Bergerot’s Praetorian Guard: this is the second line of Más Madrid after the García era

The front row of parliamentary benches usually make things quite clear. In the Madrid Assembly, in front of President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Mónica García has been with her team for the last four years. Next to her, her trusted man, Javier Padilla, who has gone with her to the Ministry of Health. Manuela Bergerot has taken over. And it is in that first row of the new bench where the one who is called to be her praetorian guard in the coming years is drawn.

At this stage there are two people who have gained weight in the organization and will have to cover the spaces that Bergerot does not reach, called to fight in the plenary sessions to emulate García and represent the alternative on the left to Ayuso. They are sitting on his right and are Emilio Delgado and María Pastor, both with the label of deputy spokespersons. They form the first circle of power in the parliamentary group at a delicate moment for the party: they must recover from the goodbye of their most visible face and return to focus with a new team.

Delgado and Pastor will play complementary roles. Have different profiles, equally differentiated discursive styles and will also serve as a claim for different voters, although always within the spectrum of the left. While Pastor will focus on educational issues that can convince the niche of young, urban and progressive families; Delgado can do the same among the classic left-wing voter from traditionally working-class areas to moder to the PSOE.

Delgado’s profile can serve, as the party believes, precisely to reduce that gap between the results achieved by the party in the capital versus the regional periphery. He can also be the spearhead for attack fundamental fiefdoms for the left such as the southern red belt or the Henares Corridor. For its part, Pastor’s profile can be especially useful to support the vote of that more urban and progressive Madrid resident who in recent years found in the figure of García an option beyond the PSOE and without the stridency of Podemos.

The duo Delgado-Shepherd It will cover, as Más Madrid sources specify, different areas, equally strategic for training. Just as in the past García pressured the regional Executive with the health issue, Delgado will work on neighborhood networks and “traditionally working-class” issues, while the defense of public education will be one of the strong points in Pastor’s speech.

His style is also opposite: the media impact that Delgado has had in recent months, since an intervention of his in the Móstoles plenary session in front of Vox went viral, is contrasted with Pastor, who maintains a more sober profile. However, the sources consulted highlight her capacity as a parliamentary speaker and her forcefulness in her arguments. So far this term, remember, she has already entered the body to body parliamentarian with the Minister of Education, Emilio Viciana.

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It will also play an important role Hector Tejero, career scientist and star signing in the Errejón era, who is responsible for the group’s Ecological Transition policies. Although he does not appear in the first step after Bergerot, as may be the case with Pastor and Delgado, it escapes no one that the green voter It is another of the axes of Más Madrid’s success. This is where Tejero will have to play a role, as he has already had public projection in this sense in different events during García’s time and who, likewise, is part of the leadership of the parliamentary group managing a “strategic” area.

With all this, Más Madrid faces the challenge of maintaining the focus that they had in the Madrid Assembly at the time of the Ayuso-García duels and that benefited both, especially before their respective electorates. The risk that the maneuver for Más Madrid has, however, is that the new team will not be able to retain focus and the position of alternative to the PP on the left will be diluted in favor of a PSOE with a rising figure, as is Juan Lobato.

The front row of parliamentary benches usually make things quite clear. In the Madrid Assembly, in front of President Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Mónica García has been with her team for the last four years. Next to her, her trusted man, Javier Padilla, who has gone with her to the Ministry of Health. Manuela Bergerot has taken over. And it is in that first row of the new bench where the one who is called to be her praetorian guard in the coming years is drawn.