Begoña Villacís or how to be Piqué and Shakira at the same time

Begoña Villacís is determined to ensure that the end of Ciudadanos is full of unforgettable moments. A year ago, there was a possibility that the party would survive the 2023 municipal elections in Madrid. Not in a great state, but two or three councilors could be within his means, according to some polls, and allow him to be essential for the right to retain the majority in the City Council. In two months, the deputy mayor of Madrid has given the coup de grace to her party, it is true that not alone.

The Ciudadanos shipwreck is not a metaphor. Several members of the crew have decided to jump ship to seek accommodation in the Popular Party. Others because they leave politics. In the end, six of the eleven councilors have said goodbye. The most humiliating thing is that one of the councilors, Sofía Miranda, has publicly called for the re-election of the mayorJosé Luis Martínez Almeida, in an article in El Mundo.

Villacís presented on Tuesday the candidacy with which he will go in the May elections. Only four of the councilors elected on the 2019 list repeat. They asked him at the press conference about the deserters. “I spend as little time as possible thinking about other people. They are not Piqué. I don’t have to dedicate any song to them, ”he replied.

There are politicians who demonstrate their ability to see themselves from the outside, which allows them to accuse others of things they have done before. Villacís takes that ability to the limit. He is able to see himself from miles away. Perhaps he believes that the dissidents betrayed Ciudadanos. It is the same thing that she did when she met with the number three of the Popular Party in mid-January to explore the possibility of changing sides.

It is wrong to conspire against your own party. If someone goes off the tongue and tells it or the media finds out, the ridicule reaches proportions that are difficult to explain. If the alleged traitor aspires to head the formation lists again after the embarrassment, everything goes directly into the grotesque terrain.

Laughter was inevitable when it turned out that the ideas that swarmed inside his head were out of reality. “My intention is to be an internal current within the PP”, they heard him say at the game. Just saying that was enough for Isabel Díaz Ayuso to place the plague sign on her.

The escapist adventure ended when they told him that he had to discuss it with Ayuso and Almeida beforehand. They weren’t going to build him a walkway to get over the moat and the crocodiles were going to eat it raw the moment he set foot in the water.

Villacís has always had a high opinion of herself, a dream in which many Ciudadanos leaders moved after their excellent results in April and May 2019. In those regional and municipal elections, Albert Rivera ordered his regional and local leaders to They will agree with the PP. The party began to abandon its centrist ideas and sometimes surpass the PP on the right in opposition to the Government.

The vice mayor formed a good working relationship with Almeida, unlike the larval war of Díaz Ayuso and Aguado in the regional government. To distinguish herself, she opted for crazy and poorly cooked ideas. In some cases, directly raw. Like when she announced that she was working to get Madrid to have “the biggest Ferris wheel in Europe” (the one in London is 135 meters high).

The best thing is that he specified that it was a project that the city of Valencia had rejected: “Madrid is the refuge of what populism expels.” A very twisted logic. Populist measures – of interest above all to tourists – rejected by the populists and accepted in the name of the fight against populism. People had a great time.

A more serious matter occurred when he launched into announcing that Madrid should be a candidate to host the 2036 Olympic Games without first notifying the mayor, who promptly denied it. “You cannot create false expectations or generate another disappointment for the people of Madrid,” said Almeida, who recalled the three failed opportunities. The last one had been the “relaxing cup of café con leche”.

Villacís does believe that it is feasible if what it is about is hunting a headline to reinforce his public profile. Once again, he claimed to be against populism while he warmed the wishes of the city’s inhabitants with projects that he had not worked enough on or were just a fantasy.

Since January, the deputy mayor has generated less funny and more embarrassing headlines. She has been sinking little by little with each one of them. With so much flight from the game, including her own that she was left frustrated, she now only drives a Twingo, even though she has tried to paint it in Ferrari colours. First it was Piqué in search of a destination more up to her category, and then it ended up being the abandoned Shakira, but without a song.

Your voters might remind you: “Lots of gym, but work your brain a little too.”