Más Madrid has lashed out against the Budgets approved this Friday in the Governing Council of the Community of Madrid, understanding them to be "electoralist" Accounts and "tailored to the Madrid of the penthouses," while Vox has urged the PP to incorporate measures such as "national priority," already in force in other Autonomous Communities where both parties share government.
The spokesperson for Más Madrid in the Assembly, Manuel Bergerot, has criticized the fact that the new Accounts were drawn up "with their backs turned on the Madrid of the neighborhoods" and has stressed, in a press appearance after the Board of Spokespersons, that it is essential to increase revenue through a tax reform such as the one proposed by his party so that "the rich pay more."
Bergerot has also emphasized the lack of definitive data on previous Accounts. "The real spending cannot also be contrasted, and proof of this is that today we do not have the settlement of last year's Budgets. It does not matter what is announced today, what matters is what is spent and where it is spent," he has concluded, thus questioning the transparency of the regional Executive.
On the other hand, the Vox spokesperson, Isabel Pérez Moñino, has announced that her group will demand that the Madrid Government incorporate into these Accounts several initiatives that "are already included in other regions of Spain" where they govern together with the PP, among them "national priority," new tax cuts and greater "firmness" against the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whom she accuses of "distributing illegal immigration."
Beyond these demands, Moñino has insisted that Vox will analyze the Budgets "with a great deal of responsibility" and with "a broad perspective," although she has so far avoided specifying what the voting direction of her parliamentary group will be when the Accounts reach the Plenary of the Madrid Assembly.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the regional Chamber, Carlos Díaz-Pache, has defended that the Budgets approved in the Governing Council show that "another management is possible" and that they act as a "contrast of models" against the proposals of the left.
Díaz-Pache has underlined that these are "record" Accounts, with an increase of 7.3% compared to the previous fiscal year, and that they consolidate "a policy of low taxes," incorporating another six new tax cuts to those already applied in recent years by the regional Executive.
"These Budgets demonstrate that investment in public services and tax cuts is possible," he has pointed out, challenging the left-wing parties to "explain why their tax increases, why the increase in the tax burden, why the increase in the robbery of the pockets of Spaniards does not result in better public services".
The new Accounts were previously detailed at a press conference by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment, Rocío Albert, accompanied by the spokesperson for the regional Government and Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration, Miguel Ángel García Martín.
The Budgets are expected to be filed this same afternoon in the Assembly of Madrid to begin their parliamentary processing, which will culminate in their final approval thanks to the absolute majority of the PP in a Plenary session scheduled for December 17 and 18.