As soon as he got off the train at Sants, the former Attorney General told us that he found it difficult to walk through some neighborhoods of the capital. Madrid is many Madrids, but the one gaining the most prominence, the one making the most noise, is the Madrid of p’alante made famous by the chief of staff of President Ayuso, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.
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Madrid is giving birth to characters like Vito Quiles, who achieves everything he sets out to do, in many cases with the connivance of the State security forces. What Don Vito might be behind Vito? To start with, having the complicity of the main opposition party, which let us not forget is still the PP, gives him an incomprehensible shelter coming from a party that intends to govern the country by returning it to the path of moderation and not of tension, as its leader keeps repeating.
Leader is perhaps the word that hurts Núñez Feijóo the most because week after week someone within his own party manages to overshadow him. That someone is usually Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who more than being the leader of the PP, is the head of the PA: Partido Ayusista. Ayusismo is a way of life. Freedom, beers, urban Formula 1 circuits, and showing that every day you can have a striking idea and outdo yourself the next day, and that it never costs you anything. A machine of headlines, of short phrases as if they were to be published on social media, doing the work for the media editors, who have the headline on a silver platter. She declaims those phrases at just the right tempo, looking where she has to look, with the appropriate cadence, whether in her constant press conferences or in one of her usual interviews, always in friendly media.
The president knows how to make news, whether in Parla or in Aguascalientes
Now she was on a tour in Mexico, as if she were the vocalist of Café Quijano, a trip she said yesterday she was canceling, according to the community, due to the boycott by the Mexican government, although the opposition accused her of taking paid vacations. When she travels, Ayuso does not go alone. Besides the entourage, she is always accompanied by controversy and provocation, which inevitably lead to tension. And that was a trip to strengthen economic and cultural ties with Mexico. You have to be in the mood for a party when you arrive in Mexico and the first thing you do is claim the conqueror Hernán Cortés. It’s like going tomorrow to Camp Nou wearing Figo’s jersey.
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Ayuso’s trip was not a diplomatic one. It was a performance, a show, with much more impact than a trip really dedicated to strengthening ties between peoples. Because those ties are much more boring than praising Hernán Cortés. Or demanding the j and not the x when we write México.
Ayuso knows how to make news, whether in Parla or in Aguascalientes. I am convinced that her circle is happy with all this impact. Surely her greatest achievement has been that the nation’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has referred to the regional president in several statements. In one of them, she highlighted the historical ignorance from which Ayuso speaks. What does it matter if they call you ignorant, if what you have achieved is to anger someone like Sheinbaum, who showed a very good relationship with Pedro Sánchez a few weeks ago in Barcelona. Anyone who becomes friends with Sánchez automatically becomes his enemy.
I don’t know if the Madrid president has heard about the Madrid locker room. Surely yes because Madrid continues to have more impact than anything else in Spain. So much so that we hardly notice that the only Spanish men’s football team to reach a European final is Rayo Vallecano. President, reserve May 27 to travel to Leipzig, to the final. That said, when you arrive in Germany, be careful, see which historical figure you praise this time.
