The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has called this Thursday to vote next November 29 “for change in Spain” and to “forget Koldos, Ábalos and Sánchez”, in statements in which he insisted that “we are playing for a lot”.
After accompanying the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, at an informative breakfast, the Madrid mayor appealed for participation and summarized his message in a slogan repeated several times: “Let's go vote. It's what's due, we have the opportunity, finally, finally we will be able to vote and what we have to do is go vote”.
Criticism of the Government for housing, Parliament and corruption
In his speech, Martínez-Almeida maintained that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, “will only want to talk about housing”, an issue that, in his opinion, “is an absolute failure on his part”, which is why he defended that the Popular Party (PP) should not focus its discourse solely on that area, but on “everything that has happened in Spain throughout recent years, which is serious enough to go vote”.
The mayor also called to turn the page on “invasions and blackouts”, while considering that the early election responds to a decision made by Sánchez in a judicial key, because “he might not receive good news” in the face of “corruption cases that are advancing”.
“He has chosen the least bad moment”
According to Martínez-Almeida, the President of the Government “has chosen the least bad moment to get the least bad possible result”. Furthermore, he described as “unfortunate” that “a Government was willing to govern with or without Parliament and, indeed, it has governed without Parliament”.
The Madrid mayor closed his speech by questioning the coherence of the President of the Executive, recalling that, in his opinion, Sánchez insisted “insistently” that the legislature should last four years. “With the elections on November 29,” he said, he wondered if it was “another change of opinion or another lie.”