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37-647: It was founded as the electoral platform formed around Manuela Carmena to succeed Ahora Madrid in Carmena's bid for re-election in the 2019 Madrid City Council election . 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 . The party currently leads

74-700: A cashier. She attended the French School of the Black Ladies. During her time as a student, Carmena served as voluntary worker in a preserves factory run by the Servicio Universitario del Trabajo . After graduating in law in 1965 from the University of Valencia , she became a legal representative of workers and detainees during the Francoist State and was co-founder of the labour law office where

111-411: A coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they were seeking election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Madrid, as its population

148-623: A judge she began an almost solitary fight to prevent corruption in existing courts. In 1986 she received the National Human Rights Award. She was a founding member of the progressive association Judges for Democracy . Judge of Penitentiary Vigilance and head of the Penitentiary Vigilance Court No. 1 of Madrid, she was elected senior judge of Madrid in 1993. She was appointed as member of the General Council of

185-678: A small retail business selling children's games, clothing and shoes made by prisoners at the Alcalá de Guadaira jail in Seville . Carmena headed Ahora Madrid 's ticket in the Madrid local election held on 24 May 2015. After Ahora Madrid made a coalition deal with the PSOE, Carmena was elected as Mayor on 13 June 2015, obtaining the votes of 29 out of 57 councillors and thereby winning a narrow majority. Carmena reduced Madrid's municipal debt by €5.6 billion (or 38%) in

222-443: A treaty. Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation , with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale: The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned

259-578: Is a retired Spanish lawyer and judge who served as Mayor of Madrid from June 2015 to June 2019. She was a member of the General Council of the Judiciary . She was born on 9 February 1944 in Madrid , in the area near the Dehesa de la Villa . Both sides of her family had a background in small business: her father Carmelo (a native of Toledo ) ran a shirt shop at the corner of Gran Vía and Chinchilla Street in central Madrid. Her mother, meanwhile, worked as

296-406: Is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in

333-480: Is how to combat the systematic lies that deform the social reality." 1987 Madrid City Council election Juan Barranco PSOE Juan Barranco PSOE The 1987 Madrid City Council election , also the 1987 Madrid municipal election , was held on Wednesday, 10 June 1987, to elect the 3rd City Council of the municipality of Madrid . All 55 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election

370-544: The 1977 Atocha massacre took place. Carmena, who joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in 1965, married architect Eduardo Leira in 1967; they have had two children: Eva and Manuel. She ran as a candidate in the PCE list for the 1977 general election in the constituency of Madrid . She had left the party by 1981. After passing public examinations to become a judge, she started her judicial career in January 1981. As

407-565: The 2019 Madrid City Council elections , becoming the first group in Madrid City Council to finish ahead of the People's Party of Madrid since the 1987 Madrid City Council elections and the most-voted party in fifteen out of 21 Madrid districts, a coalition government of the People's Party (PP) and Ciudadanos with the external support of the far-right Vox elected José Luis Martínez-Almeida as

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444-453: The 2019 municipal election , but stated that she would retire from the City Council should she not be re-elected as Mayor. In November 2018, the political platform for Más Madrid was unveiled, with Carmena at its centre. In the municipal election held on 26 May 2019, Más Madrid was the most-voted party, obtaining 19 seats in the plenary assembly, but on 15 June 2019, the People's Party 's mayoral candidate José Luis Martínez-Almeida , with

481-486: The Ahora Madrid party under which she had successfully contested the 2015 election. Carmena wished for her candidacy to be formed by a trusted team made up 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 place of Carmena's allies. On 12 November 2018, all Podemos members in

518-661: 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 intention to contest the municipal election within Carmena's planned platform as independents, prompting Podemos to suspend them from party membership. 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". On 17 January 2019, it

555-521: The Judiciary (proposed by United Left ) and served from 1996 to 2001. After retiring from the judiciary in 2010, Carmena moved on to become a member of the Patronato de la Fundación Alternativas , a think tank with ties to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and whose members included the former Socialist prime ministers Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero . Carmena

592-452: The Más Madrid platform. Some media outlets, such as El Confidencial , had tentatively predicted at first that Más Madrid would become a grouping of electors , as it aimed to distance itself from the umbrella of any political party. On 7 February 2019, it was formally registered as a political party in the interior ministry . The primary election process for electing the party's candidates

629-555: The agreement reached, which left a party (Más Madrid) that had obtained almost double the percentage of votes out of the Parliament's management body than another that did achieve a position (Vox)". However, this declaration had mere declarative effects, as the legislature already concluded when Isabel Díaz Ayuso called for the 2021 snap elections. Manuela Carmena Manuela Carmena Castrillo ( Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnwela kaɾˈmena kasˈtɾiʎo] ; born 9 February 1944)

666-580: The complaint filed by Más Madrid after the 2021 elections, in which the party was excluded from the Bureau of the Madrid Assembly despite having obtained 15% of the votes in favor of Vox, which obtained 8% of the votes, establishing that article 23.2 of the Constitution was violated as the "right of access to the position under conditions of equality was violated in this case due to the lack of proportionality of

703-450: The current party leadership, especially with Rita Maestre, four Madrid councillors ( Marta Higueras , José Manuel Calvo, and Felipe Llamas y Luis Cueto, whow as close to Carmena), announced their departure from the party to become part of the group of non-aligned councilors. Following the 2021 Madrilenian regional election , Más Madrid became the second force in the Assembly of Madrid, becoming

740-453: The failure of government negotiations between the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos (UP). 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

777-546: The first 18 months of her mayorship. In this same time period, Carmena also managed to increase social spending by 26%, which led to an investigation by the opposing People Party's Treasury minister in order to examine Madrid's compliance with Cristóbal Montoro 's national spending regulations. This feud between the national Ministry and the municipal Department of Economy and Finance forced Carmena to sack Carlos Sánchez Mato from his position as councillor in December 2017. Also in

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814-559: The first half of her mandate, the ayuntamiento organised several public consultations in order to decide on issues, opening up public input on part of the municipal budget as well as on a project for the revitalisation of the Plaza de España . The council's executive board also changed 52 street and place names hanging over from the Francoist dictatorship which did not comply with the 2007 Law of Historical Memory . Carmena ran for re-election in

851-509: The first party aside from the PP and the PSOE to do so in the region, as it surpassed the PSOE as the most voted left-wing force in the region. Europe Elects summarized that "Más Mádrid voters are typically younger than PSOE's, less skewed to the left in the income distribution than UP's and more educated than both PSOE and UP." On 10 March 2022, the Constitutional Court of Spain supported to

888-573: The level of support reached by the coalition in 1983 and also lost votes and seats. Benefitting from both parties' losses was the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS), which, with its 8 seats and 15% of the votes, entered the City Council for its first and only time and went on to hold the balance of power. United Left (IU), an electoral coalition comprising the Communist Party of Spain and other left-wing parties, continued on its long-term decline and lost 1 more seat, barely obtaining 100,000 votes and 6% of

925-476: The new Mayor of Madrid . This led Carmena to follow on her campaign promise by announcing her resignation as councillor. On 1 July 2019, the party elected its regional appointed member according to its results in the regional elections, with Eduardo Rubiño being the chosen Senator. On 22 September 2019, party members decided that Más Madrid should take part in the November 2019 Spanish general election called after

962-543: The opposition in both the Assembly of Madrid and the Madrid City Council , and it is also the biggest group in the latter, having overtaken the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party as the main left-of-centre party in the region. On 10 September 2018, the then-incumbent 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

999-518: The party's trademark, and that Podemos and IU would contest the regional election on their own even if that meant competing against Más Madrid and Errejón. Podemos leaders also urged Errejón to resign his seat in the Congress of Deputies , considering his move as "deceitful" and "a betrayal" of the party. On 21 January, Errejón vacated his seat in the Congress but still called for Podemos, IU, and Equo to join

1036-526: The register of political parties to Más País. 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. Days later, the Rita Maestre -led list was chosen to coordinate the municipal executive board of the party in Madrid. On 5 March 2021, after alleging discrepancies with

1073-609: The share. AP and CDS together reached an absolute majority, but failure on reaching an agreement resulted in Socialist Juan Barranco being re-elected as mayor. However, in June 1989, both parties agreed to present a motion of censure on Barranco and elect Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún from the CDS as new mayor, ousting the PSOE from power in the city after a 10-year rule. The City Council of Madrid ( Spanish : Ayuntamiento de Madrid )

1110-403: The support of Citizens and Vox , earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors (29 out of 57 councillors) and was elected as Mayor. On 17 June 2019, Carmena resigned from her councillor seat. In January 2021, she complained that, "We are infected with lies regarding reality. It is very difficult to develop correct policies for a deformed reality. One of the issues we must consider

1147-437: The vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot. The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry , coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form

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1184-671: Was Chair-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and as such, she has visited Equatorial Guinea , Honduras , Nicaragua and South Africa , among other countries. In September 2011, Carmena was appointed advisor to the Patxi López cabinet of the Basque Government in the area of assistance to victims of police abuse. Carmena Castrillo founded the supportive cooperative "Yayos emprendedores" (literally, "entrepreneur grannies"), which manages

1221-465: 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 . 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

1258-447: Was held simultaneously with regional elections in thirteen autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain , as well as the 1987 European Parliament election . The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won the election, but lost its absolute majority and lost 137,000 votes compared to 1983. The People's Alliance (AP), which stood separately after the breakup of the People's Coalition in 1986, failed to meet

1295-403: Was over 1,000,001, at least 8,000 signatures were required. The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey

1332-409: Was scheduled for 12–18 March, with Más Madrid establishing a difference in the method of selecting 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. Although it became the largest party on the City Council of Madrid after

1369-509: Was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Madrid , composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage , which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the municipality of Madrid and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-nationals whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of

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