The Community of Madrid is one of the territories that is holding regional and municipal elections this May 28 despite the fact that less than two years ago the people of Madrid had to go to the polls due to the electoral advance decreed by the PP after breaking their coalition with previous with Cs.
This is an election in which only one of the main candidates is a man, three of the female candidates are at the top of their respective ballots, and the right and left blocks each have three parties in contention. Here we detail who is who in the transcendental struggle for the presidency of Puerta del Sol.
Isabel DÃaz Ayuso faces a double challenge on 28M: reaching an absolute majority in the Community of Madrid and achieving, already as president of the regional PP, ‘dye blue’ as many municipalities in the region.
After leaving behind the internal battle that confronted her with the popular former president Pablo Casado, Ayuso launches with “will” for her third electoral campaign with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, at the focus of all her criticism and with Alfonso Serrano and Enrique Ossorio as faithful squires.
After beating the PSOE in the last elections, Más Madrid once again bets on Mónica GarcÃa, a doctor and anesthesiologist, for the regional elections of 28M. She will go to the polls surrounded by her team of deputies for the last two years and with signings such as the trans activist Carla Antonelli or the computer engineer and Saharawi activist Tesh Sidi.
GarcÃa once again focuses his speech for the 28M on health and public services in the region. Also, he focuses his campaign on housing and the importance of having a regional park to meet the needs, especially those of the youngest.
In the case of the PSOE, in the Community of Madrid the party has elected its general secretary, Juan Lobato. He has been a member of the PSOE since he was 18 years old and assures that he has always liked short distances a lot, which led him to be mayor of Soto del Real for six years.
Although people say that they don’t know “neither Perry, nor the tato” and that they don’t “put a face on him”, he assures that he will give it to all Madrid residents with public policies on equality, health and education.
RocÃo Monasterio repeats as a Vox candidate in what will be her third elections at the head of the Vox list for 28M and with the double challenge of following the upward trajectory of this formation in the Assembly and preventing an absolute majority of the PP from allowing DÃaz Ayuso dispense with his support.
An architect specializing in Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and the Environment, she has focused her campaign on “listening to the neighbourhoods” and has focused on matters such as citizen security or lower taxes.
Podemos has chosen its spokesperson in the Madrid Assembly as a candidate, Alejandra Jacinto. With a degree in Law and Political Science, she has practiced law for almost 10 years and has defended, together with the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), “the interests of the majority against” bank abuses and real estate speculation.
For this reason, one of the commitments of his government program is the creation of a Madrid public real estate company to guarantee the right to housing.
citizens. After a short two-year legislature outside the Madrid Assembly, Ciudadanos has entrusted the challenge of recovering its presence in the regional Chamber and maintaining territorial weight in Araceli Gómez GarcÃa, known as Aruca Gómez, with an extensive professional career as ‘coaching ‘ in political and executive leadership that will help him to face a challenge that, a priori, is presumed to be complex.
Despite having experience in local politics (he was a councilor in Tres Cantos for PP, APTC and Ciudadanos) and as a deputy in the Assembly, he is one of the most unknown faces of the electoral campaign. She is a specialist in Neurolonguistic Programming and Neurocommunication, she is optimistic by nature and radiates energy and believes the message she transmits, to be “decisive” in order to “change the world”.
