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The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, reaffirmed this Friday the pride of being Spanish «from the Puerta del Sol that knows everything and has seen so many people fight for freedom, universal geniuses, and thousands of anonymous brave individuals.»
The head of the regional government presided over, for the first time in the Puerta del Sol of the capital, the ceremony of the Grand Crosses of the Second of May, where she defended the need for the Spanish version of seeing life, «the one that shines and amazes in Madrid, with all its accents.»
«The feats of the Spaniards throughout centuries of history speak for themselves: we are efficient, imaginative, brave, and always human. We always feel the eyes of our mothers and grandmothers watching us from somewhere, reminding us of who raised us,» she emphasized. Precisely for this reason, she added, «no one imprisons us, extinguishes us, or exposes us to the world. And we will never be cruel, selfish, indifferent, or cowardly.»
Ayuso: «The people of Madrid continue to be great and vibrant; they demonstrated this a few days ago during the shameful power outage»
For the regional president, the people of Madrid are hardworking «as much as anyone else», but «never forgetting the joy of living, those around them, those who will come, and that life always means something more.» In this sense, she encouraged anyone who doubts that Spain is like this to «come to Madrid and listen to this same way of seeing life in all its forms through its streets.»
Ayuso highlighted that «everything that happens in Madrid resonates throughout Spain, Latin America, and the world, just as it did on the 2nd and 3rd of May, 1808,» and recalled that «this has been happening since Philip II made Madrid the capital of the Nation.»
Díaz Ayuso: “I know that the Armed Forces will return to the 2nd of May. In Madrid, the Army is loved and admired”
«On the 2nd of May, 1808, we once again became the engine of Spain and Europe, which was being invaded by a France that surprised and frightened in equal measure. We showed that Napoleon was not invincible. That the united people could do anything, as it had always been in this Roman Hispania, Visigoth, and committed for eight centuries to being European, Western. And as we continue to demonstrate years later,» Ayuso concluded.
