Almeida's strategy to contain Vox in the Barrio de Salamanca: a comprehensive reform of the area

• Politics Almeida entrusts himself to the works to repeat as mayor: his 12 projects for the end of the mandate

In the last municipal elections of 2019, the PP won widely in the Salamanca district with 38% of the vote -18 points above Más Madrid- in what has always been one of its conservative bastions in the capital.

And that is well known to the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who is already looking towards the May 2023 elections and has specifically focused on this area of ​​the city where the presence of Vox can eat up ground.

If the alderman has entrusted himself to the works as a management model for next year's elections with at least 15 projects to complete, the Salamanca district is the main beneficiary.

At least five of them affect directly or indirectly in this district that the popular want to keep as their fiefdom in the face of the push of the formation of Santiago Abascal, who in the last elections to the Assembly in 2021 already ranked as the second force.

Yesterday Almeida, accompanied by his delegate for Works and Facilities, Paloma García Romero, and the councilor president of the district, José Fernández, inaugurated the first:

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The action of the City Council has focused between the streets of Alcalá and Narváez, rearranging the EMT bus docks, widening the sidewalks and improving what is known as the Goya hippie market.

"The objective is to gain a better public space, more pedestrian space, reorganize the hippie market so well known by all Madrid residents and provide them with better conditions so that more people can come," said Almeida during his visit.

Next to the market, at the confluence of Alcalá with Felipe II,

The reform of this area, whose investment amounts to 2.7 million euros, will be only the first that the Salamanca district will face in this pre-election year.

Because the Works Area is already

, renovated already in the time of Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, with the idea of ​​achieving an aesthetic harmony with the new avenue of Felipe II.

For this, the Consistory will renew part of the pavement, the children's area and will install flower beds so that there are green spaces in that space.

At the same time, the municipal government is advancing in the works

, which runs from Paseo de la Castellana to Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca, with the intention of achieving a new luxury boulevard in the style of Calle Serrano with the 2009 reform. This will create pedestrian itineraries, clearly defined living spaces and a pedestrian platform paved with large granite slabs, as detailed in the Works Area.

Right on the northwest edge of the district, at the confluence with Chamberí and Chamartín, the Consistory also proposes

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The cultural space would be developed from Calle Serrano to the Rubén Darío roundabout, so part of it will also affect the Salamanca district.

A similar circumstance is the one that is repeated in the axis of Joaquín Costa.

Although the bulk of the work, which involved the complete removal of the overpass because it was at risk of collapse, is concentrated in the Chamartín district, part of Príncipe de Vergara street, on which the City Council is now acting together with López de Hoyos and Gabriel Lobo, belongs to Salamanca.

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