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Isabel Díaz Ayuso always refers to the PP in Madrid as her "house".

She has spent 17 years of her militancy there.

She began touring the venues with didactic material bought with money from her own pocket to teach social networking courses to her colleagues.

And from now on she will be the person who takes the reins of the organization, an aspiration in her "deserved" opinion that cost her a fight with the old national leadership and that ended with the disintegration of the leadership headed by Pablo Casado.

For this reason, the new leader of the

popular people

of Madrid wanted to thank her successor at the Génova street headquarters,

Alberto Núñez Feijóo

, who included among her priorities the convening of the regional congress in which her appointment was formalized this Friday.

«The trust you have placed in us is such that every time we have talked about the subject you have only asked: 'How can I help you?'

Without guardianship, which you could allow yourself without asking for permission, ”the autonomous leader who carries freedom as a flag has come to affirm.

Ayuso, who has been voted for by 99.1% of the 2,052 delegates, thus becomes the fifth of the PP in Madrid after L

uis Eduardo Cortés

,

Pío García-Escudero

twice,

Esperanza Aguirre

and

Cristina Cifuentes

.

Since the resignation of the latter in April 2018, the party had been in the hands of a kind of manager -although internally they have always resisted putting this label on it- at whose head García-Escudero has once again been, an a priori provisional solution that has ended up lasting for four years.

In her emotional speech, at times on the verge of tears, the regional leader has made it clear that the confrontation with Pedro Sánchez will continue to be her leitmotiv and, although without mentioning his name, in this sense she said that "parties cannot be clubs of friends" because "the stakes are high".

«It must be clear that governments are not inherited by right and that the swallows of Spanish society are not as wide as the gentlemen of the left think.

That you have to be serious and if not... to your house », she stressed.

Ayuso has also wanted to demonstrate from the first minute that she is going to imbue her mandate with personality and for this reason she has already set the first duties for the team that will accompany her on the first floor of Génova Street: “work, work and work”, “respect sacred by the affiliate, the older he is, the more gallons” and “absolute dedication to the citizens”, who are the “bosses”.

In addition, he has warned that it will be "prohibited under threat of penalty and red card to speak with an empowered eco-resilient gender perspective, because that would mean that he has not heard about anything that is happening", he added in clear criticism of the feminist policies of the left parties.

Team

For his new political adventure, Ayuso has surrounded himself with an "almost 100%" renewed regional leadership with whoever was the head of his two electoral campaigns,

Alfonso Serrano

, in the role of general secretary, and

Ana Millán

, investigated by

Púnica

, will be a of the strong women in your organization chart.

The mayor of Madrid,

José Luis Martínez-Almeida

, will be a member of the Autonomous Executive Committee, a chair that according to the party's statutes he must occupy due to his institutional position.

Even so, the Madrid president has had affectionate words for the alderman, assuring that they

are part of the same team

and that, despite the "so difficult times" they have experienced, especially with the pandemic, that they have always worked "with absolute coordination » and that they will once again face the challenge of the 2023 elections together. Thus, the battle ax raised by both leaders is definitively buried precisely on account of the Presidency of the PP in Madrid and the espionage attempt on the baroness's entourage through a company of the City Council of the capital.

Although she only rivaled herself, since she was the only candidate for the position, the dedication of Ayuso's colleagues in the ranks has been total in pavilion 6 of Ifema, where the conclave has been held.

Especially flattering have been the compliments that the four regional presidents have dedicated to him: the Andalusian,

Juanma Moreno

, the Murcian,

Fernando López Miras

, the Galician

Alfonso Rueda

and the Castilian-Leon Alfonso Fernández Mañueco.

Pablo Casado, on the other hand, was the great ignored of the day.

Neither was he invited to participate in the Congress due to his status as a member of the party for the constituency in which it was held, nor was his image included in any of the videos projected on Ayuso's political career, which he was the one who appointed a candidate in 2019.


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