Vaudeville, circus… This is how the spokespersons for the municipal groups of PSOE and Con Podemos-IU have referred to this morning’s extraordinary plenary session called for the approval of the 2024 budgets of the Seville City Council. These epithets described a vote whose outcome was determined in advance – all political groups were going to oppose it – and which was the necessary procedure so that the mayor of Seville, the popular José Luis Sanz, could announce the presentation of a question of confidence and remove the ghost of Vox’s entry into the corporation. The councilor announced in his last intervention in the plenary session that he would accept this option, which will be debated this Friday, in another extraordinary plenary session. This is the same strategy that the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, already followed, and that was also put into practice by his predecessor, Ada Colau.
It was the mayor himself who at the beginning of May, when Vox confirmed that they had held negotiations for his incorporation into the Seville Government – where the PP governs in a minority – and that the popular ones denied, announced that he would re-present the 2024 budgets – to which He resigned at the beginning of the year after confirming that he was not going to have support from the three opposition groups to extend those for 2023, prepared by the PSOE, as a preliminary step to present a motion of confidence and thus force its approval. immediate. That motion will not prosper this Friday, because all the parties have announced that they will oppose it. From then on, the rest of the political forces have one month to present a motion of censure, which cannot be raised either because they do not have the absolute majority necessary to do so. If no formation applied, the accounts would go ahead. “He is a lucky mayor, because we are never going to agree with Vox,” acknowledged the socialist spokesperson and former councilor of the capital, Antonio Muñoz, in reference to the council arithmetic where the PP governs in a minority with 14 councilors, by 12 from the PSOE, three from Vox and two from Con Podemos-IU.
“This city is going to have a budget, and the only option to not have it is for you to present a motion of censure. I encourage you to start explaining to the people of Seville what are the details of the motion of censure that you are going to propose together with Vox and Podemos,” Sanz told Muñoz, after all the groups voted no to some budgets. of 1.3 billion euros and announce the motion of confidence. The route explored by the mayor will delay the approval of the accounts until July, leaving a scant margin of half a year for their complete execution. All at the cost of the enormous political wear and tear that it means for the mayor, not only the loss of two decisive votes in the same week, but also leaving him in stand by the management of the fourth most important city in Spain.
This morning’s debate has not revolved, however, around the content of these accounts, but rather how to justify the presentation of the question of trust. While the mayor has accused the rest of the political groups of blocking the city government, they have focused on Sanz’s weakness, incapable of managing the Andalusian capital as a minority. “PSOE and Vox join forces not against this mayor, but against the city of Seville,” said the councilor, reiterating the tweezer argument, which he already used in May when he announced his intention to explore the Collboni road and which he also used the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno, to justify the advancement of the last regional elections.
“Governance is not resolved even by forcing the approval of a budget with a question of trust, that is not going to solve the problem of not knowing how to govern Seville,” said Susana Horrillo, the spokesperson for Con Podemos-IU. “You will have to resort to exceptionalism to approve budgets that will be in force in July and that will only be useful for this year,” the Vox representative, Cristina Peláez, has warned the mayor, who has once again recalled that she has had to to reach this situation after “three months of dizzying the situation with conversations among our formation to refuse to reach government negotiations.” “He is going to approve the budget from the cat’s eye,” Muñoz replied.
The socialist leader has denied Sanz’s argument that the city is blocked and has recalled that since the 2023 budgets were extended, most of the budget modifications proposed by the PP have gone ahead thanks to the support of the PSOE. “Or have they not held the Fair, or are they not paying the salaries and signing the contracts?” Muñoz recalled, in an ironic exchange of roles, to contradict the scenario of chaos that the Treasury delegate, Juan Bueno, had proposed. , in the presentation of the accounts. The socialist leader recalled that his training offered him both during the first negotiation of the 2024 accounts, during the winter, and in recent weeks, a program with 27 proposals. The PP, through a letter, reported that it had agreed to incorporate 15, but for none of them a budget allocation has been made in the items presented this Monday. “Negotiating is not sending a e-mail and a letter to the press, is not accepting 15 proposals that have no budget reflection. Seville is not blocked, it is you who is blocking Seville,” Muñoz confronted Sanz.
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“Mayor intervened”
Sanz decided to recover the 2024 budgets, which he had abandoned in winter after verifying the lack of support, in the midst of a political and media storm, after Seville newspaper made known the conversations that the PP had had with Vox for the ultra formation to become part of the municipal government, a toll that they had always demanded to guarantee their support for the municipal budgets and any relevant Sanz initiative in the council. Peláez acknowledged that these conversations “were advanced,” but the PP in a rush – both the national leadership and Moreno himself – denied the majority. At the point of starting the European campaign, the popular ones, and especially the president of the Board, who embodies the most moderate profile of the conservatives, were not interested in giving credibility to an agreement with the extreme right in the fourth largest city council. important of Spain. After several meetings between Sanz and Moreno, the mayor announced that he was going to follow the Collboni route to govern with his own budgets.
All groups have called the Seville mayor’s attention to the little room for maneuver he has to govern due to dependence on the interests of Genoa or the Junta de Andalucía. “You do not rule in Seville, the decisions for the governance of Seville are made in San Telmo [sede del Gobierno andaluz]“Horrillo told him. “He has betrayed his voters,” Peláez stated. “He is an intervened mayor,” Muñoz continued, alluding to the Board’s supposed veto of the government agreement with Vox and the opposition to two of the PSOE proposals that the PP had agreed to negotiate to achieve support for its budgets. , the capital law and the tourist tax, which the autonomous Executive opposed last week.
The Collboni road will guarantee Sanz the approval of its first budgets, but at the cost of high political wear and without guarantees that other key initiatives will go ahead to promote its projects, such as the creation of a new General Urban Planning Plan, the figure of a second secretary to streamline the day-to-day municipal management or the modification of land in the Tablada neighborhood to make housing compatible with green ar
eas, an approach that is opposed not only by left-wing parties but also by neighborhood groups. and environmental groups.
To the political erosion that his disapproval implies, we must add the little progress in what were two of the axes of his campaign: cleanliness – the dirt has not diminished since he took the reins a year ago – or the proliferation of tourist apartments – which have increased by 20% under his mandate, despite the fact that he promised that he would not give even one more license. At this time, their intention to make visitors pay to enter the Plaza de España or the referendum to change the duration of the Fair have also sparked controversy. “His occurrences damage the image of Seville,” Muñoz reproached him.
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