MADRID Former Judge Manuela Carmena left now become mayor of Madrid, as it advanced yesterday at a press conference after reaching an agreement with the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), which will support his inauguration, but did not enter the government .
The future mayor, 71, was the surprise in Spain in municipal elections last May 24, which concurred with the now Madrid political platform, composed of leftist parties as we considered “brother” of the Greek Syriza.
“We are with some excitement at the prospect of a change after 25 years of PP government (in Madrid),” the progressive candidate in reference to the conservative Popular Party, the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy.
Carmena won the May 24, 20 councilors at the town hall of the Spanish capital, one less than those obtained by the PP.
The loss of the absolute majority by Rajoy Party, led by Esperanza Aguirre in Madrid, led the search for an agreement between Carmena and the PSOE, initialed on Thursday.
“We need ways of understanding that will go further because it can not be otherwise,” he said yesterday Antonio Miguel Carmona, head of list of the PSOE in the city of Madrid.
In Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain, also will head the council a membership of Podemos political platform. The mayor will antidesahucios activist Ada Colau, Barcelona in Comú candidate who won the most votes in the municipal elections, although far from an absolute majority.
The constitution of 8000 122 Spanish municipalities will take place 20 days after local and regional elections held in the country in which we and the emergence of other emerging party, the centrist Citizens, left a fragmented political map than ever in the country.
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