The presence, among others, of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, on the 28th at the event Europe is Hispanic , evidences the importance that the Popular Party attaches to the vote of this group in view of the regional and municipal elections in May.
With several polls that place her close to an absolute majority, Ayuso wants to try to convince as many Latino voters to try to prop her up. And with this act, she hopes to start collecting revenues from the New Madrileños Secretariat – directed by the Venezuelan Gustavo Eustache – that the regional president has created in her party’s organization chart to channel support from “people from outside who have come to Madrid fleeing of their countries’ regimes,” according to his team.
Almost 450,000 foreigners reside in the Community of Madrid who will be able to participate in the municipal elections in May, of which more than 200,000 come from some of the countries that have a reciprocal voting agreement with Spain, such as Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile , Colombia or Paraguay. Countries whose flags the Madrid PP has been strategically slipping in some of its promotional videos.
Many of his messages and actions over the past year have been directed at them, such as the campaign he launched in March 2022 under the title El sueño de Madrid to recognize and make visible Hispanic talent and the integration capacity of the region.
“Since Ayuso is president, he has paid a lot of attention to the Hispanic world. In his speeches he includes references to the people of Madrid from Venezuela, to the people of Madrid from Colombia, to the people of Madrid from Cuba…”, sources from his team have assured EFE.
Feijóo is also aware of the importance of the Hispanic vote. With his arrival in Genoa, he has also appointed a person specifically in charge of the Migration Department, Carmen Cervantes, to establish channels of contact and collaboration with this group of immigrants living in Spain with the aim of addressing their “problems” and “concerns”. , as explained to Europa Press by sources from the party leadership.
As president of the Xunta, Feijóo also sought the support of the emigrants who went to Latin America and made numerous trips to countries such as Argentina and Uruguay, where hundreds of Galician emigrants reside. He has followed that trail as the national leader of the PP and last November he undertook a tour that took him to Chile, Ecuador, Argentina and Uruguay.
With its sights set on the May elections, since there are around 70 days left, the PP has organized an event next Saturday, March 25 in Madrid at the Parque el Paraíso Auditorium, in the San Blas-Canillejas district of Madrid.
Apart from Ayuso and Feijóo, the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, will also speak on this playful-festive day under the title ‘Europe is Hispanic’, which will be enlivened by Latino artists such as the Dominican Henry Méndez or the Carlos Talez orchestra.
In addition, and given that the European People’s Party (EPP) is also in charge of organizing this event, the PP spokesperson in Brussels, Dolors Montserrat, and the Deputy Secretary for Institutional Policy, Esteban González Pons, will participate.
Ayuso dedicates many messages and campaigns to the Hispanic. In October of last year, he presented in Madrid the celebration of October 12 as ‘Hispanidad 2022’ with almost 50 stages to turn the region into a national benchmark for the celebration of the Hispanic language and culture.
“Madrid will be the Plaza Mayor for all of Latin America,” Ayuso proclaimed then, who in his speeches has rejected “lying historical revisionism.” In addition, he has said that many of the citizens fleeing those countries find in the region the “freedom and prosperity that have been taken from them.”
In March 2022, the Madrid president also presented the ‘El sueño de Madrid’ campaign to recognize and make visible Hispanic talent and the Community’s ability to integrate through Spanish-speaking immigrants “an example of improvement, perseverance and success” who “have known how to carve out a future in the region”, according to the Madrid government.
