The absolute majority obtained on 28-M at the polls has allowed Isabel DÃaz Ayuso to reformulate her government team in the Community of Madrid without ties, for which the first changes in Education, Economy and Interior are already known.
The president of the Community of Madrid, according to what her team points out, has been outlining for “several weeks” what will be her third government council. And the pools are very open due to the possibility that some of the people in his circle of trust are chosen to be part of the lists for the Congress of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
These lists will not be closed until next Sunday the 18th, so the only confirmations, for the moment, are the departures from Puerta del Sol. The first, Enrique López (Sanidad) already slipped weeks ago but the list of substitutes does not stop grow with up to seven candidates: Antonio Zapatero, Eduardo Raboso, Pedro Irigoyen, Elena Mantilla, Paloma MartÃn, Juanjo Fernández or Fernando Prados.
The current regional spokesman and Minister of Education, Enrique Ossorio will be the new president of the Madrid Assembly. With more than 20 years of experience as a senior position in Finance between the state and regional administrations, Ossorio (Badajoz, 1959) has developed his entire political career in the ranks of the Popular Party held, at different stages, from the group’s spokesperson parliamentarian in the Assembly up to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, that of Culture and Tourism and, currently, that of Education and Youth.
During his spokesperson for the parliamentary group, Ossorio was the boss of Ayuso who was appointed deputy spokesperson along with Elena Gonzalez Moñux who, it should be remembered, denounced the next president of the Assembly for workplace harassment although the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid dismissed for “the total lack of evidence”
The second director to leave Sol is Javier Fernández – Lasquetty. Although, paradoxically, he will do it after a promotion that will last just two weeks.
Given that Ossorio will resign from his positions tomorrow, Tuesday, Lasquetty will assume the vice-presidency of the acting government as well as the Ministry of the Presidency and that of Education until next June 26, when the appointment of the new government is made official.
It may seem contradictory that Lasquetty is going to be the director who has never had the most powers in the Community of Madrid only to abandon all his positions 15 days later. But his departure from the regional Executive is “of his own free will.” In fact, it is not ruled out that he is one of those who join the national lists of the PP.
Very different is the case of Enrique López. The still Minister of the Interior sided with Pablo Casado in the internal war with Ayuso within the PP. And since then, he had fallen out of favor on Sol.
The first impulse of the presidential cabinet was to dismiss him as a counselor, but Ayuso preferred to avoid a government crisis and opted to keep him the Interior portfolio, although he relegated him in the internal ranks, and removed him from his seat in Vallecas, by placing Ossorio as Regional Vice President.
López will leave the government on Wednesday, at his own request, to return to his career as a magistrate and his role in the campaign has been testimonial. His discomfort in recent months not only led him to make the decision to leave politics, but also pushed him to resign from the PP.
