The Popular Party accepted the request of Vox, its government partner at Burgos City Hall, to remove from the 2025 municipal budgets the economic items intended to help NGOs that welcome and assist migrants in Burgos, which were supported this year with 119 000 euros. .
The spokesperson of the government team, Andrea Ballesteros (PP), explained during the press conference after the Local Government Council that the only thing that the 2025 budget will include will be a position to meet the obligation derived from this year, since 30% of the aid is awaiting payment, waiting for the expenses to be justified.
The measure affects entities such as ACCEM, Burgos Acoge and Atalaya Intercultural, which in Burgos welcome migrants and which last year signed new agreements with the City Hall worth 119,000 euros, and which will see this aid removed by 2025.
“It was a request from Vox during the negotiation of the budgets and the PP does not agree, because these NGOs do a very good job, but it is a coalition government and the budget that we present does not is surely not ideal, even for the PP even for Vox,” explained Ballesteros.
The spokesperson for the government team insisted that the draft budget, presented this week at a press conference by councilor Ángel Manzanedo, is the result of “negotiation and not blackmail or a threat” and assured that the PP had negotiated but that it had not demanded anything in this negotiation.
He also did not want to give any explanations on the continuation of the aid of more than 19,000 euros to Cáritas, also for the reception and assistance to immigrants and referred to what the advisors explain from Vox.
Ballesteros clarified that in the draft budget, aid for international cooperation remains at the same amount as this year, which was also halved at the request of Vox, remaining at less than 500,000, during the negotiation of the 2024 budget, the first of the PP-Vox coalition government after the 2023 elections.
