He has been working hard for a year to keep the culture as open as possible, for the sector and for the citizens.
"It is our soul vaccine," he says.
His position in the Consistory makes him compatible with the leadership of the Popular Party, since he belongs to the National Executive and the Steering Committee, the 'hard core' of Pablo Casado.
Madrid has kept culture semi-open since last year, to a greater extent than other big cities. How long until we get back to normal? I believe that in September we will recover 100% of the capacity in culture, which is what we still have to overcome and it is the obstacle that some private cultural spaces have, since 75% do not they get the numbers. This week we learned that
The Lion King
, the most important musical, opens in September. It is already working on Los Veranos de la Villa, what will it be like this year? Los Veranos de la Villa will once again have two months of programming and we will look for perimeter spaces and with capacity at 75% , although we still do not know what the health regulations will be in July and August. Such is the learning we had in the lockdown and de-escalation of 2020 that we worked hard to reopen in September of last year. Madrid's cultural success has not been accidental; We worked like wild boars with the sector so that this city could live thanks in part to cultural activity. So we coined the concept of safe culture. Will they already have a pre-pandemic budget? The level of hiring is triple that of 2019 and more than double that of last year, with 2.3 million.And as for the programming, how will they be different? They will be shows preferably outdoors with reduced capacity and always perimeter, so that it can be controlled. Everything we have done has gone well because we have adopted the necessary security measures. Los Veranos de la Villa will have the most transversal programming possible so that everyone can find what they like: from zarzuela to indie; from dance to the most experimental theater. We have also tried to decentralize it as much as possible. Culture has been our emotional vaccine. And why has the Madrid Cool festival been suspended again? The problem with international festivals is that the major tours have been postponed until 2022. The festivals that bet on Spanish groups, to which the City Council has opened a new line of subsidies,yes they will be able to celebrate. We make a firm commitment to Madrid as a cultural identity because it is the best brand to show ourselves to the world as a city of reference. And we are. The world looks at us to find out how we have achieved this success and why everything was open in Madrid. And they don't just look at us. Now everyone wants to come to Madrid. We have been two years without festivals and almost without San Isidro. This August will there finally be parties and festivals? We are seeing how the sanitary restrictions are progressing and we are very up to date. But I think that very limitedly we will return to normality of the parties and festivals in Madrid, with caution. What did you think of the controversy of the Madrid medals, when the PSOE did not support the recognition of Ana Botella and criticized Andrés Trapiello's,going through a rectification and even the disavowal of the Minister of Culture? It was incomprehensible. But the PSOE in Madrid is in search of its place in the world. The PP has shown with the victory of May 4 that we have been humble managers to govern for all. That is why we have won in the 21 districts of Madrid, including where we had never won before, such as Puente de Vallecas. You are not fooling the voter. When he has seen you work, that you have left your skin in these difficult months for Madrid to survive, you receive this support. The initials of the PP in these elections have transcended the party and we have become the formation that was working alongside the people to get ahead. Are you dismantling Medialab, as the opposition denounces? The opposition is very lost.Medialab as a project is still where it was. What we are doing is a reconfiguration of the Slaughterhouse, that is why we tripled the meters that Medialab is going to have. We maintain the entire project, no one has been fired and the schedules continue. How will Ayuso's overwhelming victory influence the City Council's government team? On May 4, we won in all the districts of Madrid. We will know how to represent that borrowed vote. But that result is no accident. Voters are not fooled. If you work, they thank you at the polls. And that goes beyond ideologies. At a time when people needed leadership, the PP has given it to the Community and City Council. Do you think Ciudadanos will also disappear from the City Council? Support for Ciudadanos has suffered a severe blow in recent electoral contests.What we have shown is that to win the elections we cannot go three separate. To end the sanchismo, we need to be one, not three. As a leader of the PP and as a Catalan, do you think that the pardons to the leaders of 1-O can contribute to "the normalization of political life in Catalonia", as the Government? Not at all. It would be to renounce the space of legality and constitutionality that was applied with the sentence. It would be a humiliation to accept the blackmail of some leaders who would do it again. You were deputy spokesman for the PP in the Catalan Parliament. What is Pablo Casado's plan for Catalonia? Show that we are a party that, above the slab of the independence project, intends to implement a political recovery project for Catalonia.The suffocation that nationalism is slowly producing will make people want to breathe at some point. Three months ago, the Catalans voted and placed the PP as the last party in Parliament, with three deputies. Why does your project not seduce the Catalans? It is very complicated when three political forces go separately; that proposal was made by Pablo Casado. Later, they are elections in which the usefulness of the vote is more important than ever and our vote will always serve to create a constitutionalist government that respects the law. Citizens asked the PP to go in coalition in Catalonia and you rejected it. a unique brand, Spain Suma. And they didn't want to. What the parties have not been able to unite, the citizens will unite with their vote. A few dates ago, he made public his disease, fibromyalgia,because she felt unfairly attacked. Have these attacks been reduced? I have managed to make visible a disease that many people suffer and that has a double stigma: the pain it causes us and that of misunderstanding. Now it's easier for me to say 'I'm not 100% today.' I have a disease that sometimes won't let me get out of bed. And I do not have to suffer constant harassment from those who said that I did not attend to my responsibilities. You are very active in social networks and you also have a very direct and aggressive style with the political adversary. Has that taken a toll on you many times? On the internet I'm trying to be a bit digital zen on the recommendation of my team. But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.Have these attacks been reduced? I have managed to make visible a disease that many people suffer and that has a double stigma: the pain it causes us and that of misunderstanding. Now it's easier for me to say 'I'm not 100% today.' I have a disease that sometimes won't let me get out of bed. And I do not have to suffer constant harassment from those who said that I did not attend to my responsibilities. You are very active in social networks and you also have a very direct and aggressive style with the political adversary. Has that taken a toll on you many times? On the internet I'm trying to be a bit digital zen on the recommendation of my team. But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.Have these attacks been reduced? I have managed to make visible a disease that many people suffer and that has a double stigma: the pain it causes us and that of misunderstanding. Now it's easier for me to say 'I'm not 100% today.' I have a disease that sometimes won't let me get out of bed. And I do not have to suffer constant harassment from those who said that I did not attend to my responsibilities. You are very active in social networks and you also have a very direct and aggressive style with the political adversary. Has that taken a toll on you many times? On the internet I'm trying to be a bit digital zen on the recommendation of my team. But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.the pain it causes us and the pain of misunderstanding. Now it's easier for me to say 'I'm not 100% today.' I have a disease that sometimes won't let me get out of bed. And I do not have to suffer constant harassment from those who said that I did not attend to my responsibilities. You are very active in social networks and you also have a very direct and aggressive style with the political adversary. Has that taken a toll on you many times? On the internet I'm trying to be a bit digital zen on the recommendation of my team. But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.the pain it causes us and the pain of misunderstanding. Now it's easier for me to say 'I'm not 100% today.' I have a disease that sometimes won't let me get out of bed. And I do not have to suffer constant harassment from those who said that I did not attend to my responsibilities. You are very active in social networks and you also have a very direct and aggressive style with the political adversary. Has that taken a toll on you many times? On the internet I'm trying to be a bit digital zen on the recommendation of my team. But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.And I do not have to suffer constant harassment from those who said that I did not attend to my responsibilities. You are very active in social networks and you also have a very direct and aggressive style with the political adversary. Has that taken a toll on you many times? On the internet I'm trying to be a bit digital zen on the recommendation of my team. But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.And I do not have to suffer constant harassment from those who said that I did not attend to my responsibilities. You are very active in social networks and you also have a very direct and aggressive style with the political adversary. Has that taken a toll on you many times? On the internet I'm trying to be a bit digital zen on the recommendation of my team. But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.But there is so much conversation that sometimes it is impossible ... And you react too strongly. We can't comment on everything because in the end we end up angry.
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