Yesterday the municipal and regional elections were held in our country on a historic day in which citizen participation rose. The candidates were risking the future of their parties after one of the toughest electoral campaigns in recent years.
Once the results began to be known, it was possible to see how the whole country followed the same formula and how millions of people in Spain decided to vote for the right. The Popular Party and VOX benefited in the vast majority of municipalities and autonomous communities where they appeared.
Despite the joy and the rise of Vox, a party that has improved its data and presence overwhelmingly in a large number of territories, the Popular Party is the great winner of these last elections, since they have consecrated many of their absolute majorities.
In one of the places where the right won without problems was in Madrid, where, despite the controversies, the PP swept away the other parties. In the community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso won 71 seats (she needed 68 for an absolute majority) and in the City Council, José Luis Martínez Almeida also surpassed his political opponents, obtaining 29 councilors, three more than he needed to govern alone.
During yesterday's session we could also see how the candidates themselves traveled to the different polling stations where they were registered and carried out their votes surrounded by cameras, media and expectation.
In the case of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the president of the Community of Madrid exercised her right to vote surrounded by her family in an atmosphere of happiness and celebration, but also nerves. One of the things that most caught the attention of this moment is that the politician attended the vote with a red jacket rolled up, exposing the tattoo that she has on her left forearm.
Many Internet users began to comment on whether the symbol represented a rose with wings, a flying broomstick, or what exactly the popular leader had inked on her skin.
Many people on the net joked that it was the flower of the PSOE logo, the enemy party that Ayuso represents, but nothing could be further from the truth, since politics has explained on several occasions what it means.
As he told in an interview with Vanitatis, it is a tribute to one of the favorite music groups, Depeche Mode. The rose that she has tattooed is the cover image of the Violator album, designed by the Dutch photographer and director Anton Corbijn.
"I liked the group a lot and it reminds me of my summer time, my adolescence, my friends," he said in the interview that the Madrid politician gave to the aforementioned medium.
