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With the hangover from the possible involvement of the City Council in the espionage of the PP to Ayuso still in the background, the foundations of the municipal government are once again tottering.

This time for the six million in commissions that Luis Medina and Alberto Luceño, now called to testify by the Investigating Court number 47 of Madrid, obtained for the sale of medical supplies to the Consistory in March 2020.

A fact that has opened the second serious government crisis between PP and Citizens in just two months.

Only with the staging was it very clear.

The mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís,

, something unusual.

And more so when the Board leaves the Palacio de Cibeles like yesterday in Villa de Vallecas, where both usually go in pairs with the district councilor.

But it also showed in his speeches.

While the mayor refused to admit failures in control, he hid behind "the dramatic situation" of the first months of the pandemic and defended the work of the technicians of the Treasury Area, because

, the deputy mayor requested an external audit to study all the executed emergency contracts and a review of the controls, because “they have failed”.

Totally conflicting versions of

.

According to Almeida's account, these emails arrived at the Mayor's Office on March 18 and 19.

In them, the businessman provided his mobile, which was then transferred to the Security and Emergency Area and, later, to the technicians in charge of the negotiation.

But

, the alderman's right-hand man, to request that contact.

However, Almeida assured yesterday that he was "unrelated" to these events and that

.

In the middle of that month, these and the request for the extra costs arrived: one million masks, 2.5 million gloves and 750,000 tests.

A contingent that would end up being defective in part, a fact that the City Council was aware of due to

, which barely went up and broke. with ease, according to sources consulted by EL MUNDO.

With that order, Medina and Luceño obtained the six million that were spent on high-end cars, luxury watches, a yacht, a vacation in Marbella and a home in Pozuelo de Alarcón.

Events condemned by the mayor and the deputy mayor, who did agree that the City Council "will claim every last euro" of the operation.

But that does not mitigate the government crisis.

In the mayor's team, the solo appearance of Villacís has not gone down well, where he also threw several darts at his government partner.

, in a clear allusion to the PP that manages the Treasury Area, in charge of centralizing the purchase of the material.

"I can guarantee you that they have not contacted anyone from Ciudadanos," added the leader of Cs.

Even at first, Villacís allowed himself to flirt with a possible rupture of the Government if the PP did not comply with his demands to audit the contracts, but at the time he discarded the motion of censure.

Because, as he explained, "the presence of Ciudadanos guarantees that there is transparency", since it

Make the motion demanded weeks ago by the opposition.

“We are not going to let the PP govern alone.

(...) There is a good government but for it to survive there must be co-responsibility».

For his part,

, while "he does not ask for the resignation" of Mónica Oltra for "covering up an alleged crime of sexual abuse" or Ada Colau for "declaring as accused of an alleged plot of corruption of contracts."

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