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Beyond his status as spokesperson for the Community of Madrid,

Enrique Ossorio

has emerged as the main public defender of Isabel Díaz Ayuso in the PP's fratricidal war.

While this situation has caused deep discomfort for some of his colleagues in the Governing Council, bound to have to position themselves on one side or the other, he did not hesitate to explicitly abandon the ground of neutrality from the outset.

And it has been in that capacity almost as a

squire

to the president in which he has starred in a carousel of interviews in recent days in which he has even come to

point the way out to the national leadership

of his party: «There are people who know that they have done things that should never have been done, that they have crossed all lines of morality and decency, and, therefore, they should make the corresponding decisions ».

"Full support for Isabel Díaz Ayuso and complete rejection of those who have cruelly tried to eliminate her from politics," she wrote on her Twitter account the day she publicly denounced that the espionage attempt she had suffered was orchestrated by the leadership. from Genoa, with Pablo Casado at the helm.

“Envy has led them to commit the greatest indignity.

The PP family is noble and has principles.

You can't accept what happened.

#YoConAyuso

», she added.

Graduated in Law and official of the Higher Corps of Social Security Technicians, Ossorio is Ayuso's collaborator with the most experience in the public sector, where he has held senior positions since 1996. In addition to being deputy director of the State Tax Administration Agency, he assumed responsibilities in the regional governments of Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón and Esperanza Aguirre and with Ignacio González 10 years ago he was at the forefront of management at the head of the

Ministry of Economy and Finance

, managing to keep the Community of Madrid afloat in the hardest moments of the crisis.

Precisely because of this marked technical profile, accompanied by a contrasting nature of dialogue, Cristina Cifuentes appointed him in 2015 as

spokesperson for the PP in the regional Assembly

.

As the then president had lost the absolute majority that her predecessors had enjoyed, she wanted someone "moderate" for that position who would contribute to building bridges with Ciudadanos, apart from a figure comparable to the one who at that time was the leader of the opposition, the socialist Ángel Gabilondo.

However, Ossorio was entering the field of classic political tension, whose apex reached in the failed debate of the 2017 motion of censure, in which he accused Podemos of being a party of

"pederasts, sexual abusers and drug traffickers". »

.

This was how he responded to the deputy of the purple formation Ramón Espinar, who had previously accused him of going from "stealing" to trying to "regenerate democracy", alluding to the cases of corruption linked to other members of the governments of which had been a part before.

It was during that stage of his professional life that he became intimate with Ayuso, who was his deputy spokesperson in the Popular Parliamentary Group.

She was the one who, already as a candidate for the Presidency of the Community of Madrid, commissioned him in 2019 to prepare his electoral program and then

handed him the Education portfolio

in his first coalition government with Ciudadanos, to which two years later he added the competences of Universities and Science in the Executive that he now holds alone.

It was not a casual decision.

Although until that moment all the public positions assumed by Ossorio had been linked to the economic sphere, his ideological position within the

most conservative wing of the PP

made the president trust that he was the right person to placate the educational demands of Vox, which At the beginning of the legislature, he insistently demanded a parental pin that has never been applied.

"Cult" and "very creative"

And Ayuso cannot have a better opinion of his adviser today.

Just before the PP war broke out in all its harshness, he presented him at a breakfast at the Ritz Hotel as a

"capable, serious and solvent manager"

and a "good, cultured, committed, professional and very creative" man.

«Enrique, also, as I like to do, he gives all the battles and does not let himself be dragged by comfort.

That is why he is tooth and nail protecting the quality of education against government experiments », he added in reference to his battle against the Celaá Law.

Ossorio (62 years old), passionate about classical music and history,

could be the president of Madrid

in 2018, replacing Cifuentes after his resignation.

It was the option that the national leadership of the PP, then led by Mariano Rajoy, viewed with the best eyes.

The intermediation of María Dolores de Cospedal, however, led to Ángel Garrido filling the vacant position.

Today Ossorio is the main public supporter of the person at the head of that Puerta del Sol government that he was about to reach.

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