José Luis Martínez-Almeida, the mayor, located in the center of the set, had to dodge (and did) the bullets of that first and only debate just five days before 28-M. The deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, assumed a kind of squire role, defending the municipal management of the last four years.
It took an hour for the word Ayuso to appear in the debate (he did it only once through Sotomayor's mouth)