Nonchalantly, almost smiling, the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, was advancing this afternoon through the wide corridor of the Spanish pavilion in Fitur, on the way to the exhibitor of his autonomous community. As soon as he arrived, his advisers began to gesture at him and Mañueco’s expression briefly changed: a few meters from his location was the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, who had just given a speech at the Turespaña stand and was now entertaining himself. , near the exit, at the La Rioja post.
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In Fitur, as in most events with a large presence of political representatives, a principle similar to that of Newtonian physics operates. Depending on their relevance, the positions attract a greater number of advisers, sympathizers, sycophants and journalists, who surround them in concentric circles of greater or lesser density. This allows that when two masses cross their nuclei they can pretend not to see each other. This is what happened with Sánchez and Mañueco.
A worker from the team of the Castilian and Leonese president prevented the journalists, taking advantage of the fact that he had been standing still looking out of the corner of his eye at Sánchez’s entourage, from asking the regional leader at what moment he considers that the zygote becomes an embryo, biological issue on which his government partners in Vox insist on meddling. When it was verified that Sánchez’s course was indeed a collision course, Mañueco opted in the first instance to turn around. Then he decided to step aside and take refuge in his own territory.
The President of the Government and his swarm brushed past Manueco, but there was no pause or greeting. After a moment, a journalist from OK Diario managed to plant the microphone in front of the man from Salamanca to ask him about the event. “The unscrupulous man”, he was dispatched, after explaining that he was waiting for Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who had been fluttering through the pavilions all morning without coming across anyone he did not want to see. The senator and leader of the PP was president of the Xunta de Galicia for 13 years and has more experience in Fitur.
This apparently random dance of personalities from political life had placed Sánchez and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, just 20 meters away minutes before. Friday was Madrid day at Fitur, and Ayuso spent a good time on the Madrid stage, flanked by several of her advisers. She was still taking photos with visitors when Sánchez arrived, and when he continued her translation movement, she was already advancing in the opposite direction towards the Ibiza exhibitor.
Family photo without skirmishes in Madrid
Ayuso smiled, and in the Madrid space it did not give the impression at all that Spain was “in the prelude to the Civil War”, as the Madrid leader warned this week. Tourism turns out to be one of the few truly state matters and in the area were practically all the positions of the Executive and the opposition, both from the regional government and from the City Council. In addition to Ayuso, the socialist Juan Lobato, Mónica García, from Más Madrid, and Rocío Monasterio, from Vox. Also the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, the vice mayor, Begoña Villacís, and the opposition leader, Rita Maestre. They all posed for a smiling group photo, machine guns stowed away.
