Aguirre in Palma to support Bauza

The president of the Partido Popular in Madrid and the party’s candidate for mayor, Esperanza Aguirre, will take part on Sunday in an election rally in Palma for President Bauza. Aguirre met Bauza in Madrid a few days ago for talks on tourism, both of them emerging from their discussions to call for a lowering of airport taxes for low-cost airlines which they described as currently being “exhorbitant”.
Aguirre, who resigned as the president of the Madrid Community in September 2012, citing health reasons, has been canvassing views and opinions of and demands made by citizens in her home city with the aid of an inflatable sofa (people can sit on it and talk to her). The sofa has been pressed into service in many parts of Madrid and it is expected that it will accompany Aguirre on her trip to Majorca, as will another leading figure in the PP, Maria San Gil. President Bauza may well also get to sit on the sofa.
Aguirre is one of the PP’s major personalities. In addition to her former post as president, she was the president of the Senate from 1999 to 2002 and the national Minister for Education and Culture in the Jose Maria Aznar government from 1996 to 1999, having first entered politics as a councillor at Madrid T own Hall in 1983. Despite her health problems, within a month of resigning, she became an adviser to the secretary-of-state for tourism.