Carlos Guisasola Madrid
Madrid
Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-18:38
City Hall 'Operation Honeymoon' in Cibeles: Almeida, ready for an unprecedented 15-day relay at Madrid City Hall
There is just over a kilometer of distance between the nineteenth-century building that houses the Chamberí District Council, at number four of the Plaza, and the church of
San Francisco de Borja
, already in the Salamanca neighborhood, with views of the embassy. of the United States. With Paseo de la Castellana as a natural border and the classic Richelieu bar, on Paseo de Eduardo Dato, as a hot meeting point. Both enclaves, the municipal and the religious, are significant for the mayor of Madrid,
José Luis Martínez-Almeida
, in this week marked by wedding issues. Their own and those of others.
And this Thursday, in the countdown to his own meeting on Saturday with
Teresa Urquijo
, and after appearing before the media after the Government Meeting (and receiving the hockey players from the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, winners of the Queen's Cup), went to the Plaza de Chamberí to act as master of ceremonies. Literally. Because when the clock struck 1:30 p.m., Almeida was in charge of marrying his own General Director of the Cabinet,
Jorge Moreta
from Salamanca .
"According to articles 66 and 67 of the Civil Code, husband and wife are equal in rights and duties. Husband and wife must respect and help each other and act in the interest of the family...", thus it began, in a tone seriously, the event in one of the rooms of the Chamberí Board. There were some municipal delegates such as
José Fernández
(Social Policies),
Almudena Maíllo
(Tourism) and, logically,
Jaime González Taboada
, councilor president of the district where the liaison between the head of the Mayor's Office and Patricia, a lawyer by profession, was officiated.
Champagne at the door
"Not yet!" interrupted Almeida, who had to stop the bride and groom when they were already launching into the kiss that sealed the union. "Based on the powers granted to me by article 58 of the Civil Code, I declare that the parties are united in marriage." And in the blink of an eye, Almeida completed her first wedding of the week. There were champagne toasts and streamers at the door of the building. "Now it's your turn," they whispered to the mayor, who had become the protagonist of what is considered the wedding of the year.
Almeida, with the bride and groom.Ángel Navarrete
Theirs will be on Saturday, in the aforementioned Jesuit church of San Francisco de Borja, next to Serrano Street, at around 12:00 p.m. With well-known faces from politics and the Royal Family, among them the
King Emeritus
or the
infantas Elena and Cristina
. "I had never been so nervous in my entire life, I spend the day huffing and puffing, it is also true that I had not been so happy either," he had admitted hours before, from the press room of the Cibeles Palace.
This Friday, before his wedding with Teresa Urquijo, he will have a last appointment with
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
at the Real Casa de Correos, for the signing of a Digital Transformation agreement. They will be the last municipal movements before handing over the items to
Inmaculada Sanz
, the vice mayor, for two weeks.