It is unusual to see politicians participate in shows like El Hormiguero outside of an election campaign. This is why this Tuesday was surprising the presence on the air of the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, interviewed by Pablo Motos, at a particularly complicated moment for his party due to the political crisis linked to the tragedy of the DANA in Valencia.
The presenter, originally from Valencia, went directly to the subject from the start of his questions, questioning the mayor about the management of the PP in the face of the alerts, then about Feijóo’s attitude towards the regional baron now questioned, Carlos Mazón . “He recognized his mistakes and showed his face,” Almeida defended. “Many people will say that it is not enough, but he took this step,” declared the city 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 must also start from a certain stability of the 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 “no more errors are admissible, he can no longer If you fail, there is no more margin.”
The interview also discusses the moments experienced as mayor in September 2023, when he made the decision to send an alert to cell phones due to the red alert due to a DANA in 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 transferred to him from Aemet. “There was no doubt in my mind. “That’s what was happening at the time,” he said. And even though it wasn’t raining at the time of the meeting, he remembers that DANA hit a town 30 kilometers from Madrid the same night, causing flooding and deaths.
The noise from the Bernabéu or the controversies with unaccompanied minors were commented on at certain moments of the interview – “Immigration is a good thing, we need immigrants in Madrid”, even indicated the mayor – but the The most extensive part was that which recounted more intimate aspects of their newly liberated married life.
When he lived with his wife, he pointed out their lack of cooking skills, saying his mother-in-law gave him a food processor that they did not yet use. “We are incapable,” he admitted after admitting that “between the two of us, we do not add an egg to the dish.”
