"May our streets and balconies be decorated with the colors of the national flag, a symbol that unites all Spaniards," read the last municipal order dictated by the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida. And so it has been. At least in the center of the capital. More than 20,000 flags of all sizes, posters hanging from street furniture, flowers, and vinyl buses remind residents and tourists that Madrid will host the swearing-in of the Constitution before the Cortes Generales of Princess Leonor on October 31.
An impressive display that the City Council has not yet wanted to quantify and that, given what has been seen, will take time to be public: "I am indifferent" about the money it costs, Almeida has summarized in the last few hours. "The only thing I can say is that we are going to experience a historical event and that Madrid has to live up to this event and this commemoration."
Despite criticism from the opposition whose leader, Rita Maestre (Más Madrid), considers "a splendor more typical of another era" within the "overacting" of the mayor, and that Reyes Maroto (PSOE) demands to "oversight" as is done With "any other act", Almeida has highlighted the "opportunity" offered to the city to demonstrate once again its "loyalty and adherence to the monarchy, embodied in Felipe VI, and to its continuity, embodied in Princess Leonor."
And he calls it "stingy, but expressive" of the situation on the left that, instead of celebrating this fact, they ask how much it is going to cost. "The same ones who do not ask Bildu for an account but rather make an agreement with them, and the same ones who do not ask Carles Puigdemont for an account but rather amnesty him and forgive him for the embezzlement of public funds, are the ones who ask the City Council for an account about the cost of celebrating the oath of Princess Leonor".
Those from Madrid who wish to celebrate the event can also do so by tasting a sweet made by the Association of Artisan Entrepreneurs of the Pastry Sector of Madrid. It is a dessert of almond sponge cake or Russian cake, with an orange pastry cream, with semi-whipped cream, almond powder, egg whites, liqueur, gelatin covered with an edible pastillage with the colors of the Spanish flag that It will be distributed in personalized portions with a commemorative box of the event celebration.
