The government crisis in Manzanares el Real is coming to an end. PSOE-Progresistas, Candidature of Unidad Vecinal (supported by Podemos and Izquierda Unida) and Más Madrid announced this morning the agreement by which they reissue the left-wing coalition that had been operating since last year and that the previous mayor, who resigned in October , broke surprisingly at the gates of summer.
“After a few months in which various wrong decisions have paralyzed the coalition, we return with the hope and conviction that together we can continue moving forward,” says the text of the agreement without further explanation, in which the distribution of councils respects the same proportion as before the breakup, with the integration of councilors from the three groups and up to four deputy mayors.
The letter does not mention anything else regarding the schism of recent months, nor the frustrated attempt by the former mayor, José Luis Labrador, to reach an agreement with the PP. Nor about the criticism of her former colleagues by Alicia Gallego, who was Labrador’s second in the PSOE and who will become the new councilor in the next plenary session, which will be held tomorrow, Thursday. The mayor of Más Madrid until now, Silvia Masiá, resigns for work reasons, as explained in the party, and gives way to Patricia Ibáñez.
The agreement puts an end to several months of uncertainty in Manzanares, a tourist mountain municipality of more than 9,300 inhabitants and with a checkered political history since the 90s, in which changes of government, motions of censure and transfuguismo were currency of habitual change, as well as the divergences between historical neighbors and new residents.
The PSOE has held the mayor’s office since 2007, but only since 2019 with a clearly left-wing government. After last year’s elections, the other two parties in the coalition added more councilors than the socialists themselves. To justify the breakup, Labrador complained in June of a diffuse “disloyalty” of the partners, and since then he had been governing precariously with only three councilors in a corporation of 13. In October he threw in the towel.
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