The mayor of Burgos, Cristina Ayala, and her PP team, have decided rectify and recover the agreements with Accem, Burgos Acoge and Atalaya Internacional which had been excluded at the request of Vox in the negotiation to advance the Budgets. A decision he takes after social pressure in the streets of the city.
It’s a decision”very attentive” after several hours of meeting with “his team and other people”, as the city councilor defended. Ayala accepted the “mistake” and assured that “rectification is wise.” The mayor announced that the three organizations will have “the same amounts” as in 2024.
For his part, the spokesperson for the Municipal Group Vox at Burgos City Hall, Fernando Martinez Acitores, announced that his party would present a transaction to the PP amendment in the sense that aid to Accem, Atalaya and Burgos Acoge “will always be oriented towards legal immigration”“.
This is an “exclusive” decision of the PP group because “the conviction the reality was to maintain the aid that appeared in the draft budget“. Ayala assured that he wanted a city in which “tolerance and welcome” prevail to make “a better Burgos”, while trusting that the government pact with Vox “don’t break.”
The mayor received “numerous calls and suggestions” from people who asked him “not to withdraw the agreement” recognize that yesterday’s demonstration was “very transversal” and reflected, in his opinion, that what “Burgosian society wanted” was not being done in this regard.
The means to achieve this will come through an amendment which will be presented next Tuesday to the Finance Commission. This will include maintaining an economic position with the three organizations vetoed by Vox “with the same figures” as in 2024. The PP team now hopes that Vox understands this decision.
Ayala conveyed this information to the provincial president, Borja Suárez; to the regional president of the PP, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco; and the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra. In this sense, he recognized that the leader of the party at the regional level, Fernández Mañueco, and the secretary general, showed him their conviction that “this was the step that had to be taken”.
The mayor highlighted the work carried out by PP and Vox after the summer. There was joint collaboration on the budget, which was described as “very good for getting out of absolute paralysis.” The mayor maintains the need to approve the budget for 2025, either through the ordinary route or through “a question of confidence”.
In this sense, he reiterated that his group did not agree with the “imposition” of Vox because it considers that the work of third sector organizations is “fundamental”. In addition, with the elimination of the agreements, “it was going to be very difficult to take on” all the work of the three Town Hall entities. “since it’s networking.”
