The PP accepts Vox’s request to withdraw aid from NGOs that host migrants in Burgos to approve the budgets

The Popular Party has accepted the request of Vox, its government partner in the Burgos City Council, to withdraw from the 2025 municipal budgets the economic items intended to help NGOs that welcome and assist migrants in Burgos, which have been supported this year with 119,000 euros.

The spokesperson for the Government team, Andrea Ballesteros (PP), explained in the press conference after the Local Government Board that the only thing that the 2025 budget will include will be an item to comply with the obligation derived from this year, since 30% of the aid is pending payment, waiting for expenses to be justified.

The measure affects entities such as ACCEM, Burgos Acoge and Atalaya Intercultural, which in Burgos serve migrants and which last year signed new agreements with the City Council worth 119,000 euros, and which will see this aid eliminated by 2025.

“It was a request from Vox in the negotiation of the budgets and the PP does not agree, because those NGOs do a very good job, but this is a coalition government and surely the budget that we present is not ideal even for the PP not even for Vox,” Ballesteros explained.

The spokesperson for the Government team has insisted that the draft budget, presented this week at a press conference by councilor Ángel Manzanedo, is the result of “a negotiation, not blackmail or a threat” and has assured that the PP has negotiated but he has not demanded anything in that negotiation.

Nor did he want to give explanations for the fact that the aid of more than 19,000 euros to Cáritas has been maintained, also for welcoming and helping immigrants and has referred to what the Vox councilors explain.

Ballesteros has detailed that in the draft budget aid for international cooperation remains at the same amount as this year, which was also reduced by half at the request of Vox, remaining at less than 500,000, in the negotiation of the 2024 budget, the first of the PP-Vox coalition government after the 2023 elections.