Fear in Más Madrid for "the ballast" of the PSOE in the City Hall: "Reyes Maroto can take away many options to add"

With the elections looming just around the corner and with the arrival of the new year, the chips are already beginning to move in the block of the Madrid left where Más Madrid has established itself as the main force both at the regional and municipal level.

The collapse of the PSOE in the 4-M and its concatenation of paratroopers to be candidates in the City Council have allowed the formation headed by

to consolidate itself in the Assembly and in the Consistory as leader of the opposition and even has options to govern in Cibeles.

According to most polls, the current mayor,

, will be the most voted in the municipal elections on May 28, followed by Rita Maestre.

But in the electoral cabals there is the possibility that the left manages to add as happened in 2015 with

.

"It is a very real option, the numbers can give us," say sources from the left-wing formation, following some tracking they have.

But the fear that they harbor in Más Madrid is not so much in the block on the right as in their own, the one on the left.

Specifically in the PSOE and its candidate

.

The Madrid socialists spent weeks announcing that they would have a powerful profile to compete in Cibeles because they had detected weakness in Almeida.

When the Minister of Industry was announced, the expectations of the left were deflated.

Sources from Más Madrid point out that Maroto can be "a drag" on their aspirations because she is not well known, she does not have the combative profile they need and she was already number two for Ángel Gabilondo in the 4-M regional elections in which the Socialists went from being the force with the most votes to third in the Madrid Assembly.

"It can take away many options for there to be a progressive government," point out other sources consulted by

, who, however, insist that the campaign is "long" and that "Almeida is not going through his best moment."

But they would prefer another candidate in the socialist ranks.

«We do not want to grow at the expense of the PSOE, we are interested in them being strong to be able to add together.

If we grow and they deflate, there are no options, ”they indicate in Más Madrid.

Even in the socialist ranks themselves, there are those who do not share the decision of the national and regional leadership that Reyes Maroto be the candidate.

"She has not toured the neighborhoods of Madrid as has been done in the municipal group," two critics agree with the choice of the minister, who will also maintain her position until well into the year, which implies international travel and, therefore, less presence in the capital to adapt to the position.

Rita Maestre appears before the media after a commission from the Madrid City Council. PÉREZ MECAEP

At the regional level, the prospects for Más Madrid are also on the rise despite the change in trend shown last Friday by the regional CIS, where José Félix Tezanos shot the socialist candidate, Juan Lobato, to second position and in the high bracket he It allowed it to grow to 38 deputies, 14 more than the current ones.

"The polls do not vote and they must be taken with caution," remarked the spokesperson for the formation, Mónica García.

six deputies

In his team they do not share at all the forecasts thrown by the barometer of the public body since, according to their data, currently they would not only outperform the PSOE but would greatly exceed it and increase their distance in the next regional elections.

"We will be in about six deputies more than them," point out sources from the formation who hope to add both left and right with the collapse of United We Can and scratching some votes in the red belt of Madrid that 4-M took Isabel Díaz Ayuso and that they could return to the left in May.

They understand in the formation that the socialist mayors of those municipalities will drag votes that vanished in 2021 towards the regional president and that they will now be back on the left.

And that, in this scenario, not only the PSOE will benefit, but also them.

"The movement of votes between blocks when two elections coincide are not so common, but within the same spectrum they can occur."

For their part, in the PSOE of Madrid they are convinced that "there is a party" in the autonomous communities and that they can even compete with Ayuso because, according to their studies, they have been recovering votes from the left and these are grouped in their ranks.

There, the councilors of the southern and eastern zone are once again key to give a boost to Lobato's candidacy.

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