“This is a matter for the legal services, they are the ones who must analyze the filing of an appeal, and more than one appeal before the court Supreme Courtwhich is a technically very complex issue,” the adviser said. Thus, he explained, if the legal services consider that the appeal is viable, they will present it because it is a “procedural defect that can be corrected.”
The mayor considers that the current model of the city is “a success” and something “indisputable”. “We are facing a model that is neither that of Vox, nor that of the left of Madrid City Hall“, which allows, on the one hand, that we are economically the economic engine of Spain and that we continue to grow, and that from the point of view of environmental sustainability, we have never had better data on pollution,” he said. To this, he added that there is “the best data” on pollution in the city and that a system of alternatives to the use of private vehicles has been generated through the Municipal Transport Company (EMT).
“We are convinced that this model works, that it is a model specific to the city of Madrid and (…) the people of Madrid breathe much better air than the people of Paris, Rome or Berlin,” he said. “As long as the sentence is not final, all the articles continue to apply,” he recalled. Almeida in an interview with Wave Madridwho assured that his Government municipal was subjected to “pressure from Voice” and on the left, who believe that “it is never enough and who intend to sacrifice the economy in the name of sustainability.”
Vox demands his resignation
Vox spokesperson at Madrid City Hall, Javier Ortega Smithdemanded the mayor’s resignation, José Luis Martinez-Almeidaa “day of joy” after the decision of the Superior Court of Justice (TSJM) and announced that they would study the provisional execution of the sentence. After these statements, the mayor recalled that the people of Madrid had given him an absolute majority and said that the spokesman “lives obsessed” with him.
“With all due respect, the criteria of the 750,000 people of Madrid who voted for the Popular Party deserve more respect from me than the criteria of Javier Ortega. I believe that this is no longer a political issue, I believe that it is a personal problem with me for several years, no one has insulted or disqualified me more frequently and more crudely than Javier Ortega Smith,” he criticized.
On the other hand, the spokespeople for the PSOE and Más Madrid, Reyes Maroto and Rita Maestre, asked him to appeal this decision of the Justice. In this context, Almeida welcomed the recognition that the regulation “worked”. “I am happy that they recognize that a model different from theirs, profoundly different from that of the left of the city of Madrid, says that it works, and it seems to me that they should say it publicly in front of all the citizens of Madrid, because for years, “he has been called a negationist”, he reproached.
