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The President and the Penthouse: How Madrid’s Government Spent €6.3m on a Temporary ‘Office’

Saga surrounding purchase for outspoken rightwing regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso refuses to go away The outspoken rightwing leader of the Madrid region is under growing pressure to explain why her government spent €6.3m (£5.4m) on a residential penthouse purportedly to serve as a temporary workspace while her offices were being renovated. Isabel Díaz Ayuso,…

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Lean Left

Isabel Díaz Ayuso's chief of staff responds to the president of the government after his interview in which he has assured that "he has wanted to buy an attic with the pasta of the people of Madrid"

·Madrid, Spain
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Lean Left

The executive leader claims that he has used “the money of the people of Madrid and has been caught; it is what it seems.”

·Barcelona, Spain
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Lean Right

Pedro Sánchez took advantage this Monday of his interview in the 'Cadena SER' to charge back against Isabel Díaz Ayuso and place at the center of the political debate the controversy over the purchase of Chamberí's attic . The chief executive has accused Ayuso of wanting to take on a "thickness with the pasta of the Madriders" and has demanded the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to explain "what he knew" about the operation. Sanchez has …

·Madrid, Spain
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Lean Right

The Premier of the Spanish region of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is coming under increasing pressure due to the purchase of a penthouse worth over 6 million euros. The outspoken right-wing leader and prominent member of the Spanish conservative opposition party Partido Popular (PP) risks losing her absolute majority as a result of the affair, to the radical right-wing party Vox.

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Right

The president of the regional government, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, tried to downplay the case with a... "bye bye," but the scandal persists.

·Marousi, Greece
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Lean Left

The president has led several controversies where she lives or rests. The last one fits the anti-Elite discourse of the ultra-month party of the elections.

·Madrid, Spain
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El Pais broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Sunday, August 30, 2026.
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