The PP that Ayuso will inherit: a machinery that must be oiled to "win, win and win" and a string of open court cases

• Martha Belver

  Madrid

Updated Monday, April 25, 2022-02:11

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• Politics Almeida asks for his share in the Madrid PP chaired by Ayuso

Isabel Díaz Ayuso has repeated almost like a mantra in recent months that she aspires to lead the

because she wants to multiply the

throughout the region.

In those early elections that were held almost a year ago, the regional president won in 175 of the 179 municipalities of the community, she was only four seats short of the absolute majority and she alone added more deputies than the three groups on the left together.

After the pulse that he had with the old leadership of Genoa, the way is now clear to take the reins of the party and grease its machinery with a view to the next electoral appointment in 2023. However, the inheritance that he will receive from his family politics also includes a string of open legal proceedings, including the one affecting the

.

"Absolute confidence in Ana Millán"

, they unequivocally settle in Ayuso's team about the person who has been appointed as vice president of the organizing committee of the regional congress of the PP on May 20 and 21 that will put an end to a provisional situation in the leadership of the formation that has lasted for four years.

The councilor declared last Friday as an investigator for the alleged commission of the crimes of administrative prevarication, bribery, fraud and money laundering during her previous stage as councilor within one of the ramifications of the

.

A prominent party source downplays this fact with the argument that to date

against the president of the Community of Madrid and that cases of corruption such as those that splashed Valencians Francisco Camps and Rita Barberá "remained in nothing".

To which he adds: «The media left makes a lot of noise, but we have to be very careful».

When the regional congress of the PP in Madrid is held next month in which Ayuso will be crowned as leader, there will be just one year and one week left for the next elections, which will be both regional and local.

In those of 2019, the electoral map of the region was dyed blue in

, although they did not even reach half of the total existing ones.

election strategy

"We are going to prepare the party's structure to

, summarized graphically on the first floor of the party based on Génova Street.

“The objective is to achieve absolute majorities where we govern without them, to try to recover the mayorships where we are now in opposition and to be able to opt for city councils in which we have never entered,” they add.

The popular people of Madrid indicate that they are not yet at the level of concretion of defined strategies, but it is likely that at least three geographical axes will be established in the attempt to reconquer consistories that they controlled in past legislatures: the

(Alcorcón, Getafe, Leganés , Móstoles and Parla) the

(Alcalá and Coslada) and the

(mainly Alcobendas and San Sebastián de los Reyes).

They will also try to enter feuds hitherto impregnable for their initials, such as

and

.

To do this, the first thing Ayuso will do is form his

, about which the only thing he has revealed so far is that he will have an "agile and executive" structure and that he plans

so that each one is 100 % focused on his own.

This will already mark the first notable difference with his predecessors in office, Cristina Cifuentes and Esperanza Aguirre, who surrounded themselves in Genoa with the same trusted people they had in Puerta del Sol.

The sources consulted by this newspaper take it for granted that this new organization chart will include Ana Millán, whose name has already circulated through the pools of directors who were going to join the regional Executive after 4-M to deal with the Family and Social Policy portfolio, which finally went to

.

The mayor of Arroyomolinos, charged nine months later, said last Friday after declaring in the Investigating Court number 6 of Navalcarnero that she trusts that her complaint "will be archived in the coming weeks" because it is "political" and only seeks to discredit her, reports Eph.

unclosed cases

Among the open cases that affect the PP in Madrid, the one that maintains Aguirre herself with the condition of being

stands out for allegedly "forging" a plan to divert public money from the regional government to the party and that also affects another former regional president, Ignacio González.

Cifuentes was also initially linked to the

, but the investigations against her were ultimately dismissed.

In different phases are the

proceedings , for which González is awaiting trial for alleged manipulation of public contracts for

, and that of the

, which will seat former councilor

on the bench for alleged irregularities in the ill-fated project to unify the judicial offices in Valdebebas.

, alias

, entered prison

, sentenced to 36 years in prison for illicit association, bribery and prevarication, among other crimes, within the

plot .

Even so, in the PP of Madrid they do not fear that all this could take its toll on them again at the polls as it did in 2019.

The return of the 'plumber' from Genoa

Juan Carlos Vera was the person in charge of organizing the PP since the times of Manuel Fraga, deputy in Congress for 26 consecutive years, director of the electoral campaigns of Esperanza Aguirre and Cristina Cifuentes in the Community of Madrid and member of the extinction teams of fires in all internal crises.

Pablo Casado removed the historic 'plumber from Genoa' in 2019 -compensating him with a comfortable retirement of 97,166 euros gross per year as manager of the Villa de Madrid Country Club- and now he returns to the political backstage as president of the organizing commission of the regional congress that will anoint Isabel Díaz Ayuso as party leader in the region.

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