Two overwhelming absolute majorities will allow Isabel Díaz Ayuso and José Luis Martínez-Almeida (PP) to continue at the head of the Community and the City Council of Madrid until 2027. The regional president has added 71 seats this Sunday, improving by six those obtained in 2021, according to the provisional balance with 95% of the votes counted. For his part, the mayor has gone from 15 councilors to 29, practically doubling his balance of 2019. That result is like a trip back in time, because it returns the PP to 2011, the last time in which the two institutions governed with an absolute majority. More than a decade later, with Ciudadanos, which has failed to achieve representation in either constituency, appearing and disappearing, the conservatives will once again have a free hand in their stronghold of Madrid. A result with ramifications of all kinds. At the national level, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of the PP, will try to use it as a springboard for the general elections at the end of the year. Internally, however, the balance reinforces Díaz Ayuso as a counterweight and alternative leadership, and returns to place the Madrid party, which she presides, as one of the most powerful of the entire organization. Just what happened in the times of Esperanza Aguirre and Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón.
It all started on March 23. With the solemnity of the key moments, Isabel Díaz Ayuso took the floor in the Assembly and announced a divorce that was an electoral claim: "As of today, everyone follows their path," she said looking at Vox. Two months later, and after criticizing again and again the extreme right for having left her without Budgets in 2023, the conservative leader has built her absolute majority on the leaks of her former parliamentary partner, who has lost three deputies with 95% of the votes counted (from 13 to 10). After absorbing the voters of Ciudadanos in 2021, Díaz Ayuso follows the path of Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, president of Andalusia, who also governs with an absolute majority, and reinforces the PP's attempt to reunify under its acronym the entire right to the right of the PSOE.
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The success of the People's Party, celebrated on the noble floors of the headquarters of Genoa even before the end of the vote, has been the defeat of the left. These are the data of that hecatomb. After a campaign marked by division and cross-attacks between progressive forces, Podemos has not achieved representation either in the Community or in the City Council of the capital.
In the regional Assembly, More Madrid has remained 44 seats behind Díaz Ayuso, with a total of 27, followed by the PSOE, also with 27, according to the data with 95% of the votes counted, which resolved the pulse for the leadership of the opposition in favor of Mónica García and with a slim margin of just 6,000 votes.
In the City Council, Más Madrid has resisted as a reference of the left, despite the blow that supposes to lower of the 19 councilors of 2019, when Manuela Carmena was the candidate, to the 12 of now, with Rita Maestre. It is followed by the PSOE (11) and Vox (5).
The result demonstrates the validity of the Ayuso effect and crowns an almost unprecedented political metamorphosis. In 2019, the Baroness and her running mate became the first Conservative candidates to lose in these constituencies since 1987. Four years later, and after prevailing in the early elections of 2021, the pull of Ayuso has propelled Martínez-Almeida to a triumph that no poll had predicted, and that has been built on the voters of CS: Begoña Villacís, the deputy mayor of the councilor in the coalition government that led the last legislature of the capital, has not achieved representation on the City Council.
Only time will tell how is the coexistence of the couple of leaders of the PP. After clashing during the civil war that ended with Pablo Casado, the mayor, who wanted to prevent Díaz Ayuso from presiding over the PP of Madrid, had assumed his subordination to the president. Now, however, the result reinforces it. And in the PP they already know that the coexistence of two politicians with chevrons in such marked squares can cause sparks to jump: this is what happened between Aguirre and Ruiz-Gallardón. A past and happy time for their interests, before CS, and before Vox, to which the PP now returns.
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