The Community of Madrid celebrates its holiday this Thursday, May 2. He will do it, as is traditional, with a solemn ceremony at the Royal Post Office, headquarters of the regional Government, which will be attended by some 650 guests, including authorities and political representatives and members of Madrid society. everyone will listen Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s speech and will attend the delivery of distinctions from the Executive to a varied list of people and organizations, among which are the National Police, Rayo Vallecano, the Romanian community in Madrid or the members of the Camela group. There will also be a military parade at Puerta del Sol.
The day, like every year, will begin at 10:00 a.m. in the La Florida cemetery. The president of the Madrid Government will travel to this cemetery in the capital to make a floral offering to the Heroes of Dos de Mayo. After the tribute, the president will travel to the Royal Post Office to attend the central institutional event of the day. Just like last year, Madrid residents who wish to do so will be able to follow everything that happens in the institutional event from the screens that have been installed on the façade of the Real Casa de Correos.
At 11:00 a.m. it will begin the ceremony of delivery of the great crosses of the Order of the Second of May. In addition to the above, there will also be decorations for Telefónicathe couple formed by Elena Huertas Zurita and Octavio Torres Román, the first corporal of the Army Fernando Martín Pozueco, the model Nieves Álvarez, the basketball player Rudy Fernández, the journalist Constantino Mediavilla, the Crónica Group, the janitors and doormen of urban farms in the region, health professionals in training and the Cardiology Service of the Clinical Hospital.
This Tuesday, in addition, the Government Council decided to grant another great cross posthumously to José Antonio Rosa Alcocer, the civil guard who died a few days ago during an act of service in San Agustín del Guadalix. After the presentation of the distinctions, Isabel Díaz Ayuso will address those present like every Dos de Mayo celebration. Naturally, no details of her speech are known, but the president usually sends a message on this holiday with emotional overtones, but also with a political charge.
It is not surprising that it refers to the situation of national politics after the period of reflection of Pedro Sánchez and the subsequent announcement of his continuity at the head of the government, as well as a reformist agenda in aspects such as the Judiciary. The appearance of the president The advance plenary session of the Assembly ‘set fire’ this Tuesday and it is foreseeable that it will remain at the center of the political debate in the coming days and weeks.
What remains to be discerned is whether the institutional holiday of the Second of May will once again be marked by controversy for another year. In 2023, the event was held in the run-up to the 28-M electoral campaign and was marred by the clash between the Madrid Government and the Nation over the invitation of Minister Félix Bolaños, first, and then his presence in the authorities’ gallery during the military parade, after. But a year before, the spying on the phones of President Sánchez and other members of the Government with the Pegasus program It completely overshadowed the day.
There was also no quiet holiday in 2021 because Two days later there were regional elections and in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic prevented any celebration. This year, the Community has invited the minister responsible for Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, as representatives of the Government and both will attend the event. Bolaños, for his part, will be in Seville attending a congressas he himself confirmed.
Beyond the unforeseen events that may arise, the program prepared by the regional government contemplates that after the president’s speech the celebration will be moved to Puerta del Sol. There, it will take place at 12:30 a.m. a military civic event with the presence of the main authorities present at the Royal Post Office. During the stop, the Army’s Eagle Patrol will fly through the skies of the capital as it passes through Puerta del Sol.
Afterwards, the authorities will return inside the Government headquarters and it will be time for the traditional huddles to discuss the messages and current events. The party will continue in the streetswhere the program designed by the Ministry of Culture will continue, which includes concerts, historical recreations and plays. At 5:30 p.m. there will be a parade that will recreate the events of May 2, 1808. The procession will start from Montera Street and go down to Sol, where a brief tribute will be held to the victims of the uprising. After that, the journey will continue to the Plaza Mayor, and then end in the Plaza de Oriente, where there will be a recreation of the confrontation against the French soldiers. After this historical recreation, the OBK group is scheduled to perform in Sol at 9:00 p.m.
