With three different mayors and in the last three legislatures, the battle for the Madrid City Council is more even than that of the Community as there are several polls that draw a relative tie between the blocks of the left and the right after a legislature marked by the pandemic and the engulfment that the PP has practiced on Cs, its coalition partner.
These are elections where the polls agree to set the number of formations with options to obtain parliamentary representation at five, so the last place, which Podemos and Ciudadanos seem to be playing for, could be basic to tip the balance on one side or the other. other.
People’s Party. Pablo Casado’s personal bet for the 2019 municipal elections, José Luis MartÃnez-Almeida is running for the 28M elections with another leader in the party and having overcome the crises of the alleged espionage of the regional president, Isabel DÃaz Ayuso, and the scam to the Consistory in the purchase and sale of sanitary material by businessmen Medina and Luceño.
State lawyer and declared mattress maker, he could once again raise the command baton of the capital at the age of 48. The polls are favorable to him and he goes to the polls surrounded by a list in which his faithful share space with Community councilors such as Marta Rivera de la Cruz or David Pérez.
However, the role he played as a member of the national executive chaired by Casado in the espionage plot against Isabel DÃaz Ayuso, as well as the blow of the masks for which two commission agents pocketed six million euros in the sale of medical supplies During the pandemic, they have weighed down the councilor for months to the point that he has come to lose the autonomy he longed for to make his lists without having to agree on them with the president of the Community.
More Madrid. Rita Maestre takes the lead in the Más Madrid Ciudad candidacy with the support of the former mayor of the capital, Manuela Carmena. Although the former judge assured that she is not with any specific progressive option and yes with all of them, the truth is that in a pre-campaign act for Más Madrid she conveyed her wish that “hopefully Rita (Maestre) will be the next mayoress” of the city ” .
With a difference of one councilor, according to some surveys, between the progressive bloc led by Maestre and the one led by José Luis MartÃnez-Almeida, the current head of the opposition and former spokesperson for the City Council in the previous legislature is running for the elections speaking of and for Madrid and focused on “the revolution of little things” at the head of an eminently female list of professionals, experts and activists aged between 23 and 75 years.
citizens. Begoña VillacÃs enters the electoral race aware of the challenge she faces for the survival of the party as a whole. Convinced that the oranges in Madrid will avoid the irremediable disappearance that they are suffering in many territories, she VillacÃs aspires to be key to the formation of a government.
He landed in politics in 2015, achieving 7 councilors and 186,000 votes. In 2019, she improved her results with 11 councilors and 311,000 votes, and she was named vice mayor. Her achievements in her City Council have been marred by the flight of several councilors from her team as a result of speculation about her approach to the PP, an extreme that she denies. The 28M will be key to the continuity of the liberal party in the Madrid and national political spectrum.
The PSOE has opted again for a “paratrooper” for Cibeles, this time the former Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto. With the promise of deploying a ten-year continuity project, the ex-minister has promised to lead the municipal PSOE to provide it with the stability it has lacked in recent years, in which the position of spokesperson has been handed over to her since 2015 Jaime Lissavetzky, Antonio Miguel Carmona, Purificación Causapié, Pepu Hernández and, more recently, Mar Espinar.
Maroto has formed a list headed by three women, with young profiles and focused on management capacity in search of reactivating the illusion of his electorate, who since 2015 ceased to be the leader of the opposition in the capital.
Vox. Javier Ortega Smith repeats as a candidate for Mayor after a legislature in which his relationship with the MartÃnez-Almeida Executive has gone through various confrontations over issues such as mobility or, more recently, urban regulations. The Vox group has gone from investiture partner to declared enemy of the PP in the last four years to the point of torpedoing the last two municipal budgets of Mayor Almeida.
A Madrid lawyer with a Spanish father and an Argentine mother, he seeks to improve the results of 2015, in which Vox entered with four representatives in Cibeles, and has made the repeal of traffic restrictions or the fight against squatting some of his banners.
Recover Madrid. Luis Cueto presented in the last ordinary plenary session of the mandate, the 8,000 signatures necessary to attend the municipal elections as a group of voters in response to the “damaged merchandise of the partitocracy”.
Moving away from that “protective left of the helpless”, Cueto puts himself in charge of proposals that bring them closer to “the best of the left and the best of the right”.
Can. Former 1,500-meter sprint athlete Roberto Sotomayor arrives at the electoral contest clad in his training tights because, as his campaign slogan says, “Madrid must be fixed by running.” Podemos will run for the first time in the elections in the capital with its own ballot and it does so with promises that go through regulating the price of housing or promoting public transport, measures that stand up to “that Madrid with a posh showcase” that he relates to Almeida .
His first measure in Cibeles would be to “close the Valdemingómez incinerator.” Sotomayor, supported for months in different events by the general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra, appears at 28M distancing himself from the Pacts of the Villa, proposed by Más Madrid, and reproaching the candidacy of Rita Maestre for not wanting to sit down with the ‘purples’, a political party that defends “unity to win”.
