Michavila presents his book supported by the PP of Aznar, Cuca Gamarra and his family: “I’m going to be a grandfather”

Jose Maria Michavila announced this Thursday that at 62 years old he is going to be a grandfather thanks to his daughter Irene, the one named after his first wife, who died in 2013. But the former Minister of Justice did not go to the Prado Museum to give that great news . The jurist presented his book entitled The Democratic Age (Sword).

Accompanied by Aznar and the rector of the Francisco de Vitoria University, the lawyer and professor of History starred in an act that was more intellectual than political, steeped in culture, and supported by his wife, the aristocrat Alexandra Salinas, some of their children, relatives, friends and colleagues. In the auditorium, filled to the brim, yesterday’s PP officials abounded, although with the prominent presence and in the front row of Cuca Gamarracurrent Secretary General and spokesperson for the party in Congress.

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Daniel Sada, rector of the Francisco de Vitoria, José María Aznar and Michavila himself spoke of humanistic liberalism against populism and totalitarian regimes. The one who was a deputy and head of Justice with Aznar between 2002 and 2004 narrates in the work his experience in the Government but also talks about his personal life, his two marriages, and his children.

They honored the former minister with their presence, businesswomen of the stature of Alicia Koplowitz, among many other personalities from the business and financial world, such as Antonio Garamendi, President of the CEOE. But also linked to culture and politics, of course, as Paloma Segrelles And your daughter, Mayor Oreja, Angel Acebes, partner of Michavila, Dolores of Cospedal, who did not stop laughing with Elizabeth Bacon, or the former president of Congress, Philip Trillo, who sat next to Rodrigo Mouse.

The former Vice President of the Government was effusively greeted by some of his former party colleagues, although others avoided crossing paths with him.

Michavila transcended his fame as a politician or jurist and passed in a certain way to the kingdom of the pink press when he had a notorious and intermittent romance with Genevieve Casanova, ex wife of Cayetano Martinez de Irujo. In 2013 he had become a widower after the death of Irene Vázquez Romero, mother of his five children. His second wife was with him this Thursday, in the front row, along with Cuca Gamarra and the youngest of Michavila’s children. Alejandra Salinas Harden, niece of Mercedes Milá, met her husband at a solidarity concert in the church of San Andrés in Madrid, they dated for three years, lived together and got married. They have five children from Michavila and two from Alejandra.

The former minister Among his friends, he counts characters such as Shakira, Alejandro Sanz o Emilio Butragueno, It also refers to those celebrities. In 2007 she founded together with the ex of Gerard Piqué, the author of Broken heart, Miguel Bose, Juanes and a large group of Latin American artists, the Foundation for Aid to Children in Latin America.

“The truth is that I felt, like many of us, well governed by José María Aznar as Prime Minister”, Michavila said in the presentation with his former boss. “I was one of the first to give him a hug after ETA wanted to kill him, with my shirt stained with soot,” he recalled.

Grandfather and ‘father’ of seven children

“I’m going to be Irene’s grandfather, my eldest daughter, and Ramón, her husband. But I have an eight-year-old boy, Juanito, who has a mother in heaven and he knows that his mother works in heaven but that he has another mother who is Alejandra. That makes me have a life that has made me a bit of a mother these years. I tell it here, the WhatsApp of the mother of the three children at school makes you understand life with a different sensitivity. Women have a very different way of approaching reality, problems, which I tell about in the book, “she commented.