The representative of Sánchez's government in Madrid whom Ayuso doesn't want to see.

MadridFrancisco Martín (Madrid, 1981) has been representing Pedro Sánchez's government in one of the most hostile territories for two years. This forestry engineer, a member of the PSOE for 25 years and a great fan of theater and tap dancing, went from working behind the scenes at Moncloa to play a leading role in the socialists' battle with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, against whom he acts as a battering ram in the Community of Madrid. "Another one who go ahead", celebrated the right-hand man of the Madrid president, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, this week in X after the judge Juan Carlos Peinado will charge Martín in the Begoña Gómez caseThe judicial move comes a couple of months after Ayuso announced that she was breaking off relations with the Spanish government delegate for having "crossed boundaries that are unacceptable" by accusing her of "practically murder" for the Deaths in nursing homes during Covid-19. The Madrid president literally doesn't want to see him anymore, and excludes him from the region's institutional events.

This 2025, Martín has not received an invitation to attend the tribute to the victims of 11-M or the celebration of the Day of the Community of Madrid. "May 2nd is not Ayuso's birthday party," Martín replied. In this scenario of political tension taken to the extreme, the delegate in Madrid has made a place for himself in the new executive of the Madrid PSOE of Minister Óscar López as Secretary of Institutional Policy. While for Ayuso he is a "political commissar," several sources from the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) in Madrid consulted by ARA describe him as "irreproachable" and "very committed to everything he does." Some of his colleagues emphasize that his career goes beyond earning merit for the party—in the five years prior to making the leap to regional politics, he held a senior position in the Presidency of the Spanish government and was previously Director of Administration and Finance for the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party)—and recall that in 2012 he worked in one of the regions. He worked on civil reconstruction with the public company Tragsa.

"His outlook left a mark on him. He is very supportive," notes a source from Ferraz, where his views on the role of EH Bildu and ERC (Spanish Nationalist Party) in the governability of the state were not so well received. Martín had to apologize for saying that in recent years "they have done much more for Spain than all the patriotic supporters combined."