“Are eight years enough”: Carmena solutions Álvarez de Toledo and recovers the controversial 2016 parade | Madrid News | EUROtoday

Of the hundreds of brawls and controversies that arose between the left and the best as a result of Manuela Carmena’s victory within the May 2015 municipal elections within the capital with Ahora Madrid, one was probably the most infamous and that had nothing to do with with politics, or deep down sure, like all the pieces in life. It was at Christmas that yr. The Madrid City Council needed to offer a contemporary and completely different contact to the normal Three Kings parade, during which, for instance, lots of of parades paint the face of a white man black with all that it implies and during which, for instance, additionally, Darth Vader or Dora the Explorer parades and no person says a phrase.

“My 6-year-old daughter: ‘Mom, Gaspar’s swimsuit just isn’t actual.’ I’ll by no means forgive you, Manuela Carmena. Never”. This was the successful tweet that PP leader Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo launched, in the middle of the Three Kings Parade. The then former deputy, director of the International Area of ​​FAES and one of the most critical internal voices of Mariano Rajoy’s management, was outraged by the attire worn by their majesties the Kings of the East, which someone even compared to shower curtains.

Those costumes, in the opinion of Álvarez de Toledo, were not typical of majesties who, on the other hand, usually wear the clothes of Western kings of the 18th century, with ermines, tunics and rich capes that have nothing to do with the era in which they They supposedly lived. After the factthe hashtag #NoTeLoPerdonareJamasCarmena, under whose umbrella all kinds of crazy jokes and the most hilarious and absurd memes were published. The tweet in question is still alive and has accumulated 5,000 comments, 30,000 retweets, 20,000 hearts and 587 saves.

The parade was already preceded by controversy over Carmena’s resolution to dispense with the animals – for the primary time in 18 years, the 70 geese of Palencia shepherd Miguel Espinosa didn’t parade, nor have been there camels – and the substitute of males with girls within the position. of King within the parades of some districts, however nobody noticed the mud of the costumes coming. This was even known as the cavalcades of change, since they occurred after the emergence of Podemos within the metropolis councils.

The then mayor was pressured to make clear that the City Council took traditions “very seriously” and that “great care” had been taken each within the collection of the apparel and the props as within the speeches given by Their Majesties of the East. The parade’s outfits have been designed by stylist Jorge Dutor and, as defended by the then Culture delegate, Celia Mayer, “they made reference to a child’s imagination that children really like.”

Mayer declared herself shocked that some costumes had “practically become a matter of state,” she recalled that it was an “aesthetic” and “subjective issue” and took word of the criticism, with the promise of “adapting the programming to one thing.” that aesthetically it’s extra to everybody’s liking.” And so it was. There was a lot of expectation, but Carmena’s cavalcades in the following years stuck to the script.

This Monday, in a Madrid already fully immersed in the upcoming holidays, with Christmas lights at full capacity after being switched on on Thursday, with the Naviluz bus circulating at full speed and with the Christmas metro running around on line 6 , Carmena has remembered, no one knows why, this whole matter and has asked herself on the air on X at 10:51: “Are eight years enough to forgive him?”

Among the 304 comments it had generated in just three hours, there is no response from Álvarez de Toledo, to whom the former mayor implores clemency. Eight years later, one is retired from politics and the judiciary and is dedicated to her Zapatelas solidarity project with the occasional public intervention, while the other continues in politics and is deputy spokesperson for the Popular Parliamentary Group in Congress and spokesperson in the Constitutional Commission.

One of the first to respond to the message was Ramón Espinar, former Podemos deputy, who said the little that can be said in these cases: “Hahahahahaha.” Among the comments, the majority are applause and praise. This newspaper has contacted both protagonists of this old revived controversy in case they want to make a comment on the matter, with no response at the moment.