The Minister of Health and co-spokesperson for Más Madrid, Mónica García, announced this Saturday that she will once again be her party's candidate in the next Madrid regional elections, thus repeating the ticket with which she already ran in 2021, when she managed to position her party as the second force in the Assembly.
The announcement has occurred during the third edition of the festival La madrileña, organized by the formation in the Parque Paraíso of the capital, an event with a marked pre-election tone in which García has attacked the more than 25 years of PP governments in the Community of Madrid.
Objective: govern Madrid
During her speech, the leader of Más Madrid has defined the stage of the Popular Party at the head of the region as "the laboratory of neoliberalism" and has assured that the "next station" must be to put an end to that political cycle.
“If we want to change things, we have to govern Madrid,” he proclaimed before confirming his candidacy for the regional presidency.
With this step, García officially becomes the main electoral reference for Más Madrid for a date in which she will seek to dispute power with the current regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Message against the right
The minister has framed the next electoral cycle as an ideological confrontation against the right and the far-right. “It’s time to stand up to Trump, Abascal, and Ayuso,” she stated, in an address in which she championed political traditions linked to the defense of public services, feminism, and social movements.
In that context, it has cited mobilizations such as the tides in defense of public healthcare, the 8M movement, or the protests against the Iraq War, usual elements of the political narrative of the Madrid left.
Government Balance and Social Agenda
García also took advantage of the event to defend the economic management of the central Executive, highlighting the employment data, affiliation to Social Security, and decrease in unemployment.
In international matters, it has called for the suspension of the trade agreement between the European Union and Israel and has highlighted the arrival in Spain of sick minors from Gaza.
Likewise, it has claimed measures promoted by the Ministry of Health, such as the registry of conscientious objectors or reforms aimed at safeguarding the right to abortion.
Pre-campaign in Madrid
With this announcement, Más Madrid de facto activates its regional pre-campaign and confirms that it will once again bet on the figure of Mónica García as its main electoral asset in a community where the progressive space remains fragmented between PSOE, Más Madrid, and other left-wing forces. The unknown now will be how that bloc is ordered and if it manages to build a competitive alternative against Ayuso's PP.