The house of cards of Más Madrid falls apart with the passing of days. The letters of the main group in the Madrid City Council - 19 councilors of the 57 that make up the Plenary - are less and less and their work in the Consistory is diluted in the opposition. "They are knocked out right now. They have not yet recovered from the coup of losing the government and with the departures to Más País do not improve," said municipal sources.

The resignation of Manuela Carmena after losing the City Council and the jump of Íñigo Errejón to national politics, by the hand of Más País, the younger sister of Más Madrid, has decapitalized the municipal group. Two heavyweights of the party have made the leap to the lists for Congress. Marta Higueras , who was first deputy mayor and right hand of Carmena, and Inés Sabanés , former mayor of Environment and Mobility, responsible for launching Central Madrid, will be number two and number three of the national list of Errejón for 10-N.

That Rita Maestre, co-spokesman for More Madrid, has been designated this week also as spokesperson and campaign director for More Country opens an important crack in the municipal group, since the three will turn over in the campaign and will inevitably set aside the tasks municipal, although from the training it is insisted that its involvement with More Country does not have to be at odds with its work in the Consistory of the capital. "It is very difficult to combine the work of councilor with another position because it requires total dedication ," says a councilor of the Plenary.

From Más Madrid, on the other hand, they justify that the electoral campaigns "force to concentrate resources", but the truth is that they also force to leave things aside, in this case, to work full time in their acts of councilor of the Consistory of the capital.

This same week, for example, and with the exception of Monday, when Maestre analyzed the current affairs of the city, the More Madrid media agenda was mainly starred by José Manuel Calvo , who participated in a radio talk show and attended the media on Thursday at the entrance of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Housing and Land Company ( EMVS ); Esther Gómez , who made public statements about the municipalization of the face-to-face assistance of Madrid Line; or Nacho Murgui , who made statements about the associative fabric of the city of Madrid.

To find a public event by Marta Higueras, you have to move to the afternoon yesterday when you attended the awards ceremony of the National Short Film Contest of Orcasitas with Rita Maestre herself. Meanwhile, Inés Sabanés had no act at the municipal level except Monday, when she was in charge of assessing the decision of the Provincial Court of Madrid to dismiss the appeal of the PP on an alleged fraudulent process in the municipality of the BiciMad service.

However, Inés Sabanés did participate in the presentation ceremony of Más País last Tuesday with Íñigo Errejón and on Wednesday he held a meeting with Civio and Access Info to discuss transparency in the elaboration of the national program of the new party for the 10 -N.

These three part-time casualties should be added to the resignation of his councilor Pablo Soto, another of the pillars of the previous municipal government. The former mayor had to leave his post last week accused of sexually harassing a party partner. In his place has entered Luis Nieto , 54, who is supervisor of Radioactive Installations by CIEMAT and works in the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the Complutense University since 2002.

Nieto belongs to the Equo lists, which would thus maintain representativeness in the City Council in the event that, if he gets a deputy seat, Inés Sabanés leaves the mayor's act, as he has said he would do and collect the statutes of the party. It is unknown, however, what Marta Higueras will do. The law allows to reconcile the act of councilor with that of national deputy, but in the case of the former first deputy mayor his decision will not be known until after the general elections of November 10.

In the event that both resign the number 22 of the list will enter the municipal group, the former commissioner of Malasaña Mar Barberán , and the former head of the Cabinet of Carmena, Felipe Llamas . And there would begin a new stage for a majority group in the City Hall of the capital that is broken down by its harder core.

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