Argentina's Marquesa, the big star of the electoral campaign in Spain – 24/04/2019

Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, candidate of the conservative Popular Party (PP) in Barcelona, ​​became the media phenomenon of the Spanish electoral campaign by launching poison darts. (with a recognizable Argentine accent) at the heart of the Catalan independence movement.

It is noon and Álvarez de Toledo signs a copy of the Spanish Constitution that he hands over to his faithful on a stand in PP located on Rambla de Catalunya, in the city center, full of stands with books and roses, symbols of the Sant Jordi traditional book festival.

"For a Spain of free and equal citizens, Cayetana", The dedications of the first candidate for the national deputation of Catalonia, in which the supreme leader of the conservatives, Pablo Casado, deposited a good part of his hopes of regaining power for the PP after the elections next Sunday.

Of aristocratic origin (with Spanish and Argentinean blood) is the daughter of Juan Illán Álvarez de Toledo and Giraud, XIIth Marked of Casa Fuente, title she inherited, and Patricia Peralta Ramos, a woman of Argentine high society-, Cayetana is much more than the PP candidate in Catalonia, That's your media bad, your weapon of polarization.

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She studied at the English University of Oxford (she has a degree in history). After pbading through the exclusive Northlands School of Buenos Aires, where he met and became friends with the current Queen of Holland, Máxima Zorreguieta, the policy of the PP uses little specific words to try to hurt his opponents and leaves no one indifferent.

Of his "yes, yes, yes until the end" with which he evoked the claim of the socialists to amend the penal code with regard to badual consent so that an aggression would not be a rape, even by calling for independence "xenophobic" or "golpista" to TV3 (Catalan public television) in full interview, Álvarez de Toledo does not say anything that does not think.

Defend with dedication the Liberal agenda in economic and conservative morality of the PP, with an ironic and lively style which is perceived by its rivals as a sign of arrogance and which calmly responds to criticism and reproach.

That's why the elegant 44-year-old blonde, who wore a red shirt and tight black pants, described a subtle smile when a lady (who was clearly not friendly) he reproached him for not speaking Catalan, what is true

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Christened as "Messi del PP" by Married, who puts it at the top of the list for Barcelona, ​​Cayetana is not afraid of difficulties, quite the contrary.

After leaving the Congress of Deputies in 2015 because of its differences with the moderate course followed by former President Mariano Rajoy, the former deputy from the liberal foundation FAES, created by the former president José María Aznar, chose the difficult challenge: prevent the PP from disappearing in Catalonia, where he has a marginal representation.

In the latter part of the campaign, he found that he was on the right track after shaking hands with Alex, a middle-aged man who had approached signing the books to thank him. of "his wife with eggs".

"I voted for the PP all my life, but for corruption, I changed citizen and, until I heard Cayetana, I thought I'd vote for Vox, "explained this man. tempted by the far right.

To people like him, he sent his message, Álvarez de Toledo, a little later. "Nationalism is like a plague that contaminates everything."

The PP's policy criticized (and once again exasperated) the Catalan President, Quim Torra, for having used his institutional message on the occasion of Sant Jordi to ask for the mediation of Europe in the Catalan conflict and denounce the situation of secessionist leaders. prisoners.

"There are only two options: the continuity of the constitutionalist Spain that represents Casado or the uncertainty and atomization represented by the socialist Pedro Sánchez and his independent partners"insists Álvarez de Toledo, the imam with whom the PP attracts the fragmented vote of the right, both in Catalonia and in the rest of Spain.

Telam Agency.

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