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. At her side, 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 that is called to be its 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 seated to his right and they are Emilio Delgado and María Pastor, both with the vitola 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. They have different profiles, equally differentiated discursive styles and will also serve as a draw 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 bite 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.. It can also be the spearhead to 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 native who in recent years found in the figure of García an option beyond the PSOE and without the stridency of Podemos..

The Delgado-Pastor duo 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 the forcefulness of her arguments.. So far this term, they remember, he has already entered into parliamentary body to body with the Minister of Education, Emilio Viciana..

Héctor Tejero, a career scientist and star signing in the Errejón era, who is responsible for the group's Ecological Transition policies, will also play an important role.. Although he does not appear in the first step after Bergerot, as may be the case of Pastor and Delgado, no one is aware that the green voter 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 a member 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.