Greeting the pontiff within the Apostolic Palace of the Holy See, Francis commented: “Ah, the inheritor of the nice Manuela”, referring to the predecessor within the municipal workplace, Manuela Carmena, mayor of Más Madrid from 2015 to 2019.
Given the remark, Martínez-Almeida has appeared the opposite method, shocked by the phrases of the pontiff.
Manuela Carmena, along with the mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colau, visited the Pope in February 2019. With him they mentioned, amongst different points, the disaster of refugees arriving in Europe.
Carmena wouldn’t overlook that assembly. “Francisco is the one chief who condemns our inhumanity in direction of migrants, he was my principal help to proceed supporting the reception of refugees,” she stated about that go to.
In the viewers held this Saturday on the event of the IV Centenary of the Canonization of San Isidro Labrador, patron saint of town of Madrid, the Madrid president, Isabel Día Ayuso, the federal government delegate in Madrid, Mercedes González, and Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid, Carlos Osoro.
Almeida offers t-shirts to the Pope