• The Moncloa El Félix for the de-escalation of Pedro Sánchez and his three sensitive missions
  • Encounters Isabel Díaz Ayuso makes a surprise visit to Concha Velasco in the residence where she lives

From the socialist bench of the Madrid act of May 2, Juan Lobato and Reyes Maroto should have stood out. It didn't. In his place emerged, at the party sneaked in, Felix Bolaños. The Minister of the Presidency of the Government aka of Pedro Sánchez was the unexpected protagonist of the festivity of the Community of Madrid. "The minister has to go up" still resonates among the crowd that crowded Sol. Bolaños wanted to enter Ayuso's den with slippers and the response was to literally stop his feet.

Those were other times when Bolaños was paired with Iván Redondo. The last, Oliver, the one who scored the goals, the one who carried the weight of the story and Benji, Bolaños, was limited to being in the background. After the fall of Redondo, Pedro Sánchez has seen in Bolaños the minister who can exercise the figure of valido on behalf of the leader of the PSOE wherever he is required and despite becoming the accidental protagonist of the week. Both teams – Ayuso's and Bolaños' – came out in the way of the controversy claiming that their represented were right, of course.

However, from the point of view of communication, Ayuso was faster than Bolaños. The next day he sat down with Angels Barceló to explain that the government cannot have a master key with which to enter everywhere. Not at home. "What you have to do is sow, sow and sow your point of view. That's what Ayuso tried to do in La Ser. As you let the other be the one who presents his arguments and sneaks his message, you are lost, "says José Luis Martín Ovejero, an expert in non-verbal communication and oratory.

The expert also points out that, according to the gestures that Bolaños had throughout the act, the minister was very nervous. "He looked tense. When he entered the Puerta del Sol he was already very nervous. We see him by the appeasing gestures he had. He rubbed his hands and repositioned his shirt cuffs on several occasions."

Bolaños' nervousness contrasted with the poise of Margarita Robles, who was well known to be invited and who even made physical contact with Ayuso. In fact, it was Ivan Redondo himself who disgraced Margarita for having left her Benji alone. "Robles shouldn't have gone on stage leaving Felix behind. That is inadmissible," he alleged in Espejo Público.

Bolaños, intercepted by the AyusoLASEXTA team

Bolaños did not manage to get on the rostrum but they have dedicated a few in the media. His profile as a discreet and methodical man has changed to give way to headlines of anger and confrontation. They do not think so in their town, Villafranca de los Caballeros, a town located in Toledo but bordering Ciudad Real. "He comes here whenever he can. He's a normal guy, very good people. He doesn't forget his roots," Julián Bolaños, mayor [and relative, given the surname] of the municipality, explains to LOC.

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Bolaños was born in Madrid but his father is from Villafranca de los Caballeros and his mother from another town in Toledo, Fuensalida. They met in the 60s emigrating in Germany and returned to settle in Madrid and open a bird shop in Móstoles. They had an only son, Félix, who studied law at the Complutense University and even got a law position at the Bank of Spain after working in the Uría y Menéndez law firm. "With the money he earned there he had no need to get into politics and yet he has. He joined the PSOE in La Latina and from that moment he combined militancy with his work. For us it is a pride to have a minister of the people, with me he does not need a grandmother. It has put us on the map and also our products. He brought saffron to the Pope." The call of Pedro Sánchez was decisive, once again, for Bolaños to leave his comfortable position at the Bank of Spain to "get into trouble".

Both Bolaños' parents and in-laws live in Villafranca, where his wife, Fatima, became deputy mayor of the town. It was not her most important position since she was appointed advisor to the Cabinet of the Minister of Education with Isabel Celaá. The couple has in common a son with whom they try to spend as much time as possible and whom they take with them to the village especially in summer, to be with his grandparents.

  • Pedro Sanchez
  • PSOE
  • Ivan Redondo
  • Complutense University
  • Ciudad Real
  • Isabel Celaá
  • Reyes Maroto
  • Community of Madrid
  • Toledo
  • Margarita Robles
  • HBPR

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