“Spain is already a police state”

The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has assured that Spain “is already a police State” in which “civil rights and liberties are restricted.” Ayuso has made these statements on the same day in which new data has come to light about the investigation of her partner, Alberto González Amador, and just a few hours after the judge investigating the case has opened a separate piece for her connection with Chiron.

“In a police state, civil rights and liberties are restricted and the authorities have the capacity to monitor, repress and punish the population with little or no judicial supervision. Practices such as mass surveillance, censorship and repression of dissent are used to maintain justice,” Ayuso said this Wednesday during his speech at the 2024 Influyentes Awards. He also noted that the Ministry of the Interior “will handpick the police officers.” “to investigate judicialized cases.”

Ayuso has also made reference to her partner, Alberto González Amador, whom she has referred to as “a private citizen who has seen his statement cut up and conveniently published with ridicule, something that is completely illegal, for being the boyfriend of a political adversary.” . “This is a police state,” the Madrid president stressed. Also this Wednesday night, his Chief of Staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, made the same accusation in X.

This week, Cadena SER has revealed that Ayuso’s partner tried to deduct taxes for the purchase of a Rolex, paddle balls, as well as the repair of his Porsche through his company. The businessman attributed these personal expenses to his company during the two fiscal years for which he has been denounced and in which he committed a confessed tax fraud of 350,000 euros. He also included the costs of renting two cars during his vacation with Ayuso in 2021 and the Community of Madrid reserved the Barajas authorities room for those two trips.

After also knowing the new piece of the case to investigate González Amador’s relationship with Quirón, the leader of the PP of Madrid has stated that in Spain “the judiciary, the police, the large public institutions are taken over by politicians.” Ayuso has said that he trusts and has “always” believed in the police, but that this body “often” acts “outside the limits of the rule of law”, such as when “practices such as mass surveillance, censorship and repression of dissent to maintain social control.”

Ayuso: “Many of us have already warned”

“And this is happening in Spain on October 23, 2024. I understand that there are those who cannot or do not want to see it, and who do not do it, but many of us have already warned,” said the president. Ayuso has also stated that “the common characteristics of a police state include extreme surveillance, using technologies to surveil and monitor the activities of citizens, political repression, persecution and punishment of dissidents and critics of the Government.”

According to the head of the Madrid PP, in statements in which she has equated the practices with which she accuses the Government of those that “have devastated democracy in many Latin American countries.” And according to Ayuso, they have arrived in Europe “hand in hand with our president advised by the previous one, as we are seeing in the most difficult moments in Venezuela.”

For the Madrid leader, this situation “harms the company, investment and our image in the world.” “It is happening in Spain,” he said, before stating that our country “is experiencing the worst institutional moment in its democratic history.”