• Analysis Enrique Ossorio, Ayuso's 'squire' in the PP war

Isabel Díaz Ayuso has remodeled her Government to reward the counselor who was most faithful in her fight against the old leadership of the PP and punish the one who refused to stand up for her publicly, but without triggering a new fire just one year after the next elections.

The solution that she has found to this dilemma has been to appoint

Enrique Ossorio

vice president of the Community of Madrid, thus relegating

Enrique López

, who until now had been de facto

number two

of the Puerta del Sol Executive.

The judge on leave was a person very close to Pablo Casado and, in fact, he joined the regional Executive in the first legislature - that of the coalition with Ciudadanos - within the quota of impositions of the already former leader of the party.

In her second term, now free from the tutelage of Genoa, the regional leader decided to give her the Presidency portfolio in recognition of her work during the pandemic because she was the brains of the successful legal battle against Pedro Sánchez's team for his management of the coronavirus crisis.

However,

Ayuso's trust in López was never total

and he showed it by avoiding crowning him with the category of vice president.

To prevent him from accumulating excessive power and public exposure, neither did he entrust him with the role of Government spokesman, traditionally linked in the Community of Madrid to the one who holds the position of

number two

and who has exercised - and will continue to do so after his promotion - Ossorio himself .

The climax of misgivings in Sol

's engine room

before the magistrate was reached just 24 hours after the internal earthquake that caused the PP to publish the exclusive in EL MUNDO about the attempt to hire a detective agency to spy on the environment of the president.

On the morning of February 18, a call was sent to the media announcing his presence together with two other directors at a press conference to explain the

contract for the acquisition of masks

that was at the epicenter of the controversy, but he finally did not attend the appointment.

López thus led to the

cross

being put on him by refusing to publicly defend the commission of 55,850 euros that

Tomás Díaz Ayuso

charged for participating in that purchase during the first wave of the pandemic.

She was highlighted by the fact that from Genoa - where he was seen as Minister of Justice of Casado if he had arrived at La Moncloa - the possibility began to slip that he would be the replacement for the popular baroness in the event that she also fell for the brother thing.

Despite everything, he will continue to lead the Presidency Council until the end of the legislature, since in the regional Executive he is considered to

be "an asset"

due to his undeniable legal background.

What changes is that from now on he will have Ossorio above him in the hierarchical ladder, for whom the figure of vice president is recovered, eliminated after the expulsion of Ciudadanos from the coalition.

Ayuso and Ossorio. COMMUNITY OF MADRID

“No councilor is isolated, everyone is going to maintain the same powers.

I trust everyone and fully from the beginning," Ayuso argued this Wednesday after personally announcing the new structure, trying to minimize the fact that López displaces it.

“In fact, I believe that we have the most stable government in all of Spain,” he added before recalling that he maintains all the high positions of his first term except for

María Eugenia Carballedo

, whom he replaced as president of the Madrid Assembly after the 2021 elections.

In the final stretch of the legislature, Ossorio becomes the strong man of Puerta del Sol, a role that he will combine with the

portfolio of Education and Universities

that he has held until now.

In fact, he is being the battering ram in the battle of Madrid against the central Executive for the changes in the educational curricula that are being transferred to the new textbooks.

Beyond his status as spokesman for the regional government, the new

number two

also became Ayuso's main public defender in the PP's fratricidal war.

While this situation caused deep discomfort for those who were forced to position themselves on one side or the other, he did not hesitate to explicitly accuse the party's national leadership from the outset of having "crossed all lines of morality and decency".

Ossorio will also occupy López's chair in the Madrid Assembly, so the regional president will no longer have to appear in the photos of the plenary sessions on Thursdays sitting next to a person who

was never one of her closest circle

and whom she now separates subtly a little more to save yourself another crisis.

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