following the renouncement of maestre and other 5 councillors members of podemos and also members of the municipal group of ahora madrid to run in the podemos process to select the candidates to the 2019 municipal election (pending potential mergings into a wider candidature), preferring to directly do it instead in the más madrid platform around carmena, all 6 councillors' individual memberships to podemos were suspended in a precautionary basis in november 2018 after a request by julio rodríguez.