It is unusual to see politicians on programs like El Hormiguero outside of an electoral campaign. That is why this Tuesday the presence on air of the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, to be interviewed by Pablo Motos was surprising, during a particularly complicated moment for his party as a result of the political crisis associated with the tragedy by the DANA in Valencia. .
The presenter, from Valencia, went directly to the issue as soon as he started his questions, asking the mayor about the PP’s management in the face of the alerts and then about Feijóo’s attitude towards the regional baron now questioned, Carlos Mazón. “He acknowledged mistakes and showed his face,” Almeida defended him. “There will be many people who say that this is not enough, but he took that step,” said the councilor while defending his continuity to “start the reconstruction.”
“We have to see what the situation is in Valencia, the most urgent thing is reconstruction. And the reconstruction also has to start from a certain stability of institutional government,” said the mayor of Madrid about his party colleague. Although he warned that “Mazón is supported by the PP because we understand that the priority is the reconstruction of Valencia”, but that from this moment “more errors are not admissible, he can no longer fail, there is no longer any margin.”
The interview also addressed the moments experienced as mayor in September 2023, when he made the decision to send an alert to mobile phones due to the red alert due to a DANA over Madrid. Almeida recalled how he came to speak with the League to suspend the Atlético match due to the possibility of flooding, material and personal damage that was transferred to him from Aemet. “There was no doubt in my mind. “It was what was happening at that time,” he said. And, although it did not rain at the time of the meeting, he did remember that DANA hit a town 30 kilometers from Madrid that same night, with floods and deaths.
The noise from the Bernabéu or the controversies with unaccompanied minors were commented on at some points in the interview – “Immigration is good, we need immigrants in Madrid,” the mayor even indicated – but the part that was most extended was in the which recounted more intimate aspects of their newly released marital life.
When living with his wife, he highlighted their lack of skill in the kitchen, stating that his mother-in-law had given him a food processor that they have not yet used. “We are incapable,” he admitted after confessing that “between the two of us we don’t add a fried egg.”
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