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María José Calderón (36) is from Don Benito, Badajoz. Although it has more than 35,000 inhabitants, in practice it is a town where almost everyone knows each other. María José, for her neighbors "the granddaughter of Martina who had a grocery store", appeared on the Citizens' lists in Congress and won a seat in the elections of 28-A in 2019. After the repetition of the elections in November of that same year,

the Badajoz stayed out of the Lower House

after the setback suffered by her party. However, the now former deputy continues to work in the

orange

formation

to regain the vote of those who have stopped trusting Ciudadanos. In this, in his words, he has experience. María José finished her Architecture degree in the worst of the brick crisis.

He reinvented himself several times,

traveled throughout Spain, went to Paris and when he had finally found a stable job, he decided to leave it and go into politics.

"At first I said no and I kept it safe. I immediately regretted it," he confesses.

He was a UPyD voter and when Ciudadanos broke in, he joined in 2017.

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At present she has an organic position, that of secretary of organization of Extremadura, which she combines with her professional activity as a self-employed person. From this new task that Inés Arrimadas entrusted him, he intends to continue fighting for Ciudadanos to recover his electorate.

She comes from the land of Hernán Cortés

and is not afraid of the challenge. "It is inevitable to think that since the beginning of the decline of Ciudadanos there have been endogenous causes from 2019 until today. Possibly we will not have done well everything that we should have done well. From political strategy to internal and external communication. In this I am I am very honest and I say things clearly. But it is also true that there are some exogenous causes that do not affect other parties.

The violence with which Rivera was attacked

for standing firm to things that have happened today ... For example, pardons. The PSOE and the PP attack us with great voracity because they want to eat the center, "he says. And he adds:" If Ciudadanos went into decomposition that I neither believe nor want it,

many people would find themselves orphans of vote

. We are in a difficult moment but we continue in the battle, we have to keep our ideas ".

In relation to María José's colleagues who are leaving for the PP, she is clear that no more time should be wasted on these issues. "In the end, each one decides their own path and I think that investing more time in continuing to talk about these comrades who are leaving is what makes us prime a discourse that only interests us. that remains, we stop being in the important thing: proposals, regeneration and debate.

The space where Ciudadanos is continues to exist.

I want to recover the people who do not want to vote for the PP or the PSOE, "he quits.

María José defines herself as a liberal.

She assures that the center is a political space where to go to agree and reach great agreements but that, at the root, she is liberal.

"I am a liberal before I knew what it was to be a liberal.

I have studied from Adam Smith to the Austrian school, Hayek, Ayn Rand and Juan Ramón Rallo ... María Blanco or Professor Rodríguez Braun."

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In addition to in theory, in practice she defines herself as a "liberal ruralita." She has not been oblivious to the debate derived from the publication of Ana Iris Simón's book,

Feria

, in which she speaks from a personal experience about emptied Spain. "In this return to rural areas there is a nostalgia that I do not share. I declare myself a liberal ruralita, which is to understand that there are resources in rural areas with which to move towards something different so that it has a long-term project.

Reinventing those places so that be prosperous for yourselves. "

The

citizen

María José is also very interested in sports. Not in vain has she been linked to football since she was very little, as they say in her town. Learn what it is to practice feminism on the playing fields and denounce "the living room." "I began to whistle games when I was 12 years old. Alone with 22 other boys in front of me.

From the stands they told me everything.

When they saw that I did it like another referee they began to respect me," he argues. In addition to refereeing, he also played futsal. She also doesn't understand the feminism that tells her "don't wear heels." "I love them, why am I not going to wear them, it is absurd. Feminism is a movement that integrates, it is not exclusive, it is transversal."

These same ideas serve to refer to the LGTBI community to which it belongs.

"The left wants a stone mass

with the same needs in the LGTBI community. I do not identify with it. I have received more LGTBIphobia from within the collective assumption than from outside. A sample is the 2019 Pride parade. I was with the banner in the front row and everything came to me ".

María José insists that Spain is one of the best countries in the world to be a woman and belong to the LGTBI community.

"I lived in Paris twice. About 2008, I remember walking down the street with a partner I had at that time I felt more stares than

for example in the last town of Cádiz."

Regarding the murder of Samuel, María José also pronounces: "I believe that there are those who have taken advantage of the cruelty of a hate crime and the misfortune of a family for their ideological and identity gains. There is Justice in this country and I trust that the authors pay for what they have done. "

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