Enrique Ossorio is elected president of the Madrid Assembly
The regional vice president and interim minister of education, Enrique Ossorio (PP), was elected this Tuesday as the new president of the Madrid Assembly, which is why he will take over from María Eugenia Carballedo, who, for the time being, will take over the minutes as deputy common
Ossorio was elected this Tuesday in the constitution session of the XIII legislature of the autonomous Parliament, the first to be launched after the elections of May 28, in a session in which 135 new deputies will take office, one less than the one due to the reduction of the census in the Community of Madrid.
The new president of the Assembly had the support of all the deputies of the PP (70), while 27 votes went to the deputy of Más Madrid Esther Rodríguez, the 27 deputies of the PSOE voted blank and the 11 of Vox, to the deputy Ignacio Arias.
Thus, Ossorio became the second authority in the Community of Madrid, behind the regional president, controlling the Chamber, gaining a position that recognizes his political career.
Ossorio (Badajoz, 1959) has spent more than 25 years holding various positions in all the recent regional governments of the PP in Madrid, from Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón through Esperanza Aguirre, Ignacio González, Cristina Cifuentes and now with Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Before being appointed education minister in 2019, he had always been involved in local finance and tax collection. He was Deputy Minister of Finance and Deputy Minister of Economy for ten years and, subsequently, Minister of Economy and Finance from 2012 to 2015, to then be spokesman of the PP in the Assembly during the Cifuentes period in the Madrid presidency. At this stage, precisely in 2016, he was accused of workplace harassment by a popular deputy, but the complaint was finally closed.
In the national political sphere, Ossorio was Secretary General of the Financial Coordination with the Autonomous Communities and with Local Authorities at the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration (2011-2012); and deputy director of the Organization, Planning and Institutional Relations Department of the State Financial Administration Agency (1998-2000). (Eph)