The mayor of Burgos, the ‘popular’ Cristina Ayala, has lost the question of confidence held this Thursday in the municipal plenary session, with 16 votes against and 11 supports, all from her political group, after Vox refused to approve the budget with the PP that included NGOs that worked with migrants and that Ayala expelled the four councilors of the far-right party. “Today I lose the confidence of the plenary session, but I begin the process that will result in the approval of the Budget for 2025. Today Burgos and the people of Burgos win. That is my goal,” Cristina Ayala stated at the end of the plenary session.
From now on, the opposition must have one month of time to structure a motion of censure – which is not going to happen – and then the process to approve the Popular Party Budget for 2025 will continue. It is still not clear if after That month the approval will be final or initial and it will be necessary to submit it to public information. The mayor of Burgos has announced that she is going to request a report from the secretary so that he can “chart the path from now on.”
“It is out of our reach. It will be the secretary who will establish in black and white what procedure to follow,” said Cristina Ayala, who has assured that the doctrine is “very divided” and that there is no “clear” application of how to approve these Budgets. “Without any controversy and nothing more than complying with current legislation, we will ask the secretary to make a report and we will comply with that legality,” he stated in a press conference after the plenary session.
The spokesperson for the Socialist Municipal Group and former mayor Daniel de la Rosa has promised that his opposition will be “inflexible” as long as the Popular Party “intends to continue governing” as if it had an absolute majority. “Aren’t you even going to tell us what you plan to do and listen to the opposition before taking the opinion to the commission? They are going to see what it means to govern as a minority like we did,” said De la Rosa, who predicts that the ‘popular’ will regret the “contempt” held towards the socialists since the beginning of the mandate.
The PSOE calls for the resignation of Cristina Ayala
De la Rosa has also asked Cristina Ayala to resign, even after her turn to speak and with the microphone turned off. “Assume your failure and make way for the next one.” [en el PP]. “Someone has to be there to reach agreements with the opposition,” he claimed.
The socialist leader recalled the conditions he imposed last week: restoring aid for Development Cooperation and for exhumations and Democratic Memory work that were eliminated last year and a commitment to agree at 50% on the next modification of budget credit. “Is that a leonine condition? They have 11 councilors out of 27, let’s see if they find out! We, twelve; I am almost generous making this offer,” said Daniel de la Rosa.
For his part, the former vice mayor of Burgos Fernando Martínez-Acitores, from Vox, has opted for “a constructive opposition” that thinks “about the people of Burgos” but has guaranteed that the four Vox councilors will also be “tough and forceful” where appropriate, since his three campaign axes will prevail: Family, Security and Infrastructure policies.
Martínez-Acitores has considered it “impossible” to agree on a motion of censure with the PSOE when its municipal leader “is content with kicking Vox out of the government team.” “What a mean objective and how undemocratic,” said the Vox spokesperson, who accused his socialist counterpart of speaking “for social networks.”
Ayala asks PSOE and Vox to put in writing that there will be no motion of censure
Cristina Ayala has asked De la Rosa and Martínez-Acitores not to “waste” the entire month of the deadline if they are not going to sign a motion of censure. “That they put it in writing so that the city does not have to spend a month on this procedure,” he claimed after the plenary session, at a press conference, in which he clarified that it is necessary for one of the groups to put their intention in writing. not to participate in a motion of censure.
The mayor has thanked Vox for the “loyal” work of the last year and a half and predicts an opposition along the same lines. Regarding the PSOE, Cristina Ayala has reproached Daniel de la Rosa for saying that his opposition is “posturing” and “victimization.” “Is it a course that teaches them [Pedro] Sanchez in Ferraz? He has come to have the political role in which the citizens have placed him. Having won the elections, being the opposition,” criticized the Burgos councilor, who has opened herself to negotiating with both Vox and the PSOE.
“How can we only agree with you? [en referencia al PSOE]? We will agree with whoever is willing to approve each city project. Isn’t the group that sits there democratic? [en alusión a Vox]. No global pacts or blackmail. We will go project by project and they will have to decide if they want to approve them or not,” said Cristina Ayala, who has insisted before the media: “Our idea is to agree on the projects, I don’t know if one by one or in small groups; but agree on each project.”
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