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Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the new hope of Spain’s right
Where will Madrid’s leader go next?
|MADRID
WHEN OWNERS of cafés and bars in Madrid wanted to honour the regional boss, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, after the hardest months of the pandemic were over, several offered dishes a lo Ayuso, con dos huevos, or with two eggs; a reference to the expression’s other meaning: “with a pair of balls”.
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Europe October 23rd 2021
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- A small-town mayor takes on Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban
- Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the new hope of Spain’s right
- Olaf Scholz’s “traffic-light” coalition is taking shape
- Europe is in a muddle over ritual slaughter
- In the EU, every leader becomes a monarch
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