The efforts of the PP to silence the possible signing of two Cs councilors in the Madrid City Council are of little use if, after a few of the denials, it is confirmed that the aforementioned -the delegate of the social area of the Madrid City Council, Pepe Aniorte, and the head of the Department of Innovation and Employment, Ángel Niño- have resigned from the orange party. And they are worth even less after the mayor himself and popular candidate, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, admitted, without saying names, that he is going to have "the best" on his list for May 28.
As Efe has learned, Niño resigned from the orange party on Monday, a day before El País revealed that the president of the PP, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, would have given the go-ahead for the mayor to sign him and the Delegate for Families, Equality and Social Welfare of the Madrid City Council, Pepe Aniorte.
And the second movement, curiously, was confirmed last night just a few hours after the denials outlined by both Ayuso's entourage and Almeida's. After 10:00 a.m., Aniorte made it official on his social networks with a message that fuels the rumors again: "As a delegate of the City Council's social area, I maintain my commitment to work for Madrid families until the end of my term. My wish is that what started in these four years has continuity in the future, and I am confident that I can contribute to it."
It is not the first time that the two councilors of Ciudadanos of the municipal coalition government have been placed as possible signings of Almeida in the face of the elections on May 28, since in mid-March they already began to sound among the names that the councilor and candidate of the PP would like to have in his team to try to revalidate the position.
The marches of Ciudadanos de Niño and Aniorte represent a new earthquake in the municipal group of Ciudadanos in the Madrid City Council, made up of eleven councilors led by the deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís.
At the end of 2022, the head of the Sports area, Sofía Miranda, announced that she would not appear with the orange party in the elections due to disagreements with the second mayor of the capital when in the months before they formed a well-oiled tandem.
Both sources close to the Madrid president and Mayor Almeida have denied that both parties have spoken about the signings of Pepe Aniorte and Ángel Niño. The councilor, in fact, has insisted as an argument that "not even" his list proposal is ready for May 28, although it is "undeniable" that the deadline is getting closer.
But none of this seems enough to stop the political debate in Cibeles to the point that Villacís herself has warned that it would be a "betrayal" for the popular to sign charges from the orange party at this point in the mandate.
