Telenegotiation 'in extremis' of Almeida to get the budgets forward

• Almeida finalizes a pact with the 'carmenistas'

After spending 24 hours "very annoyed" by the uncomfortable version of the covid, the fever and the bad body, the mayor of Madrid will continue today from his home a key day for his Government. Today he needs to agree on a budget agreement with the councilors of Recupera Madrid, the spin-off of Más Madrid. If not, it faces the threat of an extension of the accounts in a momentous year (2022, pre-electoral), marked by the need for investment and with many pending projects. Also the lowering of taxes, one of the flags of the legislature of José Luis Martínez-Almeida, pending the mobile phone and the computer screen to be on top of the negotiations of his team. Confined and with a lot of work, this is how the mayor of the capital faces his Thursday.

The delegate of the Treasury of the Madrid City Council, Engracia Hidalgo (PP), said yesterday that in conversations with the mixed group (Recupera Madrid) to reach agreements, although she has insisted that taxes will not be raised, and that a « An important condition »of the municipal government is that the budgets are approved before December 31st.

"We are negotiating, we have been negotiating for days, looking for those meeting points, obviously from the point of view that we are at the [ideological] antipodes."

A key pact

Hidalgo

has argued that his group considers the 2022 budgets "very important for the people of Madrid" and essential to tackle the crisis derived from the pandemic, before which "we are still beginning the recovery." For this reason, the Almeida government considers that budgets are a "basic" tool to "provide stability, be able to provide better public services to the people of Madrid, be able to make sure that no one is left behind in this way out of the crisis and also be able to access funds Europeans'. Of course, the delegate insists that they maintain red lines: "Under no circumstances will there be a reform that entails a tax increase, that is obvious and clear."

He also questioned the proposal of

on a possible pact in two steps: now the fiscal issue and in January, the accounts for 2022. «Budgets are annual, and both in terms of income and expenses must be approved on 1 January, because even if it were only for a week we would have to make an extension with all that it entails, with which we are going to try, and it is an important condition for us, that the budgets are approved before December 31, "he explains.

From Recover Madrid, Marta Higueras acknowledged that yesterday there was progress.

"We are going to see if we can bring positions to overcome that obstacle that yesterday was quite important", and that is related to the IBI ordinance.

The

propose to renounce a rise in real estate of more than one million euros in exchange for a reduction only to those with a cadastral value lower than 200,000 and not to all equally - as the coalition at the head of the Executive wants de Cibeles- so as not to "put into debt" the city with a drop in the collection of

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