Almeida finalizes the negotiation of the Budgets with the 'Carmenista' councilors: "200 million of European funds are at stake"

• City Council The 'Carmenistas' councilors accuse Almeida of breaking the budget negotiation, but the contacts continue

The puzzle of the Budgets of José Luis Martínez-Almeida has been on the verge of jumping definitively through the air. The

cleaved

councilors

of

have the only piece that at this stage of the negotiations with the opposition parties can fit into the municipal accounts of the City Council of the capital for 2022 and this Tuesday they threatened not to put it on the table.

The road to the agreement was very clear because, according to the

and

Government team

, 90% of the requests of the Mixed Group in exchange for their vote in favor have been accepted. However, the talks got stuck in the IBI pothole: in the Palacio de Cibeles they maintain that raising it to the owners of the most expensive properties is a "red line."

Recover Madrid

- the political brand of councilors related to former councilor Manuela Carmena - issued a statement on Tuesday morning in which it accused Almeida of breaking "unilaterally" and "unexpectedly" the negotiation. Its spokesperson,

, defined it as "an act of irresponsibility by the mayor, who seems to prefer to leave the city without Budgets rather than assume the electoral cost of reaching cross-cutting agreements" with a party ideologically located to the left.

In the municipal government, on the other hand, they resisted ending the talks, but responded to the announcement of their potential partners by convening an Extraordinary Finance Commission to debate the amendments to the accounts. "Thus all groups will have to take a picture and show whether they are willing to understand or it is a partisan strategy," they argued.

The next to move a tab on the board was Recupera Madrid, which after openly talking about a break in the negotiation stepped down to place it in the category of "entrenched" by a "stumbling block" that could still be "saved." With this objective, he proposed an alternative proposal on the IBI in which he renounced to raise it to properties of more than one million euros in exchange for a reduction only to those with a

and not to all equally -as the coalition at the head of the Executive of Cibeles wants- not to "put into debt" the city with a drop in the collection of 60 million.

Now Almeida's team has until

to decide whether to accept or modulate the claims of the Mixed Group.

It will be then when the Finance Commission is held in which all the opposition parties will have to fix their position on the Budgets before calling a Plenary for approval if they have managed to tie the necessary support.

Otherwise, those of 2021 would be extended.

Economic consequences

In the Treasury Department they explain that in this negotiation "

are at stake in

, 60 million in tax cuts and many new facilities in neighborhoods that greatly contribute to social rebalancing." Also, all "nominative subsidies, which would decline and leave vulnerable groups in a difficult situation to serve them."

In addition, they point out that not having new municipal accounts will slow down the execution of many investments and that major actions, such as the

and the

of the Pedro Bosch street

, "would be affected."

"The Budget would be cut by around 400 million euros, the equivalent of the entire line of works," they explain.

Political implications

The

of this eventual pact to carry out the new spending structure would be that Almeida would have to again rely on the

councilors

, who already helped him to maintain

with small modifications despite the fact that the mayor had committed himself in the electoral campaign 2019 to eliminate this area of ​​traffic restrictions. For this reason, Vox has resigned to support the coalition government in economic matters, contrary to what it had done in the previous two years.

After Javier Ortega Smith's group slammed the door, the councilor already warned that he was not going to give in "to pressure or blackmail" from who until then had been his natural ally to govern.

"I will make all the efforts that are necessary to have a budget for the people of Madrid

, because I am not here to defend my political position, I am here to defend the people of Madrid," he said then.

Almeida rose to prominence as the mayor of the consensus when he managed to bring all groups from right to left to an agreement on the signing

for the recovery of the city after the Covid pandemic.

Now he has to negotiate in extremis with the only party willing to complete his investment puzzle by 2022.

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