Citizens in Madrid: from the casting to find a regional candidate for the "ballast" of the initials for Villacís

• Politics Begoña Villacís will not appear with Ciudadanos if Edmundo Bal takes over the party

The refounding and the primary process has opened a new political scenario in Ciudadanos, but the

formation continues to advance in its process towards the regional and municipal elections in May.

The intention of the party is to attend both elections despite the practical disappearance they face in all national territories, since they have not been represented in the Assembly since the last elections in which Edmundo Bal failed to overcome the 5% barrier. that grants you deputies in the community.

In fact, as EL MUNDO has learned, at the regional level there are mainly three profiles, without finally ruling out that this number increases or decreases, that they manage in the party to try to re-engage in Madrid politics.

Although the task does not seem easy given that Isabel Díaz Ayuso,

, will almost completely dominate the center-right spectrum.

Sources from the formation, still reluctant to give names because the final decision has not been made, point out that one of the members of this shortlist

but has been in internal work. in the capital.

It should be remembered that Ciudadanos had formed a coalition with the PP between 2019 and 2021 to govern the Community of Madrid.

Until President Ayuso, after the threat of a vote of no confidence in Murcia, decided to break the agreement with her partner, who ended up disappearing from the regional scene to which she now intends to return despite the fact that the party is in the process of being refounded and the brand orange is on the verge of disappearance.

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," they point out from the match.

A different situation is presented in the City Hall of the capital with the figure of Begoña Villacís, the last electoral loophole that the

cling to .

According to the polls, the vice mayor could once again be key for José Luis Martínez-Almeida to be mayor.

And that is what they cling to in Ciudadanos, although sources consulted by this newspaper indicate that at this moment

.

«The Begoña Villacís brand has an electoral pull by itself, but the situation of the party is detrimental.

It must be remembered that in 2019 it was the brand that promoted her, ”they point out from the Madrid faction of the party.

In fact, an internal poll by Ciudadanos, commissioned by the Metroscopia company and to which this newspaper has had access, places Begoña Villacís, along with Mayor Almeida, as the only figures in Madrid municipal politics who approve among voters with a 5 .6 for the councilor and 5.2 for his number two.

The same survey points out that 49% of Madrid residents believe that the vice mayor has "still a lot to contribute in politics" and that

and 18% who bet because they go to the elections in a joint candidacy of both formations.

Along the same lines, 59% of those surveyed prefer that PP and Ciudadanos appear separately at the polls and 25% that they do so in electoral tandem.

But until the polls are placed in the capital to designate the next mayor, there are just over six months in which the political scenario can still take an absolute turn.

In fact, as this newspaper published, if Edmundo Bal assumes power in Ciudadanos, for which he presented a candidacy last Friday, Villacís would not go to the elections with the party because in his environment they consider that he is not an appropriate profile to assume the direction.

That could open up scenarios such as there being an independent candidacy, of which his team is not very supportive;

that he join the

ranks , which she has publicly refused, or that he not continue in politics.

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