The PP plans to present before the Central Electoral Board the banner that Más Madrid has hung on the balconies of its offices in the Groups Building on Mayor Street, with which it questions the housing policy of the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, according to sources from the party indicated to Europa Press.
The team of Rita Maestre intended with this initiative to remind the "pride of Almeida for doing nothing" to "regulate" the price of rents in Madrid.
The banner literally reproduces a cross of messages on the social network 'X' in 2021. In that exchange, Más Madrid mocked what the mayor would do to control the cost of rentals in the city with an image that read "NOTHING," to which the mayor responded with an "Exactly."
With this campaign, Más Madrid wants to focus on the fact that the housing access crisis in the capital "has only worsened" and points to the PP as the "direct responsible," accusing it of applying housing policies "tailored to vulture funds and large speculators."
Among its reproaches, the formation emphasizes the rejection of both the mayor and the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to apply the Housing Law to declare stressed areas and try to contain the escalation of rents.
Response from the municipal PP to Más Madrid's criticisms
The spokesperson for the PP in the Madrid City Council, Carlos Izquierdo, responded this Wednesday defending that the local Executive has no intention of intervening in private property. "Nothing, that is precisely what we are going to do because we are not going to intervene in private property," he stated.
Izquierdo related Más Madrid's action to the proximity of the upcoming elections and criticized it for resorting again to "the banner." He also maintained that the opposition group has not presented "a single proposal for housing" so far this legislature.
Against Más Madrid's housing model, which he labeled as "smoke," "banner," and "demagoguery," the popular spokesperson defended Almeida's project, based, he said, on "the facts," "turnkey," and "more public housing."