After several months of waiting, the president of Spain, Mariano Rajoy, chose tonight to Esperanza Aguirre and Cristina Cifuentes as candidates to the City and Madrid, respectively, in municipal and regional elections of May 24, and step he buried the political aspirations of Ignacio González, yet regional president, involved in a case of alleged corruption.
The duo Aguirre-Cifuentes is the bet of the conservative ruling Popular Party (PP), which historically has ruled in Madrid, but that crosses low hours precisely the constant frame of alleged corruption involving tens of ruling party.
For now, the polls show that the PP government could lose both Community and City Council through partnerships between various parties, especially the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), can and Citizens and Union Progreso y Democracia (UPyD) and even a weakened United Left.
That is, it will be a contest in which the objective is to drive the right of Madrid. The secrecy of Rajoy to decide the locals applicants was exhausting for all the PP in Madrid, but Rajoy knew his time and finally decided today.
In recent months, Ignacio Gonzalez had publicly stated on several occasions his desire to head the candidacy of PP in Madrid, an option that began to weaken earlier this week when the newspaper World reported that Gonzalez had asked for help two policemen to hide for allegedly buying anomalous your attic in Marbella, one of the most exclusive summer resorts in the country.
It was a lethal research of Spanish newspaper that during most of the week published a serial in detail what happened to the case . Gonzalez appeared to “disprove” that information in a press conference in which denounced police “blackmail”, while talk of an operation to prevent the headliner out of PP.
Despite his continued statements trying to push for this issue would not influence his appointment, most charges PP distances marked with the Madrid president, who saw “politically dead” as party supplies.
investigation of World , in any case, gave Rajoy other arguments needed to wean Gonzalez, who has never had a good feeling. It was then that the president chose Spanish Cristina Cifuentes, a moderate policy and to this Government Delegate in Madrid, highly valued for its work and its low profile.
And that Rajoy ensures that no Cifuentes will back any case as affecting González that can be used by the opposition as an electoral weapon during the next two months of the campaign.
Although it is taken for granted, even from the PP, that cases of corruption that have dotted the party these years as the “plot Gürtel” and “Barcenas case” will be used as “weapons” by the opposition.
The relationship between Rajoy and Gonzalez was never good and, Indeed, the current Madrid president was faced with the chief executive of an Executive Committee in 2008 when Esperanza Aguirre aspired to become president of the PP.
In recent years, improved communication through the work general secretary of the PP, María Dolores de Cospedal, friend of still president of the Community.
The case of Esperanza Aguirre, current leader of the PP in Madrid, is different. The former president of the Community has a special “pull” between Madrid although he doubted it was candidate due to his resignation when the economic crisis experienced its highest point.
But Rajoy, according to the press Local, Aguirre knows that in addition to controlling the PP Madrid- guarantees thousands of votes in the capital which also can serve for the next general elections, scheduled for November or December of this 2015.
After learning who had been removed from the contest, Ignacio González regretted that an “orchestrated in recent weeks campaign has influenced the decision on the application” of the PP to the regional office.
Sources of regional government told Efe that González also expressed their commitment to continue working for the locals until the elections with the “same dedication and commitment” in recent years.
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