The Popular Party broke the pact with Vox in Burgos City Hall after those of Santiago Abascal voted against their budget for include an item of 119,000 euros for NGOs who welcome immigrants
At the end of the debate on the 2025 budgets, the mayor, Cristina Ayala (PP), He recalled that he has more than two and a half years of mandate left “in a minority” and that “the people of Burgos demanded” during the May 2023 elections “a change in the face of left-wing politics”.
“This change came in July 2023 with the pact between PP and Vox with the objective of 15 people committed to a single north, political stability, working with unity of action and the identity of the central objectives of the city. This year and a half marked the beginning of this change, but a government partner unfortunately decided not to support the budget,” added the councilor.
The accounts for 2025, which envisage 250 million euros, included a fund of 119,000 for NGOs that welcome immigrants. Organizations which, Ayala stressed, contribute to creating “a more inclusive, tolerant and prosperous society”. “We would have liked to convince them” before breaking the pact, said the leader popularwho recalled that it had been “a year and five months of coordination and mutual support”, even if there were also problems with “insurmountable differences” which had to do with immigration and this is what led to the breaking of the pact.
For this reason, Ayala recognizes that the path on which he began must be modified but that “the course will remain unchanged” given the impossibility of making Vox understand that it was “neither fair, nor reasonable, nor acceptable , nor humanitarian” to leave without helping three municipal entities which have been collaborating with the Town Hall for years.
“It is time to reposition and modify the compass route by a few degrees to reach the same initial port. Because the storm forces us to follow other paths because we do not fear the majority. We must recognize it and take responsibility for it as soon as possible,” Ayala stressed.
“In politics, we must never leave aside the personal part,” declared the mayor, who thanked Raúl, until today Commerce Councilor, for his “tenacity and determination to defend” what he believes; to Marta, Culture Advisor, for making “everything easy” and for being able to accompany him “on a new path”; and Nacho, Police Advisor, who “in just a year and a half leaves a legacy that manifests itself in sincere respect” for the people who worked in the different areas he led, and because he showed it , just like his father is a man “who dresses from the feet up”. He also thanked the spokesperson for Vox and until today vice mayor, Fernando Martínez-Acítores.
Aid to NGOs
The recovery of aid to these NGOs – which the PP had initially vetoed – was key to the breakdown of the agreement. In this sense, Ayala recognized that “it was not fair to leave the organizations without any help.”
Likewise, he stressed that he does not understand why, in the Provincial Council of Burgos, Vox “voted a budget with an aid post” to Accem, now vetoed in the Municipal Council. He further recalled that there are other municipalities in Spain in which “PP and Vox have approved their budgets and nothing has been imposed on them.”
Ayala also emphasized that she was not fired from the government team to anyone, but it is Vox which “decided not to support” certain accounts on which the 15 advisors have been working for several months.
