Isabel Díaz Ayuso tries to build on the emigrant vote her double dream of achieving an absolute majority in the regional elections of 2023 and of recovering the municipal councils governed by the PSOE in the south of the region (Alcalá, Móstoles, Fuenlabrada, Leganés... .).

After winning 65 deputies in the May 2021 elections, the conservative leader opened the congress this Friday that will make her president of the Madrid PP with the Spanish anthem, a video in which the Cuban flags are highlighted (under the epigraph "plurality") and Venezuela, and a specific commitment: that the new management team of the conservative formation have a specific portfolio focused on the people of Madrid who live abroad, and another for families who have emigrated from other countries to settle in the region.

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"There are two new areas, people from Madrid abroad, so that they do not disassociate themselves from the house, and that they nourish us with suggestions and contributions", said Díaz Ayuso during a press conference to which he has arrived chased by a cloud of journalists and affiliates.

“And I am recovering the area that existed long ago for the new people from Madrid, who come from all corners of the world, because I believe in miscegenation”, she stressed.

"I want them to have a defined space."

Upon taking power in the party, Díaz Ayuso fills a fundamental part of his political discourse with organic content.

During the electoral campaign of May 2021, the then-candidate raised the specter of communism and multiplied references to Venezuelans who have arrived in Madrid, warning voters that, in her opinion, Madrid risked experiencing the ruin of Venezuela. if the left of Ángel Gabilondo (PSOE) and Pablo Iglesias (Podemos) managed to govern.

A way to attract newcomers who have already acquired nationality, and can vote, to the acronym of the PP, in addition to the descendants, already born in Spain, of those who preceded them on that trip.

"We have to open the doors and windows [so that they join the PP] to those who want a political change in Spain", said Díaz Ayuso, who has advanced a reduction of the internal structure of the organization in Madrid, and the bet by names unknown to the general public.

At the same time, the decision to include a portfolio "for the new people of Madrid" in the new organizational chart of the PP, which aims to replicate the distribution of functions of the regional government, brings training back to the times of Esperanza Aguirre: the baroness already had a council of immigration and cooperation, headed by Javier Fernández Lasquetty, today Minister of Economy, Employment and Finance of Díaz Ayuso.

To Aguirre, precisely, the public of the Popular Congress has dedicated a standing ovation, which has also received the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida.

The recognition for the former president, investigated in the Punic corruption case, and the alderman, worn out by his work as spokesperson for Pablo Casado's PP, has reflected the attempt to close the ranks that the party is seeking in Congress.

"We began an exciting adventure in 2019", said Martínez Almeida during his speech before the plenary, which he filled with references to his subordination to Díaz Ayuso.

"This adventure has many chapters left," he added.

“Here you have your partner”.

His speech, which reflects who has won and who has lost the PP's internal war, has served as a warm-up for the two speeches that Díaz Ayuso will star in over the weekend.

Converted into the sole reference of the party in Madrid, the conservative leader already accumulates institutional (regional president) and organic (party president) power.

Two things are certain: Díaz Ayuso has sculpted a new organization in his image and likeness, focused on facing the municipal and regional elections of 2023 around criticism of Podemos, Más Madrid, the PSOE, and Pedro Sánchez, the president of the government.

No brake on economic bankruptcy

“In addition to managing, we have to attend to serious problems in our country”, the new president of the PP of Madrid has prescribed during her press conference.

“We have the most authoritarian government since the dictatorship”, she has continued.

"They erode the institutions that make us strong as a country," she has opined.

"Spain is heading without brake to an economic bankruptcy: the sectarianism of bad socialism is only being overcome by its incompetence", she has continued.

And she has finished: "The solution for Spain is in the PP, and especially in the PP of Madrid."

It has not been a minor reference.

The coexistence between Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the new president of the national PP, and Díaz Ayuso, already enthroned as a leader with absolute power in Madrid, will mark the future of the conservative party.

After the open civil war between Pablo Casado and Díaz Ayuso, the party has open wounds and cannot risk a new conflict.

The Andalusian elections will be in June.

In less than a year the municipal and regional ones arrive.

And on the horizon are the generals.

For this entire electoral cycle, the notice launched this Friday by Díaz Ayuso to the new leadership of the party: the PP of Madrid must play a key role, providing the nerve of the ideological battle to the pause focused on the management experience offered by the Galician leader.

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