The resignation of the councilor of More Madrid, Inés Sabanés, to his act of councilor has allowed José Luis Martínez-Almeida to carry out the Government Budgets without the favorable vote of Vox. The vote that is subtracted from the formation of the left has allowed the municipal corporation -PP and Citizens- to match the number of votes between the opposition -PSOE and Más Madrid- with 26. And in that scenario with Vox's abstention would have been enough with the president's vote of grace. A vote of grace that has not even been necessary because the opposition has left the room.

"We are not going to support these Budgets." That was the premise with which the Vox spokesman, Javier Ortega Smith, arrived on Monday at the Extraordinary Plenary Session of the Madrid City Council and the one he has maintained during his speech at the Palacio de Cibeles. But that "not supporting" did not imply a vote against, but an abstention. "We are going to abstain and allow them to move forward," the mayor argued in his speech in the chamber.

And precisely with that abstention, the Consistory accounts will go ahead because of the lack of relief of Sabanés who resigned last Friday to occupy a deputy position in the Congress of Deputies. "They have had time to do it," said municipal sources consulted by EL MUNDO.

However, the political strategy developed by the Government of Almeida has unleashed the anger of the formations of the left that have accused the municipal corporation of carrying out "parliamentary filibusterism" to protect itself "in a fraud of law that is the constitution of this Plenary ". The councilors of PSOE and Más Madrid Enma López and Jorge García Castaño have invoked article 65.3 of the Regulation, which has been dismissed by the Plenary Session.

"This is the pactillo to justify that kind of abstention that is a yes being protected in a fraud of law that is the constitution of this Plenary," said García Castaño, who has accused the municipal corporation of betting on "a law fraud "to approve the accounts.

A line that has also shown the socialist Enma López who has described as "indecent" that the government "wants to approve this budget for the absence of a councilor." "Go shapes," the councilor snapped.

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