To shore up a majority, the Madrid leader needs to be present in Madrid, so her presence has only been confirmed in Bilbao and Valladolid
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, does not have the absolute majority Madrid at her feet, as she would like. Reaching it in a region like Madrid, with such a fragmented parliamentary arc and with Vox resisting, is going to be “expensive”, they acknowledge in her team. But his fellow party members don’t seem to care much. They like Ayuso for what he represents and for what he gets when he takes to the streets, that’s why “all the regional candidates of the PP have claimed their presence in their own campaigns.
Although the leading role is now shared with all barons and candidates popular who aspire to win the regional elections, this lawsuit shows that Ayuso continues to be a asset strong of the party Neither the row of recent weeks with Vox (which may be necessary in other territories where they aspire to govern), nor the past internal party crisis, nor the long toilet strike Among other issues of his administration, they seem to have taken their toll internally in the party.
From Valencia to The Rioja, “all”, insist on the leadership of the regional party, have called the first floor of Genoa to look for gaps in Ayuso’s agenda so that he can go to their respective territories. Even in those where the strategy does not involve agitating the masses, which is what the Madrid president usually does with her confrontational speeches and shock against him “sanchismo”believe that their presence can help “mobilize” the electorate, say PP sources.
only two territories
But to maintain that level of leadership within the national PP and among the baronies, Ayuso needs keep your results and improve them, so he is not going to move much from his base of operations in Madrid. “There will not be a tour of other territories, you have to prioritize“, they explain in their environment. During the next few weeks, they will only move away from the regional borders to visit two very specific places: Castile and Leondue to the geographical proximity, and the Basque Country.
The Madrid leader closes the Bilbao list, as other important leaders of the national PP have done over the past decades in the hardest years of ETA violence. Just as she closes the one in Bilbao, Borja Sémper closes the one in Saint Sebastianwhere he presented himself to the mayor’s office, and Ayuso’s chief of staff, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, that of Durango. Ayuso will be in Bilbao next Saturday May 20, right in the middle of the campaign, with the local candidate, Esther Martinezand Carlos Iturgaizand Rodríguez has been in Durango offering a rally this past Saturday with the local candidate, Carlos Garcia.
But this is going to be the biggest leap. He will be in Castilla y León next Saturday, but he will make his visit to Valladolid with another act in a Madrid municipality in the morning, Collado, which catches him on the way. “Las Castillas” are an option due to their proximity, and the PP is considering the possibility of returning to some capital of La Mancha with Paco Nunezbut nothing is closed yet.
“Nothing for cattle”
“You have to push hard to get the absolute” in Madrid, “there are many municipalities” still to visit, they remember in their party. She herself, in the presentation that she has made in the last weeks of the candidates for the 179 mayors of the region, and later in that of the candidates of the lists to the Assembly and to the Madrid capital, he has insisted a lot in that it is not possible to “give nothing for cattle” and encourages his people by saying that they cannot wait for the results, he pushes them to reject the “conformism“.
They are not just words for a speech and they fit well in that line that the PP uses among young people to favor the effort, the PP really needs to not take anything for granted because there is municipalities where they still need to mobilize their own more if they want keep growing in the region and put a blue mark more in some municipality.
In fact, just as they claim her, the popular leader has also asked whoever she thinks can help her to visit her territory. Ayuso has had in Madrid, touring the southern municipalities his Andalusian counterpart. Juanma Moreno has come to the aid of the popular candidate to help mobilize an electorate that has been more prone to socialist forces in recent decades with the idea of visualizing what they like to repeat so much: “you get out of socialism.”