The deputy spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Cortes of Castilla y León, Patricia Gómez Urbán, has held the president of the Junta, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, responsible for removing key areas such as housing, territorial planning, and equality from the "central core" of regional political action, as a result of having "chopped up" the Government.
During her speech after the appearance of the second vice-president of the Cortes, Isabel Blanco Llamas, Gómez Urbán maintained that the creation of this Vice Presidency without a portfolio is due to a "lack of commitment to these public areas."
In this regard, she described Blanco's role as a "vice-president with functions but without powers," a result of the government pact between PP and Vox to maintain "the seat," an agreement with which, she denounced, both parties "have chopped up" Castilla y León.
The socialist leader reproached that the Junta announces the construction of 5,000 homes while the PP repeatedly rejects safeguarding public housing. She also insisted that the regional Executive does not trust Territorial Planning, which, in her opinion, should ensure access to quality public services regardless of the municipality in which one resides.
In relation to the residency requirement to opt for subsidies, Gómez Urbán ironically commented on the case of the regional senator Javier Maroto, registered "in a hurry," and has described the initiatives promoted by PP and Vox as "racist, xenophobic, and classist policies."
On the other hand, the UPL representative Rosa María Quintanilla stated that the pact signed between PP and Vox does not inaugurate any different political era in the Community, but rather constitutes a "copy and paste" that ignores the needs and singularities of the territory.
Quintanilla focused on the fact that the provinces of León and Zamora have been excluded from the Regional Territorial Scope Plan (PRAT) in housing matters, which, in her opinion, confirms the persistence of a "failed community model" that pushes these areas towards demographic abandonment and loss of institutional weight.
Faced with this scenario, she warned that her party will confront, throughout the entire legislature, a policy designed with a state-level focus that aims to be "remotely controlled" from "centralist" power centers.
In the opposite direction, the prosecutor of the Vox Parliamentary Group, José Antonio Palomo, has defended that the proposed actions comply with the guide marked by the coalition agreement. In his opinion, said pact has been transformed into an effective roadmap, with deadlines, reforms and defined goals to face the real problems of the citizens.
Finally, the prosecutor of the Popular Parliamentary Group, José Luis Sanz Merino, has remarked that the management of these policies is articulated "at the highest level" thanks to the vice-presidency rank granted. In addition, he has stressed that the commitment to build 5,000 homes transcends mere declarations, by materializing in specific projects and figures at the local level.