US EditionMadrid's Regional Leader Walks Out of Presidents' Conference when Catalan and Basque Spoken - Spain in English
- The 28th Regional Presidents Conference took place in Barcelona on Friday morning, gathering Spain’s autonomous region leaders amid rising political tensions.
- Heightened disputes between the PSOE-led national government and PP-controlled regions, including Madrid's Ayuso opposing regional languages, set the meeting’s tense background.
- Ayuso left the room during Catalonia’s Illa’s Catalan speech but returned when Galicia’s Rueda spoke in Galician and Spanish, reflecting linguistic and political clashes.
- Prime Minister Sánchez expressed excitement about hosting and faced PP calls for resignation, while Hazte Oír posted 'corrupt' Sánchez posters across 30 Barcelona bus shelters.
- The summit highlighted Spain’s regional diversity and conflicts, with ongoing investigations into Madrid’s nursing home deaths and calls for dialogue amid political polarization.
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Whenever the government is about to lose its old glow, Isabel Díaz Ayuso arrives and gives her a hand to recover them. This Friday it was at the Conference of Presidents, when the Madrid woman gave the note as she left the room while her counterparts Imanol Pradales and Salvador Illa spoke in Basque and Catalan, but not when their Galician co-religionary, Alfonso Rueda, did it in their language. And there are co-official languages that seem to d…
The president of the Community of Madrid has left after listening to Pradales
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has risen from the meeting at which the Conference of Presidents is held during the speaking shift of the Lehendakari Imanol Pradales, who has begun to speak in Basque, and has remained outside during the Catalan intervention of the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa. "The president has decided to leave the meeting when her counterpart has started his intervention in the Basqu…
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has defended having left the Conference of Presidents when the co-official languages were used. "They are being used to show a plurinational Spain that does not exist, Spain is a nation", she has argued to questions of the journalists once the day has ended. It has been the only one that has risen—and has subsequently returned—while other PP leaders have decided to remove the pinganill…
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, once again dominated the media spotlight this weekend after leaving the Conference of Presidents in protest at the use of co-official languages. Her departure from the room, just as Lehendakari Imanol Pradales began his speech in Basque, sparked a new political clash between the Madrid government and the central government, as well as with Basque nationalists. Read more]]>
Madrid's regional leader walks out of presidents' conference when Catalan and Basque spoken - Spain in English
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, King Felipe VI, and the presidents of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions gathered in Barcelona on Friday morning for the 28th Regional Presidents Conference. Even before the event commenced, however, political tensions were already high due to mounting disputes between the governing socialist (PSOE) party and the right-wing People’s Party (PP), the main opposition force in the Spanish Congress. Although the PSOE …
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