«We cannot add more spectacle and testosterone.

Women are fed up with doing the dirty work to have to withdraw in historical moments.

Last March 16 will be remembered as the day that Mónica García began to consolidate Más Madrid as an alternative to the PSOE on the left of Madrid and cornered Podemos,

the party from which that parallel step to bipartisanship was opened after 15-M , in the ICU,

in his main fiefdom, where he was born and from where he grew up.

That day this 47-year-old anesthesiologist, daughter of a PCE deputy and mother of three children, gave pumpkins to a former vice president of the Government, the absolute leader of Podemos, after he decided to leave the Executive to come to the rescue of a formation that was dying in Madrid. "Not going together is a mistake," they

repeated from the purple formation, who trusted in the illusion that the reunion of Íñigo Errejón and Pablo Iglesias would generate in a single candidacy.

Time proved García right. What was a hostile takeover bid for Más Madrid turned into a knock in their favor. With her refusal of Iglesias, this then unknown to the general public made visible in prime time the position of her formation, "green and feminist", as Errejón designed it when she slammed the door on Iglesias and

founded it together with Manuela Carmena for the elections of May 2019, and was unveiled.

It was the first step of an intense campaign where the candidate avoided the tone of tension of other parties, the disqualifications - the worst thing she said about Ayuso was "you're a bad person" - and set her own profile, which helped her to exponentially increase her popularity, helped in part by the neighborhood networks that Más Madrid knew how to take care of in the capital, unlike Podemos, which abandoned them.

Yesterday, García broke even the most positive forecasts in his formation, adding 24 seats, four more than those obtained by Errejón in the elections two years ago and the same as the PSOE, which had its darkest night. The

sorpasso

was consummated by obtaining about 4,000 more votes than the Socialists at the close of this edition.

A few minutes after 11 p.m., the official website of the vote of the Community of Madrid confirmed the trend that was being seen in the count and placed Más Madrid above PSOE, which caused the joy to seize the plant 13 of Gran Vía, 30, where the party followed the electoral night. The screams were heard clearly on the floor above, where the press was. “

We have a wide margin of growth

. We are the alternative for change, "the candidate declared shortly after, supported by Errejón and Rita Maestre.

“It shows that there is a space for green and feminist politics. We have the best ideas, the best equipment against noise and

occurrences.

We have put the problems of the people of Madrid in the center, "added García, whose campaign slogan had been" What really matters. "

Errejón's party focused these last two weeks before 4-M on what has come to be called biopolitics. Faced with the slogans of the rivals of "fascism or democracy" or "communism and freedom", from Más Madrid they advocated talking about "daily life": conciliation -the party promotes the 32-hour workweek-, mental health, sustainability ... "

The most radical thing is to talk about everyday life,"

Errejón and García repeated like a mantra in the campaign, the one that has cost the least of the six games (550,000 euros), but the one that managed to get their message across younger.

Affable and close, García, graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University, will thus become the leader of the opposition.

Although he was ranked number 10 on the list led by Errejón in 2019, the arrival of the pandemic gave him, paradoxically, his political opportunity.

The parliamentary group named her co-spokesperson, along with Pablo G. Perpinyà, and, with Ángel Gabilondo out of focus, she starred in the toughest confrontations with the regional president on account of health management.

A moderate white campaign now gives him a role that even Errejón did not have.

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