The Spanish office that Ayuso created to place Cantó will remain but for the moment he has not named a substitute

The Community of Madrid will maintain the Office of El Español, an organization created by its president Isabel Díaz Ayuso at the head of which she appointed the former deputy of Ciudadanos, Toni Cantó, when he could not go on the PP electoral lists for the 4M elections. Cantó announced this Thursday that he is leaving the project after 15 months in that organization in which after his departure he remains in the hands of the Minister of Culture, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, who has said goodbye to her old party partner wishing him “all the luck of the world.” Rivera has assured that he understands his immediate departure because “a job offer arrives when it arrives” and it is not possible to “delimit the moment in which it appears.” It does not seem that there is a great hurry to fill the vacancy of a position that Opposition has always considered a prize, a beach bar where to place the actor, former deputy of C’s and UpyD and from now on television presenter. He sang, according to information published by the newspaper Público, he has signed for the television channel 7NN. “A process is opened to choose his successor,” say sources from the ministry, something that “will take a while.” Rivera herself expressed the intention of the council that the office continue beyond the person in charge. “Projects transcend people. We wish Toni all the luck in the world, like anyone who has worked in the Ministry and we continue to look forward”, assured the head of Culture. A position with a salary of 75,000 eurosThe departure of Cantó, with an annual salary of 75,000 euros, rank of general director, has served the opposition to request the immediate closure of the office. The UP spokeswoman, Carolina Alonso, has asked the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to close “the sink of public money”, according to Europa Press. “He leaves it after pocketing 75,000 euros without us knowing the functions he has performed. This office is a beach bar, we hope that Ayuso closes this sink of public money and does not take the opportunity to place his brother,” he criticized. The passage of Cantó for that position has been all “object of analysis” -the euphemism used in the Ministry- from the beginning, especially in social networks. In his department they defend that he has signed agreements not only with Culture but also with Social Services, that he has started projects such as “the recovery of words in disuse in the Community of Madrid, grammar contest, or conferences on Spanish.” Little legacy if one takes into account that President Ayuso decided to do without her presence even in the presentation of the Chair of Spanish and Hispanic University and that her presence in CAM events has been practically non-existent.