Más Madrid

Más Madrid (English: "More Madrid") is the electoral platform formed around Manuela Carmena to succeed Ahora Madrid in Carmena's bid for re-election in the 2019 Madrid municipal election.[5][6] After the crisis sparked in January 2019 by Íñigo Errejón's announcement to form a tandem with Carmena ahead of the 2019 Madrilenian regional election, the platform threatened to cause a major split in Podemos in the Community of Madrid.[7][8]

More Madrid

Más Madrid
Co-coordinatorsMónica García
Pablo Gómez Perpinyà
Manuela Bergerot
Founded22 November 2018 (2018-11-22)
Registered7 February 2019 (2019-02-07)
Split fromPodemos
Preceded byAhora Madrid
HeadquartersC/ Toledo, 136, bj.
28005, Madrid
IdeologyProgressivism[1]
Participatory democracy
Green politics[2]
Political positionCentre-left[3] to left-wing[4]
National affiliationMás País
Confederal Left[lower-alpha 1]
Colours  Emerald
  Dark green
Senate (Madrid seats)
1 / 11
Assembly of Madrid
20 / 132
Madrid City Council
19 / 57
City councils in the Community of Madrid[lower-alpha 2]
14 / 2,260
Website
www.masmadrid.org

History

On 10 September 2018, Mayor of Madrid Manuela Carmena announced that she would run for re-election in the 2019 Madrid municipal election under a new and different platform than the Ahora Madrid instrumental party under which she had successfully contested the 2015 election.[9][10] Carmena wished for her candidacy to be formed by a trusted team made of members of her municipal government. This clashed with attempts from Podemos and United Left–Madrid to impose party member quotas in the lists, bringing a number of outsider partisan figures in detriment of Carmena's allies.[11][12]

On 12 November 2018, all Podemos members in the City Council of Madrid—Rita Maestre, José Manuel Calvo, Jorge Castaño, Esther Gómez, Marta Gómez Lahoz and Paco Pérez—chose to withdraw from the party's scheduled primary election in the city and instead announced their will to contest the municipal election within Carmena's planned platform as independents, prompting Podemos to suspend them from party membership.[13][14] Subsequently, on 22 November, Carmena officially launched her independent Más Madrid platform, which she defined as "innovative, independent, democratic and progressive" and formed "by individuals, not parties".[15][16]

On 17 January 2019, it was announced that Carmena and Íñigo Errejón, Podemos candidate for President of the Community of Madrid and one of Podemos founders, had agreed to launch a joint platform to run at the 2019 Madrilenian regional election.[17][18][19][20] Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias announced later that day that he no longer considered Errejón as the party's candidate in the region for placing himself "outside Podemos" by renouncing the party's trademark, and that Podemos and IU would contest the regional election on their own even if that meant to compete against Más Madrid and, therefore, against Errejón.[21][22] Podemos leaders also urged Errejón to resign his seat in the Congress of Deputies,[23] considering his move as "deceitful" and "a betrayal" to the party.[24] On 21 January, Errejón vacated his seat in the Congress,[25][26] but still called for Podemos, IU and Equo to join the Más Madrid platform.[27]

Some media outlets, such as El Confidencial, had tentatively predicted at first that Más Madrid would conform into a grouping of electors, as it aimed to distance itself from the umbrella of any political party.[28][29] However, on 7 February 2019, it was formally registered as political party in the interior ministry.[30]

The primary election process for electing the party's candidates was scheduled for 12–18 March, with Más Madrid establishing a difference in the method to select the candidates intended to assume executive responsibilities and the rest of the list, with the former being elected through a Borda count (with n=57 both in the municipal and regional list) and a Dowdall count for the latter.[31]

Although it became the largest party in the Madrid City Council after the 2019 Madrid City Council elections (becoming the first force in the Madrid City Council to win over the People's Party of Madrid for the first time since the 1987 Madrid City Council elections) and becoming the most-voted party in fifteen out of the 21 Madrid districts, a coalition government of the People's Party and Ciudadanos with the external support of the far-right Vox elected José Luis Martínez-Almeida as new Mayor of Madrid, leading to former mayor Manuela Carmena announcing her resignation as councillor as she had previously stated during the electoral campaign.

On 1 July, the party elected its regional appointed member according to its results in the regional elections, with Eduardo Rubiño being the chosen Senator.[32]

On 22 September, party members decided that Más Madrid should take part in the November 2019 snap general election called after the failure of government negotiations between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and Unidas Podemos.[33] Party candidates would run under the Más País banner, officially launched on 25 September, which would include alliances with other parties from across Spain such as Equo, Coalició Compromís or Chunta Aragonesista. Several days later, the party name was officially changed in the register of political parties for "Más País".[34]

On 10 July 2020, the membership of Más Madrid endorsed Mónica García's list to coordinate the executive board of Más Madrid, with Pablo Gómez Perpinyà and Manuela Bergerot as additional co-coordinators.[35] Days later, the Rita Maestre-led list was chosen to coordinate the municipal executive board of the party in Madrid city.[36]

Electoral performance

Assembly of Madrid
Assembly of Madrid
Election Votes % # Seats +/– Leading candidate Status in legislature
2019 475,672 14.69% 4th
20 / 132
 20 Íñigo Errejón Opposition

Madrid City Council
City Council of Madrid
Election Votes % # Seats +/– Leading candidate Status in legislature
2019 505,159 30.99% 1st
19 / 57
 1[lower-alpha 3] Manuela Carmena Opposition

Symbols
  • Main logo.
  • Alternative logo.

Notes
  1. In the Senate.
  2. Excluding the City of Madrid.
  3. Compared to Ahora Madrid totals in the 2015 Madrid City Council election.

References
  1. "Errejón pide a Gabilondo centrarse en lo importante, una mayoría progresista". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Madrid. EFE. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  2. "Íñigo Errejón promete 50.000 empleos verdes y 1.800 contratos nuevos en Metro de Madrid". Expansión (in Spanish). Europa Press. 4 May 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  3. Caballero, Fátima (4 March 2019). ""Necesitamos una fuerza a la izquierda de Más Madrid y el PSOE, no solo pequeños brochazos socialdemócratas"". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  4. Minder, Raphael (21 May 2019). "La unidad de la izquierda o la Comunidad de Madrid". The New York Times. Madrid. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  5. Caballero, Fátima (22 November 2018). "Más Madrid, la nueva plataforma de Manuela Carmena para crear la candidatura a las municipales". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  6. Bécares, Roberto; F. Lantigua, Isabel (22 November 2018). "Más Madrid, la plataforma de Manuela Carmena, que dejará la política si no es elegida alcaldesa en 2019". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  7. Gil, Ivan (17 January 2019). "La escisión de Errejón fragmenta a Podemos y amenaza con hasta cuatro candidaturas". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  8. Macías, Carmen (17 January 2019). "Más Madrid: las claves de una nueva formación que hace tambalear la unidad de Podemos". 20 minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  9. "Carmena repetirá como candidata a la Alcaldía de Madrid: "Me han convencido"". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Madrid. Agencias. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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  17. Martiarena, Asier (17 January 2019). "Errejón se desmarca de Podemos y concurrirá con las siglas de Carmena". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  18. Gil, Ivan (17 January 2019). "Errejón y Carmena pactan un tándem electoral al margen de Podemos e IU". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  19. Caballero, Fátima; Pérez Mendoza, Sofía (17 January 2019). "Errejón se alía con Carmena para presentarse con la plataforma Más Madrid a las elecciones autonómicas". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  20. Piña, Raúl; Gómez, Virginia; F. Lantigua, Isabel (17 January 2019). "Errejón desafía a Iglesias e irá a las elecciones con la marca de Carmena". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  21. Riveiro, Aitor (17 January 2019). "Iglesias sitúa a Errejón fuera del partido y anuncia que Podemos e IU se presentarán contra él en las autonómicas". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  22. "Iglesias avisa a Errejón de que Podemos presentará su propia candidatura para la Comunidad de Madrid". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Agencias. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  23. Riveiro, Aitor (18 January 2019). "Pablo Echenique, sobre la continuidad de Errejón como diputado: "Yo dimitiría, pero de algo tiene que vivir hasta mayo"". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  24. "Podemos se resiste a echar a Errejón pero le ataca con dureza". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Madrid. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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  26. Piña, Raúl (21 January 2019). "Iñigo Errejón consuma la ruptura con Podemos y deja de ser diputado". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  27. "Errejón llama a Podemos, IU y Equo a sumarse a la plataforma 'Más Madrid'". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Europa Press. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
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  29. García Martín, Javier (23 November 2018). "Carmena lanza (desde su cocina) Más Madrid, su plataforma "independiente" para las elecciones municipales". 20 minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  30. Riveiro, Aitor (8 February 2019). "Más Madrid, la plataforma de Carmena y Errejón, ya es un partido político". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  31. Caballero, Fátima (23 February 2019). "Las primarias de Más Madrid elegirán por separado a los cargos de gobierno y al resto de la lista de Carmena y Errejón". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  32. "Eduardo Fernández Rubiño será el senador por designación autonómica por Más Madrid" (in Spanish). Madrid: Europa Press. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
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  34. "Más Madrid cambia su nombre a Más País". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Madrid. EFE. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  35. "Mónica García liderará la dirección de Más Madrid en la Comunidad tras el respaldo de los afiliados" (in Spanish). Madrid: Europa Press. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
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