Friday, March 29

The traps of the map with which Almeida boasts of the results of the PP in Madrid


Don’t let reality spoil a good headline (or a good map, in this case). José Luis Martínez-Almeida, mayor of Madrid and candidate to revalidate the position with the PP this March 28, must have thought something like this, when he published a message on Twitter accompanied by a map in which practically everything was wrong.

“Today, two years ago, the people of Madrid made it clear at the polls that the Pedro Sánchez model has no place in our city. On May 28, they will make it clear again,” Almeida wrote a few days ago, attaching an image of a map of the city of Madrid divided into districts completely dyed blue, in more or less light tones.

Anyone might think that the mayor was taking advantage of the results he obtained in the previous elections, but here the first problem arises. Let’s go by parts.

In the first place, “two years ago” there were no municipal elections; What was held on May 4, 2021 in Madrid -in the Community- were regional elections advanced by the current president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, which effectively swept, although there are nuances in this as well.

Ayuso’s PP managed to be the first force in all the districts of the city of Madrid, but if we look at the votes obtained by the left-right blocks, the sum dyed the southern districts red, with more than 50% of the votes for the left –PSOE, Más Madrid and Unidas Podemos– in the districts of Vicálvaro, Villa de Vallecas, Usera, Centro and Villaverde, and more than 60% of the support in Puente de Vallecas.




Almeida didn’t even win the municipal elections

On the other hand, if we look at the results that Almeida himself obtained when he ran for the municipal elections that made him mayor in 2019, the maps are even more eloquent. Above all, because the force with the most votes for the mayoralty of the capital was Más Madrid, with 30.9% of the votes and 19 councilors, compared to 24.2% and 15 councilors for the PP.

If Almeida had put up a map of the parties with the most votes in Madrid in the last municipal elections, the result would have been, as can be seen in the street-by-street map of the results published by elDiario.es, something like this, with the dominant green from More Madrid:





www.eldiario.es