The request for protection made to Santiago Abascal for the national leader of Vox to intercede with Javier Ortega Smith last week evidenced the discomfort with which José Luis Martínez-Almeida (PP) is witnessing the stalling of his draft of the 2023 municipal budgets of his coalition government with Ciudadanos. But far from improving, the week has started even worse for the interests of the mayor of the capital.
In the first place because Más Madrid, PSOE and Grupo Mixto have registered this Monday amendments to the entire 2023 budget of the City Council, the last of the mandate of José Luis Martínez-Almeida (PP) and Begoña Villacís (Cs).
And then because Vox has decided to stand firm in its castling as long as the City Council does not approve a moratorium on restrictions on the mobility of vehicles based on their environmental label.
Ortega Smith considers himself reinforced in his position "now that the mayor has shown us that it is legal and possible" to make such a moratorium -in reference to the one that the Government of PP and Ciudadanos hopes to approve in plenary session on the 20th to that the vehicles of carriers with a B label can access the Central District until December 2023-.
For all this, Vox confirms that it will in no way support budgets that "include more than 400 million euros collected based on the theft that fines and restrictions entail", and that "implicitly carries that lie of the 2030 Agenda".
From the left, Más Madrid has registered 196 partial amendments, which deal with the problem of housing prices in Madrid, proposing, for example, aid to owners who rent their homes to people under 35 years of age at a lower price than market; and on other issues such as free food in nursery schools.
They also seek the amendments to "immediately" restore the electricity supply in the Cañada Real, or talk about health and mental health, with more than one million euros so that psychologists from the Madrid City Council can go to the institutes.
The leader of the opposition, and spokesperson for Más Madrid, Rita Maestre, has justified the amendment to the entirety as it deals with budgets "that do not advance, do not improve and do not contain a single great or small transformation" for the city, and They also demonstrate the "terrible economic management of the Government of PP and Cs", since when the coalition arrived the capital had "healthy accounts with savings of almost a billion euros" and the two-color Executive "is going to leave in less six million euros" that amount.
From the PSOE, its spokesperson, Mar Espinar, has argued the amendment to the entirety on the basis that it is a budget that "was born with the only hope of being extended and without any ambition to address the problems that the people of Madrid are going to have during this fall and this winter.
In addition, with the "hope" that Almeida "will be kind enough to listen even a little to the opposition", the PSOE has presented 175 partial amendments that seek to "rebalance the districts a little more, make a commitment to public services that are very necessary in districts where they do not have, for example, police stations, fire stations, nursery schools, libraries".
Councilor Luis Cueto has been in charge of explaining the amendment to the entire Mixed Group "because the debt is not reduced, investment decreases and spending decreases in real terms by growing less than inflation."
"These are bad budgets," Cueto summarized, and added that the Mixed Group has "great legitimacy" because, "at great political cost" for them, last year they did agree on the budgets with PP and Ciudadanos. A movement by which they admit to feeling "cheated" before the breach of several of the closed commitments.
