Ayuso is left without his economic and political gurus: Lasquetty leaves politics and Ossorio will be president of the Assembly

Isabel Díaz Ayuso had already warned that the renewal in her future regional government would be profound. So much so that not even his two heavyweights will continue to hold their positions. The vice president and Minister of Education, Enrique Ossorio, will leave his position in the Executive and will be the new president of the Madrid Assembly, replacing María Eugenia Carballedo. Nor will Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, a fundamental pillar in the fiscal strategy undertaken during the last four years by the Community of Madrid, repeat as head of the Economy and Treasury.

As EL MUNDO has learned, the economic guru of the Community of Madrid will leave political life for the moment to continue his career in the private sector. But his departure from the Community of Madrid will be with honors because until the appointment of the new Government on June 26, the date they have set at Puerta del Sol, he will maintain his current portfolio and will be appointed acting vice president, advisor to the Presidency and Education counselor.

In Ayuso's team they affirm that this is the way to recognize the work of the person who has designed the fiscal model of the regional Executive, focused on a continuous reduction in taxes, granting it for two weeks “the maximum powers” that no political office has had in the Community of Madrid. Lasquetty's departure leaves a hole in the economic structure.

However, sources consulted by this newspaper point to the figure of Manuel Llamas, current Deputy Minister of Economy, as one of the important people within Ayuso's economic organization chart.. In fact, he has always been close to Lasquetty, with whom he shared the Board of Directors and with whom he served as Chief of Staff.

The second important figure to leave the regional government, Enrique Ossorio, will do so this Tuesday, when the Madrid Assembly is formed, which will be chaired by him. This is the way chosen by Ayuso to relocate who has been one of the pillars on which the political action of the Executive has been based. Because beyond his functions as vice president, spokesman and Minister of Education, he has been in charge of drafting the last two electoral programs of the Popular Party in Madrid: that of 4-M and that of the past 28-M, when the popular ones recovered the absolute majority that they had not achieved since 2011 in the capital.

Now his powers will focus on presiding over an Assembly dyed mostly blue, a way of relocating to a friendly position who has served as Ayuso's political guru. But Ossorio's experience within the Community of Madrid extends beyond the figure of the current regional president. Because already in 2012, with Esperanza Aguirre at the head of the Executive, the head of Education was appointed Minister of Economy and Finance. In 2015, with the arrival of Cristina Cifuentes, he became spokesperson for the Popular Parliamentary Group, and after Ayuso's victory on 4-M he took on the responsibilities of government spokesperson, Minister of Education and vice president.

Precisely that vice-president position was the one that the popular leader never granted to Enrique López, placed by Pablo Casado as his trusted man in the Community of Madrid on the 2019 lists, despite the fact that he was de facto number 2 in the last legislature. , even during the coalition government of the PP and Ciudadanos. Now, the Minister of the Presidency and Interior will resign his position to return to the judicial career, since he has a position in the National Court as a magistrate.

Already on February 8, López had announced his resignation from the Popular Party militancy to begin his return to the judiciary; And now, with his departure from the regional government, that return would culminate.

To these three departures from the Ayuso cabinet are also added those of the Local Administration and Digitalization councillors, Carlos Izquierdo; that of Transport, David Pérez, and that of Culture, Marta Rivera de la Cruz. All of them placed by the regional president on the municipal list of José Luis Martínez-Almeida, where they will also carry out government work in the Madrid City Council. Thus, the only unknown that remains in Puerta del Sol is what will happen to Paloma Martín, Minister of Environment and Housing.

According to popular sources consulted by this newspaper, he is a highly valued figure both by Ayuso herself and by the national president of the party, Alberto Núñez-Feijóo, even making it possible for him to be included in future lists for Congress, which would prevent his continuity in the Community.