The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, have reiterated this Friday

the strength and good health of the municipal government that makes up the PP and CS

in the capital, with a relationship of "cordiality" and "commitment". for the people of Madrid.

Both have responded to this question after the last few days, which have been marked on the municipal agenda by the political future of the deputy mayor and

a possible move to the ranks of the Popular Party that she has already denied.

"We work hand in hand. We have overcome many difficult moments. We work with total normality and cordiality. I cannot add another adjective.

Many times it is more what is created from the outside

. If they put a hidden camera on us, people would still be surprised," he said. Begoña Villacís transferred to journalists from the Caja Mágica, according to Europa Press.

Along the same lines, the mayor has specified that the "personal situations that each one may go through should not affect the functioning of the Government."

For this reason

, he has reiterated a message of "tranquility and confidence to the people of Madrid",

to whom he has communicated that "they have a government that is going to work and that they can count on".

The deputy mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, added that she

does not believe that the Ciudadanos councilors of the Madrid City Council will end up in the Popular Party (PP),

in relation to the possibility that the almost 170 positions in her party who have gone to Alberto Núñez Feijóo's formation is joined by another 80. She also added that she is not aware of "the people who leave", but of those who "stay" and commented that in life there are always people who "in the difficult times go away" and "people who stay.

"The people of Madrid and the affiliates can count on me," she assured.

Asked if she has the support of the councilors of the Madrid consistory,

Villacís pointed out that she has always felt "very supported" by them, by the party and by the people of Madrid,

even by councilors from "other towns", since now Seeing that "there are many people who supported what I was saying" about running in the municipal elections with other platforms.

In this sense, the mayor of Alcobendas, Aitor Retolaza, does not rule out presenting himself with a platform, something that Villacís supported because what he does is "see how to make the center stronger in its political space and in a territory that it knows better than nobody".

According to her, this is something "very sensible".

"It's very logical, thanks to these examples you begin to understand what I was saying," added the deputy mayor of Madrid, who stressed that municipalism "is something very different from national politics," they have "nothing to do in many occasions" and local platforms "make a lot of sense.

On the decision of the Madrid City Council councilor Santiago Saura not to stand in the Ciudadanos primaries for the elections,

Villacís assured that he has always had him on his team and that he has "deep respect and great affection for him."

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Of course I would love to have him on my team," he added.

Villacís stressed that this Wednesday she was "quite resounding" and "absolute" about the rumors of her march to the PP and recalled that she will appear in the Ciudadanos primaries to compete for the Mayor of the Madrid City Council.

"Now I'm especially looking forward to this campaign and I'm looking forward to everything starting and if someone wants to run, let them run," she said.

"Once that week of speculation is over, everything has become clear," he stressed and explained that he now has before him "an electoral campaign" that he believes is "one of the most important" to which he has presented himself because the first time he presented himself he did not we lived in such a "polarized panorama".

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