The respective disputes that PP and Vox have maintained throughout this year in Madrid have culminated in a surprise divorce in the Community and in a rupture announced at the City Council. So both the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, will have to extend their budgets for 2023. Something that, in practice, means 3,135 million euros less than what was calculated. initially. 2,705 to the first and 430 to the second. A significant amount, especially as it is an election year
The president of the Community has criticized in recent days the "insane" attitude that Vox adopted when knocking down the regional Budgets for 2023 and has blamed them for the fact that "even the worst partners" of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, have been at Live up to your commitments.
In Ayuso's opinion, "as soon as there is normality, Vox disappears" and he does not understand that if things "are going well in Madrid" why they have acted in this way. The president has branded her rejection of the Budgets as "insane", even more so with the "direct attacks" that Madrid is receiving from the central government.
"I think that even Sánchez's worst partners have lived up to their own commitments (...) The people with whom he had to agree on the Budgets have not been as up-to-date as those who agreed with Mr. Sánchez", he has influenced.
Thus, he regretted that millions of euros are going to be lost in "reducing waiting lists, aid for large families, Primary Care, dining scholarships, early care or for day centers and nursing homes." All this, he has remarked, due to the "abandonment of Vox" that has left all these measures "in the dark".
The Madrid City Council Treasury and Personnel delegate, Engracia Hidalgo (PP), stated this Thursday that the capital will have 430 million euros less in 2023 than it would have had if Vox had supported the budgets for next year, which the Government of PP and Citizens had a project in 5,703 million euros.
Hidalgo has detailed it in the press conference after an extraordinary Government Meeting held this Thursday, in which an agreement has been approved that is "necessary" in the event that there are no new budgets for the city, something that has happened for first time in the mandate of the bicolor government that started in 2019.
The 'popular' delegate, who has censored the "lack of institutional respect" and "lack of respect for the people of Madrid" by Vox by not wanting to "even" sit down with the Treasury area to learn about the 2023 budget project , has reviewed the consequences of the extension of the budgets, such as the nominative subsidies of the social field that affect 35,000 people, or that the receipt of European funds will be put "at risk".
