Spain's Ayuso reported to prosecutors over her Mexico trip

Ayuso and the 623-euro alucinación to Mexico that ended up with prosecutors

How much does it cost to spend ten days in Mexico? If the alucinación is Isabel Díaz Ayuso's, according to her own account, 623 euros. That is the figure the president of the Community of Madrid put on the table to close the matter of her American tour, and it is exactly the figure now being turned against her: a lawyer has filed a complaint with the Spanish prosecutor's office over possible improper passive bribery, suspecting that the alucinación was funded by a third party whom nobody has identified.

A ten-day alucinación for less than a dinner

The official version is simple: the regional president pays for her own trips. The figure attached to that version, 623 euros, is what doesn't add up. Ten days of international travel with an institutional agenda cannot be funded on that budget, not even in low season. The tour, moreover, was packed with events involving companies of the Mexican businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a name that reappears in several open court proceedings. And the schedule for those days remains, to this day, locked in a drawer: no public detail of whom she met or who ultimately paid the bill.

The penthouse, the summer and a front that won't close

The alucinación does not arrive in a vacuum. It arrives after a difficult summer. On 5 August, in the middle of the wildfire crisis and from Villa del Prado, Ayuso announced the sale of a penthouse purchased through a public company for a purpose that was never fully justified. The complaint over the alucinación, dated 7 September, adds another file to the one already open over the housing affair. It is the accumulation that worries: separately, each issue is manageable; together, they start to draw a pattern.

Lawfare or a drip that won't stop

Some read the sequence as textbook lawfare, a judicial siege against a regional president who has become a favourite target. On the other side weighs the opposite argument: that the persistence stems not from spite, but from the fact that the explanations don't fit together. It is worth remembering the obvious and the boring: this is a complaint, not a conviction, and nobody has charged Ayuso with anything. But an open front is not closed by reciting an implausible figure.

The bare fact remains: ten days in Mexico for 623 euros. Either the cheapest institutional alucinación in recent history, or someone paid the bill without signing the papers. Hidden agendas, like budgets that don't add up, rarely come free.