The president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, denounced on Tuesday the “treat” of “taxes of all Spaniards” and described as an “embarrassing spectacle” what happened last night at the Finance Commission of the Congress of Deputies . which delayed the vote on the tax law by more than two hours after several defeats of the PSOE and its lack of support.
In statements to journalists, after a visit to the Roche Farma technological center in Madrid, the regional president He criticized the “everyone to please” “seven seats” budget game instead of “seeing how to direct all the income of the Spaniards to help the least protected areas of Spain and, in this case, in particular the Valencian Community”.
“I’m afraid that they are not there, they are in something else,” criticized the Madrid leader, who hopes that at the Conference of Presidents, convened on December 13 in Santander, priorities will be concentrated and that all the points will be discussed that the Autonomous Communities had requested.
“It is not a question of continuing to suffocate the rest of Spain, but of The concert and the independence quota are stopped to save all negotiations by seven votes what we see in Congress. And that we know how to reorient ourselves with the contribution of all Spaniards where it is most necessary”, declared the Madrid leader, who indicated that it was “necessary” but was “a little surprised” by the call now.
Madrid budget
The president of the Community also criticized the fact that the opposition parliamentary groups (Más Madrid, PSOE and Vox) reject “any proposal” coming from the regional government or the PP and was open to including “good” ideas in the budgets. Regional elections for 2025, which will be voted on at the end of the year in the Assembly.
“We’ve been like this all our lives. Every time we made a proposal, everyone rejected it. They came together to try to do it,” she said, when asked by reporters on the opposite position of these parties in the regional elections. accounts.
The Madrid leader defended him These are budgets “focused on the taxation of all Madrid residents“We want to continue to be a capital, human region, where moreover the important thing is this combination of business attraction, investments, but” we “We are a popular region serving the needs of everyone and for “It is essential to strengthen public health and education, transport, social services and the new proposals that we have added to continue moving forward”, he stressed.
Ayuso acknowledged that he did not expect them to support the budgets, but indicated that they were “open to good proposals from the groups included in the budgets.”
On Muface: “It’s crazy”
On the other hand, Ayuso described the central government’s plans with Muface as “madness” and warned that with that “they will block the system”.
“I just hope that the government will open its eyes and realize that They cannot further collapse the health system already so badly affected throughout Spain.. There is a lack of doctors, there is a lack of funding for certain treatments and for medicines… We see it in the case of oncology for example,” he noted.
According to him, it is “insane that a system” like the Spanish health system, “which is already in great demand throughout the country, can suddenly absorb a million and a half or two million civil servants.”
“They’re going to shut down the system, I don’t know if that’s what they’re looking for, but they’re going to get it. And who will be harmed? The usual ones, all the patients“, he then warned. In this sense, he indicated that in the Community of Madrid they increase by 120,000 inhabitants per year and that with Muface between 300,000 and 400,000 people would join public health, this which would mean “blocking waiting lists”. “harmful treatments”.
“It’s crazy. I don’t know where they want to take us, but of course there are already many officials who are totally against this. It worked and is going well. Why destroy things that work? “I don’t know how much can be done in terms of health in Spain,” he stressed.
Support public-private collaboration
The president also claimed public-private collaboration and asked that it not be interrupted “for ideological reasons” which prevent reaching all levels of society, with common solutions “to be able to meet all challenges” .
“We are here to help businesses, science, rigor, universities and startups to do their work with complete freedom,” emphasized Ayuso, who stressed the importance for administrations not to make bad decisions and to collaborate so that “Innovate, take risks and undertake things, it’s worth it”.
