It was planned. The Burgos Budget for 2025 did not have the opinion of the Finance Commission and was not going to be approved, which would cause the breakup of the Popular Party and Vox government team. This is how the vice mayor of Burgos, Fernando Martínez-Acitores, until now, advanced it when he began his intervention, and that is how it has been. “I get up because I also don’t know what I have left…”, said the Vox councilor who until now led Familia in the Burgos City Council and who has disfigured “the very hard blows” of the PP.
The mayor of Burgos, the ‘popular’ Cristina Ayala, has expelled the four Vox councilors from the Government team during this Friday’s plenary session after they rejected the Budgets that included aid to NGOs that work with Burgos. The PP of Burgos has lost the vote on its 2025 accounts and shows its break with Vox. “We didn’t throw them out, they decided not to approve the budget,” said Cristina Ayala, who thanked one by one the work and effort of the Vox councilors in the last year and a half.
“We regret that today four councilors have not given their support to the budget and it entails a thoughtful decision that they do not wish to continue belonging to this government team,” said the ‘popular’ mayor during the plenary session, which is still taking place, and which only has intervened at this point of the debate once the vote has taken place and the two amendments of the Socialist Group – which asked to restore aid for Development Cooperation and for exhumations and Democratic Memory work – have been rejected so much that they were eliminated last year—and the 2025 Budgets.
The four NGOs—which have been vandalized and defend working legally—have found themselves at the center of the political debate after Vox and PP negotiated to withdraw subsidies intended for these NGOs that help the integration of immigrants—except for Cáritas, that refused to accept them if they were going to be exclusive—something that the PP has finally withdrawn from the 2025 Budgets after a massive demonstration last week.
“Neither fair nor intelligent nor humanitarian”
Mayor Cristina Ayala — who has altered the layout of the agenda so that Vox approved several partial modifications of the General Urban Planning Plan — has opted to “change the compass itinerary a few degrees” and govern as of Monday in a minority “with the same enthusiasm and honesty.” “It was neither fair nor reasonable nor intelligent nor acceptable nor humanitarian to leave three entities that have been collaborating with the Burgos City Council without any help,” said Ayala, who has also criticized the Socialist Group for its systematic ‘no’.
Cristina Ayala has regretted that in Burgos these 119,000 euros for NGOs that work with migrants – in a budget of 250 million euros – have meant this break while in other municipalities this type of aid is maintained. “I have not been able to convince them. In the Provincial Council, Vox Burgos has voted in favor of a Budget that granted an allocation to one of the NGOs that had been vetoed here. This rectification did not seem so complicated,” Cristina Ayala protested.
The ‘popular’ councilor has assured that eliminating this item of 119,000 euros was a “death wound” for the NGOs, which “help make Burgos a more inclusive, tolerant, diverse and prosperous city”, a decision initially supported by the PP but that Ayala has described as an “error” that they were willing to “rectify.”
It remains to be known if (and when) Cristina Ayala presents a question of confidence or if she extends the 2024 Budgets; since a motion of censure is not on the table, because the Socialist Group would need the support of Vox and that is not an option for any of the parties.
Along the same lines, and already during the debate, the Councilor for the Treasury, Ángel Manzanedo, spoke out, describing this “obstinacy of Vox Madrid” as “incomprehensible and unjustifiable” for “the majority of Burgos society.”
The PSOE asks the PP to rectify
The former mayor and spokesman for the Socialist Municipal Group, Daniel de la Rosa, has asked the ‘popular’ to rectify their attitude towards the PSOE and has recalled how Daniel Lacalle’s PP governed in a minority with specific pacts with the PSOE and then governed in minority or in coalition the Socialist Group. “To govern as a minority you have to build bridges, give in and negotiate,” claimed Daniel de la Rosa.
The socialist municipal leader has considered it “ridiculous” that the Treasury councilor has “shaken” the PSOE for its municipal management. “Despite having won the elections, the PSOE offered to support the PP from the opposition as long as Vox did not govern. And he despised that possibility. Don’t be surprised that you have caused the biggest government crisis in this city in 23 years,” De la Rosa questioned Cristina Ayala.
Vox has disgraced the Popular Group for leaving them “at the foot of their horses” after agreeing on the Budgets for 2025. “They have kicked us out,” said Martínez-Acitores, who has been convinced that this breakup has not been desired. by the Popular Municipal Group, but imposed. “I’m sure you don’t want to, there are instructions,” he asked.
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