• Fiestas Madrid celebrates a second San Isidro in a pandemic between the emotion for the "sacrifice" and the "hope"

Ana Botella and Manuela Carmena received the Madrid Medal of Honor on May 15 for their status as former mayors of Madrid. After the controversy this week due to the criticism of the PSOE to the recognition of the work of the PP policy and the writer and columnist of EL MUNDO

Andrés Trapiello

, another of the winners on the occasion of the celebration of San Isidro -patron of the capital- , the institutional tone has been imposed in the delivery ceremony held in the gallery of the Palacio de Cibeles.

However, in their speeches of thanks, both former councilors have condemned the current political tension.

Bottle has done so by appealing to the "legacy of concord" of the transition and asking that "no one build walls."

Carmena has urged "to applaud without sectarian structures" and has hoped that the "civil miracle" of having a "different debate" in which "listening to the other" is the priority.

The event was chaired by the current mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.

Accompanied by the deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, he has highlighted from his predecessors that, "apart from the discrepancies from the political point of view", both had a "vocation of public service" and "the firm will to improve the lives of the people of Madrid" .

The medal of honor that Botella and Carmena have received with the support of PP, Ciudadanos y Más Madrid and despite the vote against the PSOE and the abstention of Vox is a distinction that has been awarded to all the council members that Madrid has had since the establishment of democracy.

The first was

Enrique Tierno Galván

, first mayor between 1979 and 1986, who was granted the same year of his death.

In addition to Trapiello, the City Council has awarded the Madrid medal in its gold category to the businessman and academic Gregorio Marañón, the singer José Ramón Márquez (Ramoncín) and the José María de Llanos Foundation.

In the silver category, the winners were the financier Jaime Carvajal, the soccer player Virginia Torrecilla, the taxi driver Matías Martínez Olmo, the Daughters of Charity and the Third Sector Platform.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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