Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the big winner of the elections …

Winner of the Rotunda of the regional elections in Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso imposed herself on Tuesday as a figure of the Spanish right. Barely two years after his arrival as the great unknown to the presidency of the richest region of Spain, Díaz Ayuso encouraged the People’s Party (PP) to double the result obtained in 2019, from 30 to 65 of the 136 seats in the regional parliament. If it is not enough to obtain the absolute majority set at 69 seats, the PP has already guaranteed the support of the far right of Vox, which has added 13 deputies.

“Today, from Madrid, we will find the pride, the coexistence, the unity and the freedom that Spain needs”Diaz Ayuso celebrated a moving celebration in front of hundreds of supporters of the PP headquarters in Madrid. He also predicted a bleak future for President Pedro Sánchez’s socialist PSOE, warning that “The way of governing with pride and hypocrisy of Moncloa has its days numbered”.

A journalism graduate, the 42-year-old woman had been in power for just six months when the region of 6.7 million people became the epicenter of the first wave of the coronavirus in Spain. Although Madrid reached the highest cumulative number of infections and deaths in the country, Díaz Ayuso maintainedvo open bars and restaurants presenting the region as the “capital of freedom”. And although the opposition attributes the high mortality to this lax policy and underinvestment in public services after years of conservative governments and low taxes, the gamble has worked for them.

Díaz Ayuso quickly emerged as an aggressive policy towards his rivals, consistently placing himself on the opposite end of the Sánchez administration and giving controversial statements. For example, he didn’t hesitate to describe the precarious residences in a neighborhood south of Madrid that had been without electricity for months, or to attack the socialist government’s plans to exhume the remains of dictator Francisco Franco in 2019. ” What will happen next? Will the neighborhood parishes burn down like in 1936? ”He asked, referring to the Spanish Civil War.