At a press breakfast organized by Nueva Economía Fórum and sponsored by the private medical group Asisa, Más Madrid's spokesperson in the Assembly of Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, presented the main points of her party's strategy for the upcoming regional elections. The event, held at The Palace hotel, served to showcase the party's internal unity, with a public embrace between presidential hopeful Mónica García and Emilio Delgado, who will ultimately take the third spot on the regional list and be included in the congressional candidacy.
Bergerot's speech focused on criticizing the management of the current President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, whom she described as a "polemicist in decline" and a "president without management skills," highlighting her "worst moment" following her recent trip to Mexico. Más Madrid aims to present itself as the progressive alternative capable of "transforming Madrid for the better" against a political "exhaustion" they attribute to Ayuso.
Más Madrid's central proposal to address "major social emergencies" such as the "housing crisis" and the "deterioration of public services" is to end what they consider Madrid's "tax haven" status. To achieve this, they propose restoring a "progressive" tax system that, according to their calculations, could generate up to 20 billion euros. These funds would be allocated to increasing public investment in housing, healthcare, education, and transportation.
Details of this roadmap will be revealed in the autumn, but its main pillars include an increase in personal income tax for incomes exceeding 100,000 euros annually, as well as wealth and inheritance taxes. Furthermore, they propose "taxing heavily" and even "expropriating" large property owners, setting price "caps" for rent and purchase, closing "illegal" tourist apartments, and building "tens of thousands" of public housing units. Improvements to Primary Care are also planned with more mental health professionals, physiotherapists, and other specialists.
For these proposals to materialize, Más Madrid needs to achieve a sufficient electoral result to unseat the People's Party, likely in coalition with Vox. Bergerot expressed optimism, predicting that Ayuso will not secure an absolute majority, similar to her Andalusian counterpart, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla. "We are prepared to compete, we are prepared to win, and we are prepared to reverse 30 years of neoliberal governments that have devastated public services and the idea of the common good," she stated, marking the beginning of the electoral campaign.
