Ayuso leaves the attic in Chamberí that she shared with González Amador and moves to Puerta de Hierro.

According to the Statute of Autonomy of the Community of Madrid (Organic Law 3/1983, of February 25, partially amended by Organic Laws 2/1991, 10/1994, and 5/1998), the Presidency of the Community of Madrid — a position currently held by a female president — is the cornerstone of the autonomous executive power. The Statute distributes its competencies in several provisions: one defines its basic functions and institutional position; others regulate its election and investiture, the vote of confidence, the motion of censure, and the power to dissolve the Assembly. Below is a summary of these functions, based on the located statutory excerpts.

1. Institutional representation and government leadership

The statutory provision expressly dedicated to the President of the Community of Madrid, as it stands after the reform of Organic Law 5/1998, establishes three core ideas:

• Supreme representation of the Autonomous Community: the President holds the supreme representation of the Community of Madrid. They are the highest political authority of the Community before its own institutions, other autonomous communities, local entities, and the Madrid society in general.
• Ordinary representation of the State in the Community: the same provision attributes to them the ordinary representation of the State in the Madrid territory. This means that, without being a state organ, they act as the main territorial interlocutor of the National Government and channel the political-institutional relations between both levels.
• Headship and leadership of the autonomous government: the President “presides over and directs the activity of the Government” of the Community. They are responsible for setting the major political orientations, coordinating the action of the different departments, and ensuring the unity of the government line.

Additionally, the Statute states that the President appoints and dismisses the Vice Presidents and Councillors and coordinates the autonomous Administration. That is, they are ultimately responsible for the composition of the Government and the coherent functioning of the entire Administration of the Community of Madrid.

The same provision indicates that the President may delegate executive and representation functions to the Vice Presidents and other members of the Government, and specifies that they are politically accountable before the Assembly, which directly connects with parliamentary mechanisms of confidence and control.

2. Election and investiture

Another article of the Statute regulates the election and investiture of the President:

• After each renewal of the Assembly or when a vacancy occurs, the President of the Assembly, after consulting the groups, proposes one of the deputies as a candidate for the Presidency of the Community.
• The candidate presents their Government program and requests the confidence of the Assembly.
• If they obtain an absolute majority in the first vote, the King appoints them President. If not, a second vote is held forty-eight hours later, in which a simple majority suffices.
• If no candidacy obtains confidence within a period of two months from the first vote, the Assembly is dissolved and new elections are called; the new Assembly’s mandate is limited to the natural end of the original legislature.

In this way, the Presidency is legitimized directly through parliamentary confidence, which strengthens its political responsibility.

3. Vote of confidence and political responsibility

The Statute also regulates the presidential power to resort to the vote of confidence:

• The President, after deliberation of the Government, may submit to the Assembly a vote of confidence on their program or on a general policy statement.
• Confidence is considered granted if a simple majority of deputies vote in favor.
• If the Assembly denies confidence, the President must resign, and the President of the Assembly must convene a plenary session within a maximum of fifteen days to elect a new President according to the investiture procedure.

In parallel, the Assembly may demand the political responsibility of the President and the Government through a motion of censure, which must be approved by an absolute majority and includes an alternative candidate. If it succeeds, the President ceases and the candidate of the motion is understood to be invested, becoming the President of the Community.

4. Dissolution of the Assembly and calling of elections

A specific provision grants the President a highly relevant power: the early dissolution of the Assembly. According to the Statute, the President, after deliberation of the Government and under their exclusive responsibility, may agree to dissolve it before the natural end of the legislature, formalizing it by decree that simultaneously calls elections.

However, the Statute sets clear limits:

• They cannot dissolve during the first session period of the legislature.
• They cannot do so when less than one year remains until the end of the legislature.
• Dissolution is prohibited while a motion of censure is pending.
• Dissolution is not allowed if a state electoral process is underway.
• At least one year must elapse between one dissolution and the next.

The newly elected Assembly has, in any case, a mandate limited to the end of the original legislature, reinforcing the logic of institutional stability.

5. Official sources

All these competencies and functions are collected in the Statute of Autonomy of the Community of Madrid, whose consolidated text can be consulted in the Official State Gazette through Organic Law 3/1983 and its reforms, accessible at BOE – Statute of Autonomy of Madrid, as well as in Organic Laws 2/1991, 10/1994, and 5/1998 that amend it.

With the information available in the sources I have been able to consult in this conversation, it is not possible to reconstruct in detail Isabel Díaz Ayuso's political trajectory prior to her arrival at the presidency of the Community of Madrid. The structured data and accessible news focus on her stage as autonomous president and leader of the Madrid PP, and barely systematically record the positions she held before 2019. Therefore, I can only offer a very partial summary and expressly warn of these limitations.

Available institutional data

In the consulted database of institutional and parliamentary positions, Isabel Díaz Ayuso (person_id 804) is unequivocally identified and only her most recent responsibilities are recorded, already within the stage in which she is a main figure in Madrid:

• President of the Community of Madrid: in the internal summary of the agent who consulted the database, it is explicitly indicated that Isabel Díaz Ayuso has been president of the Community of Madrid "since 2019." This data appears as a synthesis of the system itself, although the most recent technical record associated is dated 2023 in the current legislature.
• President of the PP of the Community of Madrid: the same summary states that she has been "president of the PP Community of Madrid since 2022." In the current administrative positions, she indeed appears as president of the "PP Community of Madrid," a political body of regional scope.
• Full member of the Permanent Deputation of the Assembly of Madrid: in the parliamentary field, the consulted records show that she holds the position of "Full member" in the Permanent Deputation of the Assembly of Madrid since July 13, 2023, with no end date.

These data confirm her current position as a central figure of the Popular Party in Madrid and as head of the autonomous Government, but do not provide a detailed history of the previous positions she held before leading the Community.

Absence of structured information about the period before 2019

To try to reconstruct her trajectory prior to the presidency, several avenues have been used:

• The database of administrative positions (which collects presidencies, councils, general directorates, etc.) has been specifically queried to locate functions prior to 2019. However, only her current positions as president of the Community and president of the Madrid PP appear, with no previous historical records.
• The database of parliamentary positions has been consulted based on her identifier as author/deputy. The only role returned by the system is the aforementioned one in the Permanent Deputation since 2023; no commissions or parliamentary responsibilities from previous stages are recovered.
• Searches have also been made in the table of official appointments (appointments and dismissals published in bulletins), using her name with different variants. No associated records have been found that allow identifying specific positions prior to 2019.
• Finally, the news database of the newspaper Demócrata and other web sources indexed by the search engine have been scanned. Although these news repeatedly refer to Isabel Díaz Ayuso as president of the Community of Madrid and leader of the Madrid PP, they do not include — in the retrieved corpus — detailed biographical profiles listing her party or administrative positions before 2019.

The combined result of these searches is, therefore, negative regarding her previous trajectory: the tools do not return lists of previous positions, nor chronologies of her career within the Popular Party or Madrid politics before reaching the autonomous presidency.

What can and cannot be stated about her previous trajectory

Based on these sources, the only things that can be stated with documentary support in this conversation are that:

• Isabel Díaz Ayuso has been president of the Community of Madrid since 2019.
• Since 2022, she also presides over the Popular Party of the Community of Madrid.
• In the current legislature, she is a full member of the Permanent Deputation of the Assembly of Madrid.

Any detailed reconstruction of her trajectory before 2019 — for example, whether she was a deputy in certain legislatures, held specific communication or regional government positions, or what responsibilities she had in the PP structure in previous years — would require biographical data not found in the consulted databases. Although such information may exist in other public biographies, it does not appear in the results of this investigation, and therefore it would not be rigorous to introduce it here.

If you need a detailed account of her political beginnings, the different steps she took within the Popular Party, and the institutional positions she held before 2019, the most reliable way would be to go directly to official biographies or curricula published by institutions such as the Community of Madrid itself or the Assembly of Madrid, or to interviews and specific profiles dedicated to her figure. With the information available in this conversation, however, it is not possible to go beyond the general data presented.

To sign a housing rental contract in the Community of Madrid, the state urban lease regulations and the autonomous rules on deposit of the security deposit mainly apply. Below is a practical summary of the key legal requirements that must be met at the time of signing, both by the landlord and the tenant.

1. Applicable regulatory framework

• Law 29/1994, on Urban Leases (LAU) (text in BOE): regulates the lease contract of housing intended to satisfy the tenant's permanent housing need (art. 2), and sets most of the formal requirements, duration, rent, and deposit.
• Royal Decree-Law 7/2019, of March 1 (BOE-A-2019-3108): introduces important reforms in the LAU (minimum duration, deposit, additional guarantees, rent updates, etc.).
• Law 12/2023, of May 24, on the right to housing (BOE-A-2023-12203): strengthens tenant protection and again modifies the LAU in aspects such as extraordinary extensions and rent limitation in tense residential market areas.
• Law 12/1997, of June 4, on the Deposit of Rental Deposits of the Community of Madrid (BOE-A-1998-7942): regulates the obligation to deposit the security deposit before the autonomous Administration, as well as inspection and sanctioning regime in Madrid.

2. Form and minimum content of the contract

• The LAU allows verbal leases, but the parties may mutually compel each other to formalize the contract in writing; the document must include at least the identity of the parties, the identification of the property, the agreed duration, the initial rent, and other agreed clauses (LAU, art. 37, according to the transcribed text).
• The contract must make clear that it is a lease of habitual residence (art. 2 LAU) and not for a different use (temporary, tourist, business premises, etc.), because the legal regime and protections change.
• Cases expressly excluded by the LAU itself must be excluded (military housing, specific university housing, tourist use assignment with its own sectoral regulation, etc., according to art. 5 LAU transcribed).

3. Contract duration and extensions

• The initial duration is set by free agreement, but for habitual residence the LAU establishes a minimum duration through mandatory extensions: in the current wording (amended by RDL 7/2019 and Law 12/2023), the tenant may maintain the contract up to the legal minimum terms if they wish to continue and the landlord does not allege the specified necessity causes.
• After that minimum period, a tacit extension operates for additional annual periods, with time limits, unless the tenant communicates that they do not want to renew (art. 10 LAU, according to the transcribed fragment mentioning extraordinary extensions).
• Law 12/2023 allows, in tense residential market areas, that the tenant requests an extraordinary extension up to three years, which the landlord must accept except in specific cases (art. 10 LAU amended, fragment included in the tool).

4. Rent, payments, and updates

• The initial rent is freely set (art. 17.1 LAU, reproduced text), but:
  • Payment is, unless otherwise agreed, monthly and must be made within the first seven days of the month.
  • The landlord cannot demand advance payment of more than one month's rent (art. 17.2 LAU).
• The payment method will generally be electronic; exceptionally it may be in cash if any party lacks access to such means (art. 17.3 LAU).
• The landlord is obliged to deliver a receipt for the payment or an equivalent proof detailing rent and other concepts separately (art. 17.4 LAU).
• The annual rent update only applies if agreed and is subject to the limits and indices provided by the LAU and, if applicable, by Law 12/2023, especially in tense areas (art. 18 LAU, amended by said law).

5. Deposit and additional guarantees

• The provision of a cash deposit at contract signing is mandatory:
  • One month's rent in housing leases (art. 36.1 LAU, transcribed).
• During the first years of the contract, the deposit is not updated; upon contract extension, it may be adjusted to again equal one month's rent at the current rate (arts. 36.2 and 36.3 LAU).
• At the end of the lease, the deposit balance to be returned accrues legal interest if the landlord delays more than one month in returning it from the delivery of keys (art. 36.4 LAU).
• Additional guarantees (guarantee, extra deposits, etc.) may be agreed, but in habitual residence their value cannot exceed two months' rent, in addition to the deposit (art. 36.5 LAU).

6. Deposit of the security deposit in the Community of Madrid

• Law 12/1997 of the Community of Madrid establishes the obligation to deposit the security deposit of lease contracts of urban properties located in the region before the autonomous Administration (historically the Madrid Housing Institute).
• The regulation details the inspection and sanctioning powers of the Community of Madrid over landlords who:
  • Do not demand the mandatory deposit.
  • Do not deposit it or do so for a lower amount.
  • Obstruct the inspection work.
• These infractions may be minor or serious, and are sanctioned with fines proportional to the amount not deposited or with fixed amounts, in addition to surcharges and possible coercive fines (arts. 8 to 11 of Law 12/1997, according to the transcribed passages).

7. Consumer protection and prior information

Law 12/2023 and the LAU strengthen the tenant's position as the weaker party in the contract, especially when dealing with large holders and tense areas: limits on rent and its update are foreseen, as well as mechanisms for extraordinary extension at the tenant's request, to guarantee residential stability. All this integrates with the general consumer and user regulations, which require transparency in economic and contractual conditions from before signing.

In practice, to sign a rental in Madrid it is essential to: draft a clear written contract adjusted to the LAU, agree on a rent and duration respecting its minimums, demand and deliver the legal deposit (and deposit it in the competent autonomous body), and document in writing any additional guarantee or special condition.