Neither with Sánchez nor with the Pope nor with married: Diaz Ayuso diplomacy

Isabel Díaz Ayuso con Isabel La Católica. La foto, tomada en Washington, es algo más que un retrato de la presidenta de Madrid con la estatua de la reina. Hecha a las puertas de la Organización de Estados Americanos, donde se entrevista con su secretario general, Luis Almagro, resume que el viaje por EE UU de la líder popular tensiona algunas convenciones políticas y diplomáticas. Díaz Ayuso, una presidenta autonómica, se reúne con representantes de organismos internacionales. Choca en la distancia con el presidente español, Pedro Sánchez. Critica al de México. Y afea al papa Francisco sus disculpas por la conquista americana. Para cuando llega el jueves, y solo un puñado de congresistas va a la reunión con la que acaba la gira, ya se sabe por qué Díaz Ayuso ha mantenido un viaje coincidente con la convención del PP de Pablo Casado. De polémica en polémica, encuentra un gran escaparate.

"Without knowing all the details of the trip, it can be deduced that some of his statements clearly overflow the margins of action for which the law enables it, in addition to incurring extravagances that touch the grotesque," says Mariola Urrea, a professor of International Public Lawof the University of La Rioja, which recalls the limits established in the Law of Action and Foreign Service for the International Activity of the Autonomous Communities.And she continues: "something, on the other hand, consistent with the form of political action that [Díaz Ayuso] experiences also in the internal field, so it should not cause any strangeness."

Joan David Janer, Professor of Public International Law at the University of the Balearic Islands, recalls: “Article 3 of the Law speaks of the necessary loyalty between administrations on foreign action issues, and article 11 refers to the communities have tosubmit to the planning instruments designed by the State in its external action. ”"It does not seem very timely and that what has been said in relation to the Pope makes sense on a trip in the US," he continues."But the criticism that has been made to the Pope is equally part of free political criticthe political strategy of confrontation PP-PSOE ”.

The possible conflict, in any case, does not go unnoticed for the president, whose team informed the Foreign Ministry before starting it.After meeting with the representatives of the Inter -American Development Bank, Díaz Ayuso raises a collaboration project to promote, emphasizes, "always with respect to the Government of Spain, which is the one who has the direct competences in the relationship with the bank."Nobody says anything why, then, Díaz Ayuso has come to the appointment.

There are also meetings with investment funds.Or with the editorial team of The Wall Street Journal.Or with the Hispanic Caucus in the Capitol, where only 5 of the 38 planned representatives are presented, and one, the Californian congressman of Mexican origin, Raúl Ruiz, expresses his disagreement with some of the comments on the natives made by the Madrid president duringthe tour.In all these appointments, a total of 13, Díaz Ayuso sells his project for Madrid and from all of them comes out with good words and without specifying new investments for the region.

How much does the media and propaganda tour trip to reinforce the image of Díaz Ayuso as a fashion policy on the right?And how much of trying to make lobby to attract investments, companies and businesses for Madrid?

The presidential entourage gives clues to answer those questions.Even the United States does not move the Minister of Economy, Javier Fernández Lasquetty.Nor the director of the Spanish office, Toni Cantó, in charge of looking for business opportunities through the language.If the general media director of the Community, the president's press manager, or the powerful chief of her cabinet, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, travel.

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Consequently, the entire image of the trip is taken care of.Can.Leadership.Independence.Those are the concepts that try to convey the photographs and videos distributed by the presidency team.Telemadrid, that the PP and Vox control thanks to a legal change approved in the Assembly, gives extensive coverage to the Diaz Ayuso by the US, which includes an interview with a nothing casual background: the White House.From his appointment with representatives of the Hispanic Society in New York, where he attacks indigenism and warns against black legend, as if he had read empioophobia, there is a photograph with a colossal series of sorollas behind him.And there are the images of her that portray her crossing the streets of New York as if she were a sex character in New York.She always, she pursued by the microphones and recorders of the Spanish media.

"The only thing that has changed with respect to the past of the trips of other regional presidents is media attention," says an international relations expert who asks not to be identified.“That media attention is basically Spanish, so it is normal that there he continues to do domestic politics, because it is about what the means that follow it ask, so he is doubtfully doing international politics, or diplomacy, and breaking some code of these", Add.And he emphasizes: "I would not be scandalized that he will make domestic politics on his trips, since he has never tried to do anything else, and his search for investments, which other regional presidents do, have turned the media into domestic politics."

There is a precedent in Díaz Ayuso's commitment to use international issues to do national politics.In January 2020, the president of Madrid saw how Sanchez did not receive Juan Guaidó, the interim president of Venezuela in La Moncloa.She immediately organized an act of red carpet and mass bath at the Real Casa de Coros Madrid, and gave her a mansion of the Isabel II channel to spend the night.It was the confirmation that the PP intended to use Madrid, where the community and the capital govern, as the ram of its opposition the PSOE and Podemos government.

More than a year and a half later, Díaz Ayuso replicates that strategy in the United States.There, for example, he sees Carlos Vecchio, Guaidó's representative in Washington, who is presented as Venezuelan ambassador to the country.

"Being in political draft meetings is very important, because they want to understand what the meaning of our administration is," defends the president of Madrid after gathering in Washington with the Think Tank Global Americans, who is the one who lends him that balcony overlookingThe White House for an interview.“This impulse was needed.Every time I have it clearer.It will be a revulsive, ”she adds."The purpose of this trip has been to publicize the Community of Madrid as a place to invest, as well as continue promoting Spanish culture and Hispanicity," she summarizes in her farewell.And she diagnoses: "Taxes and excess bureaucracy are a ballast for investment for Spain, openly harms us, as well as the management of visa for the investor."

A few hours later, Díaz Ayuso flies to Spain to be this Saturday at the National Convention of the PP.There they expect married, the conflict open by his intention to preside over the PP of Madrid, and the restlessness of a sector of the party that fears that he is taking positions for an eventual assault on national leadership.She denies it.Her trip through the United States, in any case, reinforces her image as the main formation of formation: from New York to Washington, Díaz Ayuso has overshadowed the itinerant convention of the PP.

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