The division between Carmenistas and Errejonistas is no longer enough to define the atomization that, since 2021, the political space of Más Madrid has suffered in the City Council of the capital and now the division has occurred between the former. Marta Higueras, who held the organic spokesperson before splitting off along with four other councilors and forming the mixed group, has decided to take another turn in her career and break with her colleagues from Recupera Madrid
This is how he made it known this Wednesday for seeing "some things differently" from that of his colleagues José Manuel Calvo and Luis Cueto -who defend that Recupera Madrid must attend the municipal elections of 2023 as a group of voters- and because their bet passes for "adding more than for new candidates".
Although, deep down, there is already a glimpse of a fight over the inheritance of the previous mayor Manuela Carmena. In that sense, Higueras has asserted that her position has not changed and that, in fact, she is "the only one, besides Manuela Carmena herself, who has not moved." "I came to government with Manuela as councilor without a party and I'm still in the same place," she stressed.
Marta Higueras was the great absentee in the presentation of the group of voters at the beginning of July. She then explained that her institutional activity and as spokesperson for the Mixto - replaced since August by Calvo in application of the rotation spokesperson that had been assigned - required a dedication that did not allow distractions or time to travel this path "of the group of voters.
Also then he remarked that the family of the left "is big and has many voices", with which he would seek progressive unity, the same ideas of the thread that he publishes today on Twitter as a result of an interview in 'El País'.
"The Mixed Group is still there but we have different agendas and strategies. I wish you luck in your project, but I am more about adding than about new candidates and we see some things differently," the councilor said on her social networks.
Among those "things" seen "in a different way", Higueras points to "all that ugly business of the complaints, the reconsideration of the terrace ordinance" or his "opposition to talking again about budgets with the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida , after verifying that he has no word".
In the same Twitter thread, he invites citizens to "mobilise, take to the streets and not give up" because "politics cannot be to put a ballot in the ballot box every four years."
"Madrid has become a city without law: if you are close to the PP you can open any business that anything goes, even if you make life impossible for your neighbors. And they themselves have gotten out of hand with the terraces, the noise or ghost kitchens", he listed.
The mayor justifies that "everyone" understood "that you had to support the hotel industry and get the business out of closed spaces in the worst of the pandemic, but a good intention has become a nightmare for coexistence and when something does not work you have to Be willing to admit it." The modification of the terrace ordinance went ahead with the votes of PP, Cs and Mixed.
"I am concerned about the lack of interest in real problems on the street and everything is in the hands of advertisers. That is why it seems so important to me to give neighborhoods a voice. The role of citizens on a day-to-day basis is essential, going out into the streets , pressing... it works", Higueras pointed out, certifying the division into three parts of the More Madrid project led by former mayor Manuela Carmena.
