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 coalition in force since last year and that the former mayor, who resigned in October, had a surprising breakout just before summer.
“After a few months during which various erroneous decisions paralyzed the coalition, we return with the hope and conviction that together we can continue to move forward,” indicates without further explanation the text of the agreement, in which the distribution of advice respects the same principle. proportion as before the dissolution, with the integration of councilors from the three groups and up to four deputy mayors.
The letter does not mention anything else about the split of recent months, nor about the failed attempt by the former mayor, José Luis Labrador, to reach an agreement with the PP. Nor criticism from her former colleagues from Alicia Gallego, who was the second from Labrador to the PSOE and who will become the new councilor at the next plenary session, which will be held tomorrow Thursday. The mayor of Más Madrid until now, Silvia Masiá, resigns for professional reasons, as the party explains, and gives way to Patricia Ibáñez.
The agreement puts an end to several months of uncertainty in Manzanares, a mountain tourist municipality of more than 9,300 inhabitants and with a turbulent political history since the 90s, in which changes of government, motions of censure and transfuguismo were usual currency of change, as well as divergences between historical neighbors and new residents.
The PSOE has held the office of mayor since 2007, but only since 2019 with a clearly left-wing government. After last year’s elections, the other two coalition parties added more councilors than the Socialists themselves. To justify the break, Labrador complained in June of widespread “disloyalty” among the partners and, since then, he has governed precariously with only three advisors in a corporation of 13. In October, he threw in the towel.
