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) and the parties

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, Podemos and PUM+J joined forces.

History

On 28 June 2014 "Municipalia", later renamed Ganemos Madrid, appeared. The goal of this platform was to ''gain

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as a citizens' horizontal initiative formed by a confluence of people, groups, parties and social movements''. On 29 January 2014, Ganemos Madrid confirmed that their goal was the confluence of different

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forces to stand for the

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as an instrumental party. On 6 March Ahora Madrid was presented as the instrumental party formed by this confluence of citizens, associations, movements and parties. Although the most members of United Left Madrid (IUCM) supported participating in Ahora Madrid, after an internal crisis, the majority sector, including the

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and a group of independents that later founded Convocatoria por Madrid, decided to abandon IUCM and join Ahora Madrid. IUCM finally decided not to participate in Ahora Madrid or similar lists. On 30 March the results of the primaries, in which over 15 000 people participated through online voting, were made public. Manuela Carmena was elected by a large majority as candidate for mayor, Nacho Murgui (ex-president of the Regional Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Madrid) ranks second in the list,

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(

) 3rd, Mauricio Valiente (exIUCM,

) 4th, Rita Maestre ( Podemos and Youth Without a Future.) 5th, Pablo Carmona (Ganemos Madrid) 6th, Marta Higueras 7th, Pablo Soto 8th, Celia Mayer (Ganemos Madrid and member of the Patio Maravillas) 9th and Jorge García (exIU, Convocatoria por Madrid) 10th. In the

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, it gained 20 seats and was the second most voted party behind People's Party, which gained 21 seats. The 20 city councillors were elected in the following order: Manuela Carmena, Nacho Murgui, Inés Sabanés, Mauricio Valiente, Rita Maestre, Pablo Carmona, Marta Higueras, Pablo Soto, Celia Mayer, Jorge García Castaño, Marta Gómez Lahoz, Guillermo Zapata, Rommy Arce, Carlos Sánchez Mato, Montserrat Galcerán, Francisco Pérez Ramos, Esther Gómez, Javier Barbero, Yolanda Rodríguez and José Manuel Calvo. The elaboration of the program was open to all citizens and a lot of the suggestions were included in the final version of the program. The primaries also covered a vote to choose which of the measures from the program of Ahora Madrid should take priority and "should be introduced within the first 100 days of municipal administration".

Electoral performance

References

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