Thursday, March 28

The PSOE of Madrid today awaits the announcement of the candidacy of Minister Reyes Maroto to the City Council


The PSOE of Madrid hopes that the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, announces this Monday her candidacy for the City Council of the capital, a place that the Socialists have resisted for more than three decades. The challenge for Maroto, a leader very close to Pedro Sánchez since he held a seat in the Madrid Assembly led by Ángel Gabilondo in 2015, will be to get the PSOE out of the fourth position to which it was relegated in the elections four years ago years with former basketball coach Pepu Hernández as the headliner.

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Maroto’s intention is to stage his step to the front this Monday, after the socialist leadership decided to delay the process of electing a candidate for the capital and, later, delay the announcement more than initially planned, during his participation in the inauguration of the I Conference on Tourism organized by Europa Press, according to party sources in Madrid. Six socialist ministers will attend this event to support her: the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño; the Minister of Finance and Public Administration, María Jesús Montero; the Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Pilar Alegría; the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with Parliament and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños; the Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez; and the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta.

The Madrid federation has been boiling since a couple of months ago, Sánchez made the decision to go to a plan B by ruling out the Government delegate, Mercedes González, as a candidate for mayor, who was the one who had been initially pointed out from Ferraz. Maroto’s name had been sounding in the socialist ranks for weeks and Sánchez himself had left the door open for his appointment, which in the party they take for granted that it will be direct by not foreseeing any rival in the primary process that opens in the next days. “As a militant, I am at the party’s disposal, but it is true that at this moment I am very busy with my Industry, Commerce and Tourism portfolio,” Maroto herself said just four days ago.

Maroto’s departure, which is expected to join that of the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, bound for Las Palmas, will force Sánchez to make a new remodeling of the coalition government.

The PSOE has been stripping away the daisy of the City Council candidacy to the point that last week the regional secretary general, Juan Lobato, announced that it would be a woman who headed the list. He had previously assured that he would be a “recognizable” candidate for the socialist militancy, accustomed to the paratroopers of Moncloa and Ferraz, and prepared to stay in the consistory for the next four years if the left fails to seize power from the PP. The always convulsive Madrid federation is in a truce for now at the expense of what happens in the next municipal and regional elections.



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