Más Madrid is already running for the mayoralty of Madrid in 2023: Rita Maestre signs Eduardo Rubiño and Lucía Lois for her list

The councilors of Más Madrid, Rita Maestre and Félix López Rey, this Thursday.MÁS MADRID (MÁS MADRID)

More Madrid has stepped on the accelerator of the 2023 electoral campaign. It has anticipated the rest of the parties with the main names that will go on its ballot next year.

If Rita Maestre took the step to be a candidate for mayor of Madrid in the Más Madrid primaries this Tuesday, three days later, she has already configured the first four names on her list to try to return to the Madrid City Council after four years of Government of PP and Citizens.

On the afternoon of this Thursday, the formation announced that Félix López Rey will be number two and on Friday morning, two more: the deputy of the Madrid Assembly, Eduardo Rubiño, who will be number four, and the social activist who was the spokesperson for the Patio Maravilla, Lucía Lois, of three.

"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," Maestre said on his Twitter profile, where he announced his step forward to run for the party's primaries and thus lead the formation.

“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, ”she wrote.

Voices with a lot of weight in the game emphasize that it will have no rival.

The party's primary calendar began this Tuesday, it will conclude on December 19 with the proclamation of the candidacies and on the 20th with the official act of Maestre as a candidate.

Two days later, the first four positions are already known, which are usually the personal bet of the candidate.

Number two, López-Rey, is a true political institution in the capital and a figure that draws thousands of votes in Orcasitas.

He began his activism in the 70s, when shanty towns predominated in this neighborhood and there were hardly any asphalt streets.

He promoted one of the first neighborhood associations.

"It's a luxury to have him by my side," Maestre said.

"He is an indisputable reference to the left."

However, the most striking signing is Eduardo Rubiño, who will leave the Madrid Assembly to join the Madrid City Council as a councilor.

Rubiño is one of the most media voices in the party, especially for his defense of the LGTBI collective.

“I want him to be a key piece in my team to return to the mayoralty of Madrid.

Together it's easier."

Rubiño has announced his incorporation to the City Council list on his Twitter profile.

"I am leaving with the future mayoress of Madrid, I am very happy with the decision," he said during an interview on

: "Remove Almeida from the mayor's office and put an end to the management disaster of recent years."

Finally, third place on the list goes to Elisa Lois, who was a spokesperson for Pato Maravillas and a well-known social activist in the capital.

She is involved, above all, in the School Revolt movement, which demands safe and car-free spaces around the city's schools.

The full list will be released next week.

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 six months to go.

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