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The official message is that the gears of the bipartite Government of the Community of Madrid are already greased and that after six months of coalition the four-handed management is reaching «cruising speed». However, internal tensions between the teams of Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP) and Ignacio Aguado (Cs) not only persist, but are still clearly visible from outside the Puerta del Sol.

The last public friction has been at the expense of the tax reduction bill that was discussed this Thursday at the Regional Assembly. The Ministry of Finance had previously agreed with Vox a package of measures for the reduction of 16.4 million euros of expenditure - the equivalent to the amount that would have been stopped if three new tax deductions had been approved in the IRPF - a change of his indispensable support in the voting so that the center right adds an absolute majority.

However, at the last minute Cs the result of this negotiation was unmarked at the request of one of the departments that controls the PP. "There are no agreements if they do not go through the Governing Council , it is important that things remain clear," said Aguado before the press microphones explicitly disallowing his partner in the regional Executive.

The result of this new internal disagreement had as an external consequence the image of the parties of the left aligned with Vox to overthrow the first bill that came to the Madrid Assembly in this legislature, although with two antagonistic arguments: the first oppose by ideology to the linear tax cuts, while for the Rocío Monasterio group it was his way of staging that he did not consider his demands for reducing the «ineffective public spending» in «grants, NGOs and beach bars ».

Beyond the obvious direct effect, this parliamentary setback now further complicates the future negotiation of the next Budgets - the 2019 ones are still extended for now - for which the support of the radical right-wing party is once again essential. However, in the two halves of the regional government they have tried to minimize its scope.

From the Ayuso team they recognize that "obviously it is not good news" that tax rebates were rejected "very well thought out" by the three social sectors to which they were addressed: people who take care of their dependent relatives, loan applicants to attend University and youth studies up to 30 years old that acquire a home. However, they point out that, as has already happened with the investiture, they will continue to "work to combine the wills of both " with this bill as well as with the future measures addressed.

In the environment of the regional vice president, on the other hand, they indicate that "there is no internal fissure" and that "everything remains the same". To the question of whether the possible approval of the Budgets is more difficult today than a week ago, the answer is that this "screen" has not yet been reached and whether or not it is passed "depends on the rest of the parties."

Finally, Vox questioned on Friday the cohesion of the regional Executive who contributed to constitute with his votes with this warning of Monastery: «Mrs. Díaz Ayuso what you have to do now is to govern and control Mr. Aguado (...). When you are president of a community you have to lead and lead is that your entire team works with one voice so that when an agreement is closed, Mr. Aguado does not come to dynamit it, because that weakens the Government very much ».

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