Maria Lopez |
Madrid (EFE) or a professor of History.
They give all of them the numbers to form a government, in an amount that in several cases goes through Vox. These are their profiles:
Carlos Mazon, Valencian Community
Mazón (Alicante, 1974) has won the most symbolic square of this May 28: the Valencian Community. With 40 seats, he must win ten more to reach an absolute majority. His objective in the campaign was to manage without including Vox, with 13 representatives, in his government.
Pablo Casado recovered it for politics, which he had left in 2009, in the last legislature, when he was president of the Alicante Provincial Council and councilor in this city. On his back he has been involved in politics during years of internal tensions in the PPCV due to the fight between Eduardo Zaplana and Francisco Camps.
Conciliator, he also has a musical past. He is a soloist and plays the guitar in a three-member band, ‘Marengo’, with which in 2011 he came to appear among the shortlisted for the Eurovision Song Contest for Spain.
Jorge Azcon, Aragon
Like Mazón, Azcón (Zaragoza, 1973) needs the yeses of Vox to be sworn in as president of Aragon. He comes to regional politics from the municipal arena. For four years he has been mayor of Zaragoza, a city that the left led for 16 years and that will now be managed by the also popular Natalia Chueca.
He is a lawyer and has a master’s degree in urban planning. Harvest New Generations, Casado also bet on him and promoted him to the presidency of the party. Before the crisis, in the environment of the former leader of the PP, the Azcón road, then mayor, was cited to discuss that Ayuso had to preside over the PP of Madrid.
In 2020, he led the so-called “rebellion of mayors” that united councilors of various political colors against the distribution of funds designed by the Treasury.
Maria Guardiola, Extremadura
Guardiola (Cáceres, 1978) is one of the surprises of this electoral campaign. She has won the same seats as the PSOE, which leads the PP by six thousand votes, and has a majority with Vox.
A career civil servant, she has managed healthcare or budgets for twenty years. She was also a council member in her hometown. She claims to be, after José Antonio Monago, the second leader of the PP to govern this traditional stronghold of the PSOE. And she does it alone, despite the fact that she needs the support of Vox to be invested.
Marga Prohens, Balearic Islands
Prohens (Campos, Mallorca, 1982) has won in the Balearic Islands, where the PP lost the Government eight years ago. He has not reached an absolute majority, but the abstention of Vox is enough for him because he alone adds more than all the left together.
She is one of the referents in feminism of the PP and one of the voices that in the party denounced the reductions in sentences by the law of only yes is yes. She returns to regional politics after having been a deputy in Congress. She is a translator and was also signed by Casado.
Gonzalo Capellan, La Rioja
Capellán (Haro, 1972) has gone from being out of politics to achieving an absolute majority in La Rioja in just seven months.
This professor of Contemporary History has a long career linked to culture and education, both in the university and in research and in public administration, as he was Minister of Education in La Rioja and Minister of Education for the United Kingdom and Ireland. .
His designation as a candidate, in the Feijóo stage, has earned him strong criticism from the affiliates who demanded a congress.
Maria Jose Saenz de Buruaga, Cantabria
If there are no surprises, Sáenz de Buruaga (Suances, 1968) will manage to be president of Cantabria, on the second attempt. She, the winner of the elections, is going to get away from Vox thanks to the fact that Miguel Ángel Revilla wants to facilitate governability, a decision that the PRC has to ratify.
Emergency candidate in 2019, by giving up Casado’s first choice, the Olympic champion Ruth Beitia, Buruaga has once again led the list with the approval of Feijóo and this time he has achieved victory.
Linked to the PP since her youth in Nuevas Generaciones, she is a lawyer and has been from councilor to vice president of Cantabria.
He seized the reins of his party in 2017 in a congress so contested that it led to lawsuits -failed- and forced to reconcile sides.
Bonus track: Juan José Imbroda, Melilla
Imbroda (Melilla, 1944) is not an unknown face, but a veteran who regains power in the autonomous city that he managed for 19 years. His is another of the absolute majorities on 28M. In his case, in the context of an investigation for alleged vote buying, with Coalition for Melilla detainees.
All of them join the well-known Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has achieved her long-awaited absolute majority in the Community of Madrid, Fernando López Miras, who needs the abstention of Vox to be re-elected in the Region of Murcia or Juan Jesús Vivas, who must agree to continue leading Ceuta.
The roster of barons of the PP is completed by Juanma Moreno, Alfonso Rueda or Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, who on 28M were not examined in Andalusia, Galicia, or Castilla y León.