Toni Cantó leaves the Community of Madrid after his controversial time in Madrid politics. A year and a half after being appointed director of the Spanish Office in Madrid, the politician and actor will soon leave the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports where Isabel Díaz Ayuso found him shelter after multiple fights with Genoa.
Cantó’s departure will take place just a few months after an electoral contest in which it was foreseeable that he would not have a place. His arrival in the Community was practically a Imposition of Pablo Casado’s team on Ayuso, a toll that she paid but from which she has later tried to make a profit. She now she leaves a Spanish Office that the opposition has always called a “chiringuito” and whose balance they discredit as low, although in the Community they defend the service record of this entity.
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Just a few weeks ago, Cantó himself said in an interview in El Periódico de España, a newspaper that belongs to the Prensa Ibérica group as well as this medium, that he agreed to speak about his new book and not as a high-ranking official in the Community, that his time in politics would come to an end in PP (“I don’t think he’ll ever join any political party again”) and that he would return to his acting career. But this he also said before, when he left Ciudadanos. He took a few days to join the PP.
Variety of matches
In his career as a politician, Toni Cantó has played many roles, first as a member of Neighbors by Torrelodonesthen as deputy of UPyDlater head of citizens and finally, now, as head of a government of the People’s Party. He sang that he was leaving Rosa Díez’s party when it lost representation in the Congress of Deputies, but he kept a seat hand in hand with Albert Rivera in Ciudadanos as a spokesperson in the Valencian Parliament. There he stayed when Ines Arrimadas took the reins of the formation after Rivera’s resignation, but the party entered a decline that has not stopped until now and Toni Cantó knew how to leave that ship in time to get on yet another. He clung to the cane that Pablo Casado’s team launched from Genoa to different members of Ciudadanos when the PP tried to absorb the orange party at the cost of signings.
In March 2021, Cantó made some resounding public statements assuring that he was leaving that party, completely abandoning politics and that he would return to his profession as an actor. But only a few days later it became known that he had already negotiated his inclusion on the lists of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who had called an election on May 4, 2021 precisely to try to get rid of his then vice president Ignacio Aguado and his entire orange team. .
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But if the signing itself was convulsive because Génova imposed Cantó on some lists in which Ayuso did not want to have him, it was even more so later when the constitutional Court ruled that the actor had not been registered in the Community of Madrid long enough to legally access an elected position in the region. That fight between Ayuso and Genoa on behalf of Cantó was just an appetizer of everything that came later in the PP, but at that time, shortly after winning the elections, Ayuso finally agreed to incorporate Cantó into his government as director of the Spanish Office, a newly created post.
Legacy in the Community
A year and a half after his appointment, Cantó was until now in the organization of the second edition of the Festival de la Hispanidad, with which the Community of Madrid intends to accompany the military parades on October 12 with cultural and festive events for several days . The first edition held last year was precisely the debut of Toni Cantó in office, whose public visibility has been scarce and unclear, although the regional government strives to explain that important work has been done to place Madrid as a focus investment attraction around our language. The second edition is waiting to know who will direct it.