A year ago, Begoña Villacís had in her hand the possibility of giving the finishing touch to José Luis Martínez-Almeida to lead a motion of no confidence that would boost her to the mayor's office of Madrid during the mask scandal that enriched the pockets of the Luceño commission agents and Medina, but did not. While the mayor has been put on a platter to deal the final blow to the orange candidate for the Madrid City Council, stealing councilors from her and her pulse will not tremble. This is how it can be summarized how the coalition between the Popular Party and Citizens in the capital has been, and how it will end, in which the big fish has devoured the small fish until leaving it without a future as of 28M.
Although the municipal corporation will still take a few weeks to officially dissolve, the marriage of coexistence of popular and oranges has come to an end as expected. With betrayals, trial balloons and blows. According to El País, the Ciudadanos councilors José Aniorte and Ángel Niño "already have the approval" of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to join the ranks of the PP. Or, what is the same, that Almeida could include the two defectors in some lists on which the president of the Community of Madrid has the last word as plenipotentiary leader after the war for control of the PP in Madrid waged with Pablo Casado .
Despite the fact that Ayuso's entourage denies having given his approval, Almeida himself has come to indirectly confirm this Tuesday in Cibeles, acknowledging his deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, that the objective of the Popular Party is to "count" on his list with the "best" managers. A response that does not exclude the two orange ediles -Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in the case of Niño, and Families and Equality, in that of Aniorte- who have best met the popular mayor in this legislature.
If confirmed, it would be a slow-cooked signing that has flown over the Town Hall located in Plaza de Cibeles since summer. The movement has capitalized on so many conversations that the vice mayor and Ciudadanos candidate for mayor, Begoña Villacís, affirmed that if this operation were carried out it would be a "betrayal".
All this, after Villacís herself backed down to become the municipal candidate for Ciudadanos again after seeing how her party's executive rejected her proposal to become an internal current of the PP, magnifying the national crisis of formation and accelerating its disintegration in Madrid to the point that most of the surveys leave him without parliamentary representation as of the next 28M.
Almeida, however, flees from the accusations, hiding behind the fact that his electoral list is not yet configured: "As I have not yet made the list nor have I yet formed the names on the list, I believe that I should not enter into assessing any hypothesis", he has appointed the ruler.
Although, cross-examined by Aniorte and Niño, he has once again stressed that the PP will have the best "because the people of Madrid deserve to have the best public managers, the best public servants, and they deserve that each party make a list with those people we believe They really are the ones that are going to be able to solve the problems that this city has (...) That is the parameter that I am going to use to be able to make the electoral list ”, he reiterated.
In the midst of the political fray, the spokesperson for Más Madrid in the City Council and candidate for Mayor, Rita Maestre, has accused Almeida of being a politician "without a word" after being able to "betray at the last moment" who has been his deputy mayor for four years, Begoña Villacís.
The information is "a good metaphor for how little Almeida's word is worth," Maestre launched from the Palacio de Cibeles. "Almeida is a politician who betrayed his boss, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, spying on her; he is someone who betrayed his investiture partner, the extreme right of Vox; who betrayed Pablo Casado, whose spokesman he was until he fell out of favor." "And now to his deputy mayor, at the last moment," Maestre has reproached, who sees that this behavior denotes that he is "a politician without a word, the worst thing that can be in life and in politics." "Almeida is someone who cannot be trusted," he declared.
