The president of the Madrid’s community, Isabel Diaz Ayusogave his traditional speech this Thursday to celebrate Dos de Mayo, day of the region, during the solemn ceremony held at the Royal Post Office. The Madrid leader has boasted of a Madrid “for everyone”, open, a crossroads of cultures and at the service of the national team.
“We have always known that these are not about ourselves”proclaimed Díaz Ayuso, in an intervention with more emotional than political charge, despite the same week of President Pedro Sánchez’s decision to continue leading the Government with a renewed spirit and with reforms in the Judiciary and the media in the agenda.
Díaz Ayuso has recognized the Heroes of May 2, 1808, among whom there was already a majority of citizens not from Madrid but from other provinces, according to reports, who rose up against the French invader. “Abuses and injustices do not triumph here”the president assured, to point out at another time that the Madrid of more than 200 years ago was “so similar to the one of now.”
The winners
The first to receive a Grand Cross has been the National Police for its 200th anniversary. The more than half a thousand guests gave a loud ovation to Manuel Soto Seoane, Chief of Police of Madrid, and María Jesús Díaz Recuero, Secretary General of the Chief of Police of Madrid, those in charge of collecting the award. Then the health professionals in training, the future of Madrid health. Four residents from different specialties, such as Pharmacy and Psychology, have collected the award.
Romanians residing in the Community of Madrid. Made up of more than 144,000 people, it is the largest of all the foreign communities in the region. He has also been awarded the First Corporal of the Army, Fernando Martín Pozuecowho on the night of September 3, 2023 in Villamanta helped his neighbors get safe from the torrential rains that devastated the western part of the region.
The president of Telefónica, José María Álvarez-Pallete, has collected another of the distinctions, awarded for the centennial of the telecommunications company. “We receive this recognition with great honor and great responsibility,” said the manager, to boast that in towns such as Leganés, Patones or El Atazar there is more optical fiber than in London and in the region “more connectivity” than in the United States.
The auditorium stood up again when the first sergeant of the Civil Guard, José María Ortiz Díaz, stationed at the Torrelaguna post, collected a Grand Cross posthumously to his companion José Antonio Rosa Alcocer, died last week in an act of service in San Agustín del Guadalix. The standing ovation in memory of the ill-fated agent has been one of the most exciting moments of the medal ceremony.
The marriage formed by Elena Huertas and Octavio Torres They have collected another distinction for their work as a foster family for homeless minors for years. They have preceded on stage the model Nieves Álvareztwo representatives of the concierges and doormen of the properties (Montserrat Gurumeta Colmenero and Eduardo Esteban del Pozo) and the basketball player Rudy Fernándezwhich has also received a loud ovation from the more than half a thousand guests present at the Real Casa de Correos.
Constantine Mediavilla, journalist and chronicler of the Town of Madrid, has received another great cross for his vast career. “Forty years telling things about Madrid, learning from many,” stated the communicator, who had a memory for Victoria Prego, who died this week, and has made a plea in favor of journalism, health workers and caregivers.
A video has remembered some of the main personalities who died in the last year, just before the members of the Camela group, Mari Ángeles Muñoz and Dioni Martínhave received recognition for their career as pioneers of “techno rumba” with which they have sold millions of records in recent decades.
Alberto García Barrenechea, dean of the Illustrious College of Attorneys of Madrid; and later Javier Escaned and Julián Pérez-Villacastín, doctors in the Cardiology service at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital, have been decorated with other Great Crosses of the Order of the Second of May.
Also Rayo Vallecano It has been recognized for its centenary, which will be celebrated in 2024, in the figure of its president, Raúl Martín Presa, and Iris Ponciano, captain of the women’s team. The members of the Grupo Crónica Pilar García-Cernuda and Antonio Casado were the last to take the stage. “It is incomprehensible that at this moment journalists and judges are demonized,” the journalist proclaimed, a line that her colleague has delved into, who has defended the profession’s access to information “through unregulated channels but no less effective and virtuous.”
Expansion will continue.
