" she wondered.
This is how the popular leader expressed herself on Thursday from Pamplona, where she met with businessmen and the leader of the Navarre PP, Javier García. There, Ayuso accused the new Mexican president of, like the "ultras" and "populists" in Spain, trying to wear down the monarchy with a manipulation disguised as "historical memory."
"All united by their animosity and hatred towards everything Spanish. To go against. To divide the population," emphasized the regional president, who once again sees the shadow of former President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in the government's low-profile responses to crises with Latin America. First with Venezuela and the controversial arrival in Spain of the opposition leader, Edmundo González, and now with Mexico's new offenses against the king.
"We knew about Zapatero's interests in tension, the surrender to Bolivarian dictatorships, and the pacts with the most extremists to stay in power. What is evident is that the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, is a prisoner of Zapatero and is allowing Spain's image to sink in the world with his complicity with the dictatorship," Ayuso expressed.
The Madrid president, in fact, related the "institutional deterioration" suffered by Venezuela or Mexico to what has been seen precisely in Navarre in recent times: "Harming businesses, preventing free press, expelling the Civil Guard, surrendering to thugs and mafiosos, ending dissent, accusing anyone who opposes of being a fascist, criminalizing judges, and normalizing crime."