The PSOE city planner Antonio Giraldo, at 30, would be the youngest councilor of the brand new Madrid City Council Corporation, wherein the neighborhood activist Félix López-Rey, at 74, from Más Madrid, would be the oldest. Both will occupy the Age Table subsequent Saturday June 17 on the investiture plenary session wherein José Luis Martínez-Almeida will as soon as once more take over the baton.
The Constitution of the previous Board initiates the Plenary session to configure the brand new Town Hall. It is the president of the Board of Age who declares that the Corporation has been constituted with the quorum of absolutely the authorized majority of the elected councilors. Next, from the seat itself, the councilors swear or promise their place.
Félix López-Rey identified within the 28M electoral marketing campaign that for him it was going to be the final candidacy to which he offered himself. About to show 75, he’ll achieve this on June 19, the quantity two on Rita Maestre’s listing faces his second time period with Más Madrid, however the Madrid City Council is an previous acquaintance for him.
As a member of the PCE, he offered himself as a candidate for the IU within the municipal elections of 1987 and managed to change into a councilor. He once more obtained the act of mayor within the municipal elections of 1991.
Saying Félix López-Rey is like saying Orcasitas, the Usera neighborhood the place he has lived for the reason that late Nineteen Fifties and the place he based the neighborhood affiliation within the Seventies. As a citizen chief, he was additionally one of many founders of the Madrid Regional Federation of Neighbors (FRAVM).
Antonio Giraldo, from Valladolid, is a geographer graduated from the University of Valladolid and Urban Planner from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). Currently, he’s the coordinator of the Sustainability space of the Federal Executive Commission of the Socialists.
The man who would be the youngest councilor of the Madrid City Council considers it “an honor” to be a part of the Age Table and share it with Félix López-Rey.
Giraldo’s Twitter threads are well-known wherein he spreads about city planning, historical past, mobility, structure and sustainable cities. In addition, he ceaselessly contributes to publications, the media, and occasions.
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