Until the day before the appointment of the PP candidate to the Presidency of the Community of Madrid was formalized, Isabel Díaz Ayuso continued to respond to journalists who daily called her as spokesman for the party in the region to Insistently ask him when the mystery would clear. But a few hours before the announcement came, he stopped picking up the phone: to his own surprise, the Genoa dome just told him that she was the one .

Against all odds just eight months ago, this 40-year-old graduate in Information Science with hardly any experience in management is today the eighth autonomous head of the University of Puerta del Sol and the first to be forced to share a Coalition government with the party that has brought it to power. Now, an Administration with more than 20,000 million euros of annual budget and 200,000 public employees in charge will have to pilot four hands with Citizens.

The election of Díaz Ayuso was a very personal bet of the president of the PP, Pablo Casado, with whom he joins a close friendship since both met in the New Generations of the party, to try to counteract the Vox phenomenon at the polls. The popular candidate lost the elections against the PSOE with the worst result of the formation in the region, but managed to maintain the hegemony in the center-right block that with its numerical majority in the Assembly of Vallecas has allowed its investiture.

Origins in politics

The newly appointed president of the Community of Madrid entered politics in 2006 in the press office of Alfredo Prada , who was an advisor to the Government of Esperanza Aguirre and currently charged with the alleged irregularities committed in the ill-fated project of the Campus of Justice of Valdebebas Soon he won the trust of the then almighty leader, of which he was a few months consultant and left in his hands the digital communication of the party , for which his name has ended up coming out in the summary of the Punic case linked to the improvement contract of the online reputation of party charges, although to date it has not been called to testify or as a witness.

Already in 2011 Díaz Ayuso crossed the windowsill of the Assembly of Vallecas as a regional deputy, a position that revalidated four years later on the list headed by Cristina Cifuentes. She was the one who, before falling out of favor on the subject of her master's degree, entrusted to her in 2017 her first and until now sole responsibility in the Administration , the Deputy Ministry of Presidency and Justice, a position in which she remained just eight months after resigning to his parliamentary act.

Return to the match

His departure from the Government of Sol in May 2018 was practically the only change that Ángel Garrido precipitated when he took command after Cifuentes resigned and bet on a continuous mandate. But she again found accommodation in the party , where in addition to being a spokesman for the PP in Madrid, she assumed the position of vice secretary of Communication at the national level.

And that was the trampoline of Díaz Ayuso towards the front line of politics. Casado had tried to convince historical former popular leaders for the candidacy of the Community, but before the pumpkins harvested he chose to designate a person who had proven to have a strong speech in full internal debate on how to try to minimize the rise of Vox, in addition of being of his entire trust and that, despite his long career in the bowels of Genoa 13, he represented a new generation.

Anthological slides

From there his main challenge was to overcome the handicap of his ignorance among potential voters , for which he embarked on a frantic pre-campaign that chained with the electoral campaign itself through a high media exposure. This made him commit some anthological slips, such as the one that he longed for the traffic jams at three in the morning on Saturdays in the center of Madrid because of Manuela Carmena's fault, although in his team they glimpsed the half-full glass of them that they managed to make his fame transcended beyond the Sierra de Guadarrama.

Step by step Díaz Ayuso was gaining self-confidence, strengthened his speech and began to be safer, even sharp at times , during his interventions before the press. The culmination of his political maturity in forced marches in these months has been his role as mediator with ability to make bobbin lace between Cs and Vox, the two parties he needed for his investiture but with which he has been forced to negotiate bilaterally before his lack of understanding.

Difficulties

The already new president of the Community of Madrid has reached the final stretch of the process for her appointment underpinned by the journalistic information about the properties that her father donated after ruining to avoid an embargo, which could be constitutive of an alleged crime of lifting of assets in any case already prescribed. She has argued that it is a matter of an "anonymous family" who "lost everything in the crisis" and that using it to attack her politically is "absurd."

Díaz Ayuso has also tried to dissociate himself from Aguirre and Cifuentes after the Prosecutor's Office has requested his imputation for the Punic case by saying that his “link” with them has been “like that of any other PP affiliate, neither more nor less” . Now she will sit in the armchair that both previously occupied and that until eight months ago she didn't even imagine she could reach.

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