While the national direction of the PP tries to push him a little more to the primaries and he reveals privately his plans, José Luis Martínez-Almeida also practices fine diplomacy.
According to the world of sources of the Community of Madrid and the City of Madrid, the mayor of the capital was eating at the Puerta del Sol – from the regional government – with Isabel Díaz Ayuso last Thursday, October 28, for
Try to limar “tightness” and renew your commitment to the electoral “ticket” that both form.
It was a secret meeting that they did not know anything, nor some of their closest collaborators.
He was held in the dining room of the regional president and in it Ayuso asked the clear things to Martínez-Almeida what is the current position of him about the leadership of the PP of Madrid and the Regional Congress that is going to celebrate next year.
The national spokesman of the PP replied that he is committed to the third way.
That is, by maintaining the current model, in which there is an organic counterpower between the President of Madrid and the Mayor.
Once again, although not explicit it exactly, what Martínez-Almeida said is that he does not want Diaz Ayuso to be the president of the device, but a third person.
That is what “third way” means, although this does not imply that it seems bad for the baroness to lead the party in the community.
Ayuso took note again from the preference of Martínez-Almeida and reminded him that he wants to present himself to Congress and preside over the PP Madrid, as is already known.
But both agreed that this discrepancy is not an obice to break their “tandem”, or their companionship (both are called “partner” to each other, that is, companion in English).
Thursday is not the first meal they maintain in recent weeks.
In October they found themselves at a restaurant, according to sources from the Puerta del Sol, also to catch up in private.
In the Ayuso environment they consider that these secret meetings are a sign that their relationship is not bad, and believe that the confrontation spurs the national leadership.
“While Genoa sends you, they are going to eat from everything,” herself a source of the PP of Madrid.
Meanwhile, in Genoa, they say that whoever has polarized is the Sol team, when undermined the “authority” of the dome of the party.
So, is there a possibility that Genoa and Ayuso agree with Almeida in the equation?
Sources of the Community of Madrid ensure that they want to avoid a “civil war” and that they are willing to accept a consensus in the future direction of the PP of Madrid, as long as the presidated Ayuso.
In fact, they point to Alfonso Serrano as a future secretary general of training to bind between the two sides.
And Martínez-Almeida would have a remarkable role, underline.
“You can not break the tandem Ayuso-Almeida, and they are breaking it,” insist the sources.
As this newspaper advanced this Wednesday, Genoa would also be willing to accept that Ayuso presided over the device, but only in the hypothetical case that he abandoned his plan and nods the “authority” and the “model” party of the National Directorate,
Without repeating the “errors of other times”, that is, when Esperanza Aguirre concentrated all the power.
