The most visible leaders of Más Madrid signed peace this Wednesday with an agreement that avoids a possible internal fracture. Mónica García, the Minister of Health, and Emilio Delgado, her rival within the party, have agreed on a joint list for the primaries of the Community of Madrid after more than a month of public confrontation in which the very existence of their project was at stake.
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The mystery revealed, Mónica García will be the candidate to face Isabel Díaz Ayuso without anyone from her party overshadowing her, as she wished. The list has been “agreed with the different sensitivities,” according to information accessed by EL PAÍS, which means that Delgado and his circle have given their approval and withdrawn their intention to go to the primaries. For his part, Delgado will go to Congress after securing some power quotas within the party that will ensure he is not sidelined in the future.
The circles of the two most powerful figures of Más Madrid today have reached this understanding after more than 10 days of negotiations that, at times, were about to derail. However, there has been a white smoke. “Más Madrid emerges strengthened from this negotiation, demonstrating that the project of the Madrid left includes everyone and is ready to fight for the presidency of the Community of Madrid and to renew the coalition government,” the party reports. On that list running in the primaries, Mónica García will be number one, Manuela Bergerot number two, and Emilio Delgado number three. In the lists for Congress, Emilio Delgado will be accompanied by Eduardo Rubiño, councilor of the Madrid City Council, and Tesh Sidi, already a deputy during the current legislature.
The Minister of Health will run for the third time in the Community of Madrid elections next year. In the previous one, in 2023, she achieved a better result than the PSOE but did not act as the opposition and joined Pedro Sánchez’s coalition government. For this reason, a sector of her party thought she should not return to the Madrid electoral contest, that she could not take a step back again. That space wanted to be occupied by Emilio Delgado, a deputy in the Madrid Assembly who has gradually raised his profile by participating in television talk shows. However, Delgado’s role within his party diminished at the same pace, until he had almost no participation in anything.
Cornered, Delgado thought it was time to refound the left to prevent the advance of the far right through the Vox brand. He participated in February in a talk alongside deputy Gabriel Rufián that generated much expectation. Also much suspicion within Más Madrid, which considers that Delgado was distancing himself from the party line and acting on his own. Delgado spoke with Rufián about making a much more inclusive left, embracing its main causes such as feminism and social inclusion, but not closing off to other debates in which the right has gained ground such as insecurity and immigration.
That sat so badly within Más Madrid, where Mónica García, the spokesperson in the Assembly, Manuela Bergerot, and the leader in the Madrid City Council, Rita Maestre, are found, that it opened a fracture. Delgado soon hinted that he was willing to run in the Madrid primaries, which is a way of taking control of the party and thus disputing leadership with García. Sparks flew between them. His circle denounced that the party statutes, modified last year, favored the current board in possible primaries, which could better control the members, once the militants were to be left without a vote. That raised the decibels. Chats and social networks filled with discussions between moniquistas and emilistas.
This newspaper revealed a call between the two, a few hours before she announced her desire to participate in the primaries, which showed the harshness of the dispute. After several days of maximum tension, with mutual accusations, they opened rounds of negotiation that culminated successfully this Wednesday. The left, this time, did not go further and its destructive impulse was appeased. Más Madrid rallies around a joint project.
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