Ayuso is committed to a government of technocrats and assumes all the ideological weight
Isabel Díaz Ayuso has revolutionized her Governing Council with two premises: renewal and management. The new team will be made up mostly of technical profiles unknown to the general public, but experienced for years in second-level positions in the Administration, both regional and national.. Thus, the president of the Community of Madrid will almost exclusively assume the ideological weight of the Executive, although she has also truffled the organization chart with names of a political nature and those of her circle of trust in the PP executive. This Friday will be the inauguration of the leader, already immersed in the first absolute majority in 12 years in the region.
The still acting president announced this Thursday the new Government of the Community of Madrid, which maintains the nine councils, after extending the unknown for weeks. He did it during the second session of the investiture debate, just a few moments before it was invested by an absolute majority with the votes of the PP and the abstention of Vox. The common denominator of the team is their management experience in public office, sometimes as deputy councilors during the last legislature.
The line to follow by Ayuso has been the same that he applied in the PP of Madrid and in the constitution of the parliamentary group in the Assembly: generational change and betting on the quarry. Fuentes de Sol, however, explain that it is not a randomly selected batch. “They are a quarry, but they have an important track record in positions of responsibility. Miguel Ángel García, for example, has been as vice-counselor in the Presidency or in Economy and Finance”, they underline. García, although the president has dispensed with the vice presidency, will be one of the new strong men in the structure.
The directors who climb the organization chart are Miguel Ángel García (Presidency, Justice and Local Administration), Rocío Albert (Economy, Finance and Employment), Ana Dávila (Family, Youth and Social Affairs) and Carlos Novillo (Environment, Territorial Planning and Inside). The four were in second-level positions during the last legislature and now they assume command. Among the so-called technocrats of the new Executive are Fátima Matute (Health), Mariano de Paco (Culture, Tourism and Sports), Emilio Viciana (Education and Universities) and Miguel López-Valverde (Digitalization)..
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Isabel Díaz Ayuso will now assume all the ideological weight of her Government. The last legislature, although she already had the upper hand, the burden was more or less shared with Enrique Ossorio and Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, supporters of the president on many issues and ideologues of the most liberal policies. Both in tax matters and in the so-called culture war against the left. The departure of both from the Executive, with Ossorio as president of the Assembly and Lasquetty on the exit ramp of politics, give the popular leader a new dimension. From his team, they highlight his leadership in this sense, especially due to the low media projection of the new team.
The sources consulted, however, warn that the renewal of the Government also includes political overtones. The most obvious case is that of Jorge Rodrigo (Housing, Transport and Infrastructure), from the circle closest to Ayuso and vice-secretary of the electoral area in the PP of Madrid. The claim is that he and his colleagues grow under the protection of the president.
In Ayuso's team, they also point to profiles such as Carlos Novillo or Miguel Ángel García, who, although they have background as managers, have also been shaped under the political guidelines of the leader in recent years.. García, in fact, is part of the organic organization chart of the popular as head of programs in the party. And at the same level appears Rocío Albert, who was patron of the FAES and represents the most liberal current within the current Executive. His election to the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment is not accidental, given the low tax policies and anti-interventionism developed by the popular.
The Government of the Community of Madrid will again have nine ministries, with the merger of some departments to illuminate the Digitization portfolio, the great bet for the future in the region. Isabel Díaz Ayuso uses this situation as an argument to attack the Government of Pedro Sánchez, with 17 ministries. “We have the most austere government in Spain,” the popular leader said this Thursday, after announcing that she will slim down the Administration and reduce the number of deputy ministries and general directorates.