After two hectic weeks of rallies, walks through the neighborhoods and towns of the Community of Madrid and a tremendous campaign finale, the candidates for the Community of Madrid, as well as for the City Council, spend this Saturday with their families, walks and exhibitions in the capital. A day of reflection to analyze his campaign successes and setbacks. Several of them will go to the Book Fair to buy and even sign books.
The first one that has been seen this Saturday of reflection is the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and PP candidate for the Community of Madrid. The leader of the PP, who all the polls give her as the winner in the Community of Madrid, has been walking and doing sports through the controversial Santander park in the capital. It is a park in which his predecessors of the PP projected a golf course and justice, at the request of residents, knocked down the idea.
Born in the Chamberí neighborhood 44 years ago, she has a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University. She has gone from being a great unknown a short time ago to questioning each and every one of the measures approved by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. She has become one of the main critical voices of the PP.
His electoral ticket partner, the mayor of Madrid and candidate to revalidate the position, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, told the media on Thursday that he hopes to be able to "get a long sleep", and although he was not very clear about what he was going to do next , commented that it is most likely that he will share a "relaxed" and "quiet" meal with his family and friends.
"Then, yes, the nerves will be there, I have no doubt about that either," the mayor and mayor also acknowledged.
Mónica García, a doctor by profession and mother of three children, will go to the Retiro Book Fair to sign the book "Madrid, the city of 15 minutes". The rest of the day, she will dedicate it to her family. She is the regional leader of the party and the deputy spokesperson in the Madrid Community Assembly. Together with Iñigo Rejón, she left Podemos and they set up the Más Madrid party in the Community of Madrid. These last four years she has led the left opposition with a strong hand and her popularity has grown. Her program includes more than 300 measures, many of them focused on changing the health system in Madrid, one of the great problems in recent months in the region. The candidate for Mas Madrid City Council, Rita Maestre, will also attend the Book Fair, which she started yesterday, to purchase some copies.
The socialist candidate for the community of Madrid, Juan Lobato, born in Madrid in 1984 and a graduate in Law and Business Administration, will go with his wife and three children to Caixa Forum to see the exhibition 'Mammoth. The giant of the ice age' this Saturday. Lobato has worked as a Treasury technician and has been mayor of Soto del Real between 2015 and 2021. His objective is the comeback of the PSOE, since the socialist party has not governed the Community of Madrid since 1995, with Joaquín Leguina . The last message from him that he sent on the Twitter social network on Friday night was: "I want to be the president of Education."
For her part, the former minister and Socialist candidate for Mayor, Reyes Maroto, visited the Railway Museum in the morning. In the afternoon she will go to the recently inaugurated Retiro Park Book Fair, and the rest of the day she will dedicate to her children to help them prepare for final exams. She will also take the opportunity to watch the final of the Copa de la Reina for women's football, between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid.
Rocío Monasterio, the candidate for the presidency of Vox in the Community of Madrid, is going to "try to make up time" with her four children and her husband. "Something simple like taking a walk with the children and the dog, which for me is the best time of the week," the regional leader of Vox commented this week in statements to the media on a visit to Fuenlabrada. A 49-year-old architect, she repeats as head of the list, after also doing so in 2019 and 2021. She joined Santiago Abascal's party in 2014, has been very critical of the popular and did not support the budgets of this last year in the Assembly, with which the Community of Madrid had to make an extension.
The Vox candidate for City Council, Javier Ortega Smith, has said that he plans to "tour" this Saturday with his wife some museums in the city that "he has not visited or has not known for a long time."
Alejandra Jacinto, the candidate of Podemos-Izquierda Unida-Alianza Verde, is the successor of Pablo Iglesias. She graduated in Law, she has assured these days that she will dedicate Saturday to her daughter. She also intended to "rest, have vermouth and some beer." She entered the Madrid Assembly in 2021 as number four on the purple lists.
She is 33 years old and is a lawyer, who was very active in the anti-eviction movement in 15M. She is a member of the Free Association of Lawyers and lawyers of Madrid and a member of the Legal Commission of the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages.
For his part, the Podemos-IU-AV candidate for Mayor, Roberto Sotomayor, took advantage of this Saturday to do something very typical of his condition as a former athlete: run. "I'm tired, but I really want to get tired in another way, which is doing sports," he told the media.
Araceli Gómez, known as Aruca, graduated in Law and graduated in Chinese Language and Culture, made the leap to Ciudadanos in 2015. Previously, she had been a deputy and councilor for Tres Cantos with the PP between 1999 and 2003. She has opted for go out into nature with a day of hiking through the Madrid mountains, "to be in contact with the Madrid mountains and disconnect" before Sunday. And the vice mayor and candidate of the orange party for mayor, Begoña Villacís, has taken advantage of the day of reflection to disconnect while she has officiated at the Casa de la Panadería in the Plaza Mayor at a wedding in which she has married a municipal police officer and her girlfriend .
In addition, Villacís will dedicate Saturday to doing all the things at home that are "pending to be done", and he will also try to spend some time with his daughters, whom he "misses a lot" and whom he thanks for having transferred him that they are "very proud of her" and her campaign.
