The new PP spokesman in Congress does not deceive. It is what it seems. As she said Thursday in an interview, Ester Muñoz of the Church (León, 1985) is “clear.” Transparent, rather. And it is because it has always been like this: conscientious, direct, easily of word and good memory for very ideological and hard speeches. Very hard. It was so before entering professional policy. In 2009 he received a prize of Denaes for his defense of Spanish and against the official use of the other Spanish languages. The president of that foundation (to defend the Spanish nation) said “excited” when he gave the award. It was Santiago Abascal. 16 years later, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has put her on the vanguard first line for the final fight against Pedro Sánchez.
The replica that Muñoz gave in the sixth interview is a sample of the style that the PP leader wants to print in his final assault on the Moncloa Palace. Asked about her hardness, she replied: “I define myself as clear.” “Tellado and I are clear in front of a government surrounded by corruption and a Sanchez that has introduced corruption into the government,” he added. And went to the attack: “No one talks about hardness and moderation (referred to) the left.”
That “clarity”, or as you want to define, is a mark of the house. Since adolescence the policy was already bullish for its veins. He joined the PP, and his new generations, as soon as he turned 18. Before he could not because his parents, a family doctor and a businessman from the south of the province of León, did not allow it. And she obeyed.
“We are all of the same ideology, but there are discrepancies. And deep,” he said about his family In an interview precisely on account of the award he received from the Foundation for the Defense of the Spanish Nation.
On YouTube, the speeches that allowed him to win the I National Award for the 'Gabriel Cisneros' Oratory. In the first, for pre -selection, he spoke of “Muslim invasion” in 711, and how the “national feeling rooted in Christian peoples” led “one of the greatest deeds in European history and man,” the reconquest.
In the second, already in front of a compound jury, among other men, by Eduardo Zaplana, Nicolás Redondo (son) or Gustavo Bueno, said that the language “Spanish, in its historical pilgrimage, has taken human and civil rights to many men worldwide.” “We can't be afraid to speak in Spanish,” he harangued. “Children cannot play shouting in Spanish, entrepreneurs cannot sell in Spanish, doctors will only attend to patients in that demanded language and those convicted can only listen to their penalty in a different language than their crime thought,” he added, to compare non -Spanish nationalists in “ideologies of not very distant times” by which “heinous crimes were committed” even although there was “a constitution.” He concluded with an allegation: “Universal Quijotes, we carry the Spanish by flag.”
He took the prize. When he picked it up, he said he wanted to put his preparation at the service of Spain. “You are hope,” Abascal replied. Three years later, Feijóo has chosen it precisely to plug Vox and avoid having to assume a coalition government with the ultra leader of vice president.
In 2009 Ester Muñoz added 24 years but already had tables. He fogged together with other candidates for politicians in debates such as those organized by the University Radio of León. There were several of the current leaders of the province. Muñoz is the one who has come in his career.
Bachelor of Law between A Coruña y León, and Master in International Law at the University of Murcia, Muñoz accumulated a certain professional baggage as a lawyer prior to his entry into politics. But he had not turned 30 when he first stepped on the national headquarters of the PP, in Madrid's street of Genoa. Between 2012 and 2016 he was in the Cabinet of Carlos Floriano, first, and Fernando Martínez Maíllo, when both directed the organization of the party in the time of Mariano Rajoy.
In 2016 Muñoz integrated the electoral lists into the Senate through the constituency of León. He was in the Upper House until April 2019. He had to settle for number 2 on the lists imposed by the direction of Pablo Casado, with whom he agreed in Genoa. Both are attributed a bad relationship that she has always tried to deny. Those who were there know that they never got along.
Senate, first state test
Muñoz quickly spun in the Senate with speeches with unusual audiences in the Upper House. He also took the first great headlines, not precisely positive, because of the controversy that caused his words about historical memory. “15 million so that you unleash some bones,” he snapped at the then Minister of Justice, Dolores Delgado.
Muñoz ended up apologizing and claimed that he was referring to the exhumation of the dictator Francisco Franco. He said “bones” when “mummy.” Then he explained that he had mediated with The controversial prior of the Coldgamuros ValleySantiago Cantera, to let the remains of retaliated buried there and were claimed by their families. In the upper house he learned the parliamentary task. Together with the Leonese senator Luis Aznar participated in the investigation commission that bought the bulos on the false illegal financing of Podemos to cover the PP.
No charge in the Senate, in 2019 he tried to stay in the team of José Luis Martínez Almeida at the Madrid City Council, but finally joined as a trusted advisor of the president of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco. There he remained until in 2021 she was appointed delegate of the Junta de Castilla y León in her native province.
Leon return
In León it is where Esther Muñoz has shone most, they coincide related and critical. Until now. The position he assumed is usually of management, but Muñoz gave him a political patina of defense of the actions of the Mañueco government In a territory that is quite hostile to the PP. Then he was in the Mañueco campaign team in February 2022, when the PP was about to lose one of the governments that has controlled the most years.
Ester Muñoz has been one of the few names of the PP of León who has agreed on the figure of the murdered Isabel Carrasco, her own predecessor in two of her main positions, that of the territorial delegate of the Board in León and of the provincial president. Carrasco was killed in 2014 in a case that meant the sentence to three women for the events.
The rest of the party, in general, has run a thick veil on the figure of Isabel Carrasco for its controversial political career and its end.
In autumn of 2022 Ester Muñoz is made with the presidency of the PP of León after an open crisis in the party after the dissemination of audios that questioned the primary process. Muñoz arrived with the endorsement of Genoaand Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, to pacify the game, although he had to survive an unusual revolt after the municipal elections of 2023, in which his party recovered a good part of the municipal power. Miguel Tellado himself had to go in person to León and threatened to expel those who did not support the official candidate. He came out with his, but at the cost of not governing the institutionwhich fell to the PSOE.
Muñoz has been a PP ram against lionsism, the movement that advocates León's departure from the current autonomy with Castile. Both in its functions as delegate of the regional government and from party. If something fears the PP of Castilla y León, and Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, it is a 'lionsist' turn that failed the previous provincial direction. Muñoz has remained firm in the Defense of the current regional framework.
2023: Return to Madrid
In León he began his vital project, but in 2023 Ester Muñoz headed the candidacy of the PP to Congress for the province and stressed in the career of San Jerónimo as deputy. She didn't know, but she was already in a selection process that started Tellado.
The Galician toured all of Spain as Deputy Secretary of Organization during the first months of Feijóo in Madrid. He met Muñoz and pointed it in his book of future signings.
It happened in 2023. Feijóo called her to her office, spoke with her and returned to her cubicle without knowing what was happening. Shortly after she was appointed Deputy Secretary of Education and Health without leaving the presidency of the PP of León. His critics then ambitioned a change, but the lack of agreement in the name of the succession wreck all the attempts.
The PP will have to decide now what it does with León, an always complicated place to manage for its specificities. For now, yes, everything is loas and congratulations to Muñoz for his new responsibilities in Madrid.
Muñoz arrived in Genoa as part of the renewal of the Feijóo dome in 2023 with Ana Alós and Paloma Marathon (which will leave the Management Committee in the Congress of the weekend) and Noelia Núñez.
Of the four is the one that has achieved the most projection. His direct style, his fame as a worker and the quality of the “papers” that he prepares for his bosses, according to different sources of the PP, have led to an overwhelming ascent.
His fire test came in a parliamentary debate with the then third vice president, Teresa Ribera, on account of the tragedy of the Dana de Valencia that caused 228 dead in October 2024. The speech he read passed the prior control of the group's direction, already in the hands of Tellado. They recommended more hardness even against Ribera, who was playing to be appointed vice president of the European Commission. She asked for confidence and, according to her teammates, she was embroidered. He had to like him a lot because he is still the fixed tweet he has in his account.
In the parliamentary group his solvency and his speed in the replicas surprised. Those who know her in the PP remember that in her time in León she had to preside over several Cecopis against forest fires. “You know what you are talking about,” they point out.
In one INTERVIEW IN 2023 WITH ILEONMuñoz responded about his political aspirations: “How many things have not happened in politics in a week? As to look in the medium term, but if things change suddenly in 15 days, so what you have to do is work in today and now, so that when the elections arrive they have caught us with the work done.”
The unexpected happened last Monday. Feijóo called her to her office and communicated her new task. His idea is to bet on “continuity” and maintain, more or less, the team that inherits tellado. “He does not do things halfway, he does things well,” say those who know her. That “good” implies fulfilling the task entrusted. And now he has the mission of plugging any leakage of votes towards Vox.
16 years later, Muñoz and Abascal will share debates again. The Vox leader has always had very good relations with part of the PP Leonese, even hosting him in the founding process of the PP himself. It is about to see if, as the ultra leader said then, the Leonese is still for him “a hope” or is a rival for the same voter.
