The vice-president of the Junta de Castilla y León, Isabel Blanco Llamas, insisted on her respect for municipal autonomy regarding the decision of the government team of Burgos City Hall to suspend aid allocated to NGOs that provide aid to migrants, despite what guaranteed the support of the Regional Executive to these organizations and, as defended by the spokesperson of the Council, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, “the coherence of principles” in their budgets.
Blanco Llamas and Fernández Carriedo thus responded to the situation in Burgos after the announcement of the withdrawal of this aid in 2025 and which led to a massive demonstration in the city against the municipal decision, a measure that emanates from the government agreement signed in the capital of Burgos between PP and Vox.
However, regarding the possibility that the elimination of this aid is one of the conditions posed by Vox to negotiate the Régie’s budget, Fernández Carriedo recalled that over the last two years they have been maintained despite the sharing of the government with that of Abascal. “We maintain a consistency of principles, that is what inspired us in these budgets and what continues to inspire us when we try to discuss the budgets for the year 2025.”
For her part, the vice-president and advisor for Family and Equal Opportunities reiterated her support for the work carried out by NGOs, with whom she also assured to maintain a “fundamental” relationship of “collaboration” for “years “.
In this way, he guaranteed his support in the work that these organizations carry out daily with the most vulnerable people in the Community, but he insisted that each municipality has its autonomy, an axis that he used to affirm that he cannot intervene in the decisions that the Burgos government team adopts regarding its budgets.
“We collaborate with the entities through different programs and, of course, we will continue to collaborate with the entities within our scope of action, these are the town halls, in this case, those who prepare their budgets according to needs and it is they who must explain their budgets in this regard,” he defended.
In this sense, Blanco Llamas highlighted the “collaboration” and “continuous and permanent” dialogue with NGOs to promote different programs.
