The PP will present the budget of the Burgos City Hall in plenary session this Friday with the unfavorable report of the Finance Commission after, to the already predictable negative vote of the PSOE, will be added yesterday that of its government partners of Vox. The key is to remove the agreements worth 119,000 euros with three NGOs to help immigrants in the city that Abascal demanded and which the people first accepted in order to be able to do the accounts and which they rectified after the massive demonstration last Wednesday.
The city’s mayor, Cristina Ayala, guaranteed the funds on Thursday with an amendment responded to by another from Vox – serving only regularized migrants – and a transactional amendment presented by the PP in which it requested that the same amount be allocated articles for children, young people and adults. The president of the Finance Commission, Ángel Manzanedo (PP), explained that it was rejected because the amount allocated to NGOs has already been allocated to these areas. Manzanedo insisted it was time to find solutions before the plenary session, scheduled for Friday at 11:30 a.m.
Ayala (PP) already advanced last week his intention to try to push this budget to the ultimate political consequences. He in fact announced the possibility of submitting to a question of confidence to obtain his approval.
The law provides that, in this case, it will be automatically approved even if the majority votes against if a motion of censure is not presented within one month or if it does not succeed. That’s to say, The budgets proposed by the PP would only be rejected if the PSOE and Vox agreed and they propose a common candidate for mayor of Burgos, which seemed more than unlikely.
It is true that in the Cortes de Castilla y León, this is not the first time that the PSOE and Vox have agreed to oppose the PP. In fact, yesterday, the spokespersons of these groups attacked the President of the Council, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco: for what happened in the Burgos City Hall, in the socialist case, and for his position on the policy of immigration, in that of Abascal.
The leader of the PSCL Luis Tudanca, took advantage of his question to the head of the regional Executive to reproach him that his party “believes more in stability than in humanity”, and that without the “courageous response” of Société de Burgos, the mayor would have continued the withdrawal of aid to NGOs. For this reason, he asked him to “spare us even more blushes and to break with Vox in the town halls before it is they who break with the PP”.
The President of the Council, for his part, appealed to municipal autonomy and to the “tightness and different perceptions in the budget negotiations” and attributed to the “disastrous immigration policy of the government” all the controversy that arises in this subject. He also valued the work of third sector entities with whom “we have been before, now and we will be in the future”.
Vox spokesperson Juan García-Gallardo also asked Mañueco about his actions to promote orderly immigration, which led to a new bitter confrontation in which the first accused him of not “having words or morals” and boasted that “we renounced power for our principles”. Mañueco settled the debate by asking the Vox spokesperson to “stop demonizing NGOs and people.”
