A mascletá in Madrid? This is how Almeida will bring Las Fallas after promising it to the mayoress of Valencia

The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, will fulfill his promise and confirms that there will be mascletá in the capital of Spain. This was stated this Monday at the press conference after the first Governing Board of his new term after winning the municipal elections on May 28 with an absolute majority.

It is an initiative with which the mayor committed himself on March 15 during his visit to the Almirante Cadarso commission during the Fallas in Valencia, where, in addition, he was able to enjoy the pyrotechnic shot from the balcony of the City Hall.

Almeida agrees to organize a 'mascletà' in Madrid if the Popular Party candidate for Mayor of Valencia becomes mayoress in the May elections pic.twitter.com/o8mKvkB5jS

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At that time, Martínez-Almeida told María José Catalá, at that time a PP candidate for mayor of the capital of the Community, that if he won the elections and governed in the capital of Turia, he would celebrate the mascletá in Madrid. “We are going to celebrate in a big way, because I made the commitment last year with María José that if she were mayor there would also be a mascletá in Madrid,” said the Madrid mayor..

“Madrileños will like it a lot”

Now, after the elections, Martínez-Almeida was determined to fulfill his commitment. “It is a good way to strengthen relations between Madrid and Valencia and bring one of the most significant events that the city of Valencia has,” he said on Monday..

In this sense, the popular mayor predicted that the mascletá will be one of the events that “Madrileños will like a lot” and that, at the same time, “it will make us Madrileños go even more than we already go to Valencia”.

Likewise, the popular mayor stressed that Madrid is the capital of Spain and, therefore, “we are open to the entire national territory”. In this sense, he pointed out that “practically every day, we receive an infinite number of activities from other places”.