This helps explain the Madrid we have today according to El País, it “is the portrait of a region as rich as it is unequal, still unbalanced between north and south, and in which privatization continues to gain ground on public institutions.” Spain is a decentralized state, and its seventeen regional governments, or autonomous communities, enjoy control over areas such as health and education, as well as fiscal policies. The gig economy has left thousands of families in a precarious position and amid the mounting recession, things are not going to improve anytime soon. That was before a global pandemic brought Madrid to its knees. According to the latest INE statistics, in 2018, just under half of the region’s 6.6 million population - the equivalent of the entire population of the city of Madrid - struggled to reach the end of the month. Not everyone has benefitted from the boom. This has been a key reason for PP’s longevity. Since that point, Spain’s third-largest autonomous community (behind Andalusia and Catalonia) has become what it proudly calls the country’s “economic engine.” Its growth owes to a prosperous services sector, particularly in areas such as finance, real estate, and IT and telecommunications, as well as steady growth in the construction sector. The Partido Popular took control of the Madrid regional government on June 28, 1995, ending the twelve-year reign of the Socialist Party (PSOE). Yet a closer look at the bases of PP control - and the electorate it has created through its Thatcherite measures - offers rather less reason for optimism. Some observers have speculated that the PP’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis in the Community of Madrid may threaten its quarter-century dominance of the region’s politics. The PP’s policies, heavily weighted toward privatization, left Madrid’s public health care system ill-equipped to battle the most severe humanitarian crisis to hit the country since the 1936 Civil War.

This owed much to the disastrous record of the Partido Popular (PP), the conservative party which has been in power in the Madrid region for some twenty-five years. Today, the regional government faces the fallout from a nursing home scandal that saw at least six thousand sick elderly residents refused hospital treatment, abandoned, and left to die alone without care. An epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis, the Community of Madrid has been the single Spanish region hit hardest by the pandemic.

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