The spokeswoman for Vox in the Assembly of Madrid, Rocío Monasterio, has defended on Wednesday that the closure and seal of a part of her home and that of the spokesperson for Vox in the Congress of Deputies, is due to years of a "bureaucratic maze aggravated by a spiteful whistleblower. "

"Many Spaniards know the feeling that the bureaucracy suffocates them despite their attempts to create, work, grow, improve, move forward. This is just one example of this, but one more that explains why in Vox we always talk about simplifying processes and reduce bureaucracy, "Monasterio wrote in a thread on his Twitter account.

The spokeswoman for Vox has explained that they have been 9 years "complying with each step of the ordinance to try to reach the end of the process" and "years paying all the necessary fees (once, twice)".

It also ensures that they have paid the updated IBI, without the updated license and that they have been "wasting time, money and effort to definitely obtain the first occupancy and operating license."

"For years we have also been wasting time on the immense City Hall officials, who are constrained by bureaucratic processes," he lamented.

Monastery begins by explaining the "bureaucratic obstacles" since 2010 when it says that they acquired "an old house", which although they "usually like the rehabilitation of old spaces" in this case believes that the best thing they had the house they bought It was "an unbuilt building." So they designed "with great enthusiasm" a new house for their "growing @ family".

In 2011, he says, they undertook the demolition of the house with the mandatory license. Meanwhile, they paid and waited for the obtaining of the new building license, and asked "several budgets from builders to start the new house."

Also, in August of that same year they were granted the building permit they had requested to build the new house "with a professional office in a part of the basement". With this, they paid the respective administrative fees plus the construction tax.

Then, in 2012-2013, after selecting a builder recommended by a third party, they say they endured "two long years of work" and that despite "serious mistakes made by the builder," they paid him 95 percent of the agreed budget, and "countless extras that are coming out"

At the end of 2013, according to Monasterio "the first conflict with the builder arises for the remaining amounts, and leaves the work without finishing it off", so a year later they have to put in new contractors "to finish off and correct what has not done or has done the previous one wrong ".

"Finally we finish the work, we pay the first occupancy and operating license fees for the first time. The City Council requires us the certificate of end of work, signed by the architect and the rigger. We prepare ours, but the rigger, which is from the environment of the builder, does not respond, "he said.

Thus, in 2015, given the evidence that they have finished the work, that they have a new home, and that they are trying to obtain the first occupation license, they make the corresponding new registration in the Cadastre.

Then, the City of Madrid charges a new Real Estate Tax (IBI) for all the square meters built. In 2016 they still do not respond to the rigger and in July they return to pay the fee for a powerful occupancy license.

Already in 2017 a technician of the City Council inspects the work and in 2018 they are required to update the plans, and modify the original license.

Litigation with the builder

"We comply with everything to adapt to the municipal ordinance. The occupation license is interrupted, while the license is modified. It seemed that we would finally obtain the license. Nothing could be further from the truth. The litigation with the builder is judicialized. And also the Builder himself denounces us to the City Council for the lack of activity license in the office "that he himself has been blocking," he said.

While processing that license, the City Council requires them to close the office, so they resort administratively and the City Council accepts it, "because it verifies that the license modification is in process."

"And so we arrive in the summer of 2019, where the City Council notifies the seal of the office, unless we obtain within this period both the operating license and the reactivation of the expired construction license," Monasterio lamented.

The spokeswoman for Vox indicates that she has seen the need to give these explanations before "the campaign of intoxication of certain media", suffering the leaks of "some apparatchik" that "warns the press" before they receive the notifications themselves .

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