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Rita Maestre makes her candidacy for the Más Madrid primaries official: “I want to be the mayoress of Madrid”

2022-11-22T16:25:21.277Z


The opposition spokeswoman announces her appointment on her Twitter profile. On December 20 will be the presentation ceremony of the candidates


And also More Madrid.

The dance of opposition headliners continues for the 2023 elections to the Madrid City Council.

If the municipal spokesman for Vox, Javier Ortega Smith, took the step a few days ago as an electoral poster for Vox, if the Minister of Tourism, Reyes Maroto, did the same this Monday for the PSOE, and if Podemos presented the former Madrid athlete Roberto Sotomayor , Rita Maestre has taken the step to be a candidate for mayor of Madrid in the primaries of Más Madrid.

She has announced her candidacy on her official Twitter profile past noon this Tuesday.

“I have always lived in Madrid and I have spent the last eight years working neighborhood by neighborhood, in the government and in the opposition,” she said.

“Today I take a step forward: I want to be the mayoress of Madrid.

I have always lived in Madrid and have spent the last 8 years working neighborhood by neighborhood, in the government and in the opposition.

Today I take a step forward: I want to be the mayoress of Madrid.

I am going to leave my skin and with your strength I am sure that we are going to return to Cibeles.

pic.twitter.com/twLibU4tvz

— Rita Maestre 🌾 (@Rita_Maestre) November 22, 2022

The movement formalizes a candidacy that, according to party sources, will not have any opponents.

Everything indicates that the electoral image of Más Madrid for 2023 will be for two women: Rita Maestre and Mónica García.

One in the Town Hall and another in the Community.

The calendar of the party's primaries, which began this Tuesday and will end on December 19 with the proclamation of the candidacies and on the 20th with the official act, indicates that the order of the lists and the names will be known in the coming days who will accompany Maestre in his first project as a candidate for mayor of Madrid and his third term as councillor, after four years in the Government with Manuela Carmena -where she was the spokesperson for the City Council-, and these last four as head of the opposition.

“In the lists there will be continuity, but also incorporations,

Maestre, a 34-year-old from Madrid, arrived at the Cibeles Palace in 2014, with no management experience and with the help of Manuela Carmena, who continues to be her great mentor.

"She taught me that if a lady wants to tell you something for 10 minutes, you have to listen for 10 minutes," she said in an interview with this newspaper on April 13.

A few months earlier, she also confessed to EL PAÍS: “If I don't come out as mayor in 2023, I don't know if I'll stay because I haven't considered it.

I have been here for a few years and, within a certain time, when this political cycle ends, I will change my profession.

"And what do you have in mind?"

"I can't reveal it.

He inherits a party and some councilors who won the previous elections in the capital with 503,990 votes: more than one in three people from Madrid opted for the then candidate Manuela Carmena.

Carmena achieved 19 councilors, 11 more than the PSOE and four more than Almeida's PP.

Now, with Maestre, the formation believes that the best option is to appear alone.

Nothing of pacts to the left and appear in a coalition of lefts.

One of the keys to Más Madrid is the structure of the party in the capital, where it has established itself in the 21 districts with a large social mass behind it.

The battle for control of the mayor's office in Madrid is already underway.

The latest polls published to date, all in conservative media,

They reflect that the fight for the command baton of the Cibeles palace would be within reach of one or two councilors.

Only five months to go.

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Source: elparis

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