The subterfuge that Manuela Carmena sought so as not to signify too much for any of the projects of the left has come to an end at the moment in which "the trumpets have begun to sound" and the former mayor of Madrid has certified her desire that " Rita Maestre (Más Madrid) is the next mayoress" of the city.
The former judge, who has slipped away from the press after the commotion caused by her election, has signified this way in a joint act with whoever was her municipal spokesperson to present the Más Madrid shared housing plan for the elderly.
Carmena has spoken in her first participation in the pre-campaign and weeks after she announced that she was going to support all the progressive forces that asked her to. And despite arguing that she "cares less about political acronyms" every time, she has unequivocally pointed to Maestre to ask for a vote for "good spirit, truth and efficiency." "Hopefully Rita is the next mayoress", she has sentenced herself.
The verbalization of her electoral desire has left the rest of the progressive forces to which Carmena offered her external support at the beginning of the pre-campaign to try to prevent the consolidation of the right-wing government. And, above all, to avoid having to signify between the brand that she led before her departure in 2019 (Más Madrid), the list of Carmenista councilors who split from the errejonistas (Recupera Madrid), the acronyms that supported her from outside when she was elected mayor in 2015 (Podemos) and the PSOE itself whose candidate, Reyes Maroto, has launched the networks on the former judge.
The candidate of the instrumental party Recupera Madrid, Luis Cueto, - who is also Carmena's nephew-in-law, has come out in step with what happened, exonerating the former mayor for standing for her fellow party members from whom she decided to split. And he has done so by calling it "mockery" and "shame" to "culminate" the support of the former mayor. "Some are forcing reality, beyond good education", showing that "they have no scruples".
Cueto anticipates "that possibly in the next act that he goes with Reyes Maroto he will say 'I hope Reyes Maroto is mayoress'". "And when she was at my breakfast she said 'I hope Luis Cueto is the next mayor of Madrid', that is, more of the same," he replied to the press to get out of trouble.
