• Madrid City Council manages to comply with air quality regulations and reduces nitrogen dioxide values ​​to historic lows

  • Budgets What happens between Almeida and Ortega Smith?

    "He is neither in Madrid nor is he expected"

Vox considers the political game to be posturing.

Or at least that's what they call, sources from their municipal group, the possible staging of a blockade with the PP.

There is no solution for the accounts proposed by the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, no matter how much the rest of the parties talk about the dramatization of the disagreement.

Ortega Smith

refuses to approve the Budget because Almeida has crossed a red line for the formation

.

"He does not want to negotiate. He offers the accounts without listening to us. We defend our position. We reached an investiture agreement. We made him mayor with the commitment to repeal Madrid Central.

We signed it conscientiously

, "they insist.

"

Even if Ortega Smith were mayor of the city, he could not repeal Central Madrid ," add

popular

sources

.

"It is impossible".

On January 1, 2023, all cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants will have to activate, forced by the Climate Change Law, low emission zones.

Madrid 360, Almeida's plan that replaced Manuela Carmena's Madrid Central, will veto access to vehicles without an environmental label.

The prospect of limitations flourishing in the centers of the region's cities has tightened the ranks of Abascal with the aim of destabilizing the

popular

governments in his particular crusade against "the demonization of the private car."

Rocío Monasterio has also blocked the Community Budgets.

"The mayor said that Rocío Monasterio and Ortega Smith did not speak to each other. It was a lie.

We are a unit of action. Both in the Community and in the City Council we think the same thing

. "

What criteria does Vox actually apply?

They argue that article 14 of Law 7/2021, of May 20, on Climate Change and Energy Transition allows low emission zones to be "softened", with the opinion of an Autonomous Community.

The norm speaks of "a regression"

.

And they hold on to the possibility of establishing a free design in limited spaces.

"You can have a broader vision. Madrid is not China. In very specific places and very specific situations, the air quality is not good.

But in the last 10 years, the air quality, in general in Madrid,

". Ortega Smith handles an argument in which "the advancement of technology is valued: cars no longer pollute as before, public transport has been electrified and one of our commitments was to eliminate coal heating."

"They couldn't override any ZBE"

The preamble of the law defines the principle of non-regression, one of the "guiding principles" of the standard established by article 2. "[...] Public Administrations cannot imply a reduction [...] with respect to the levels of environmental protection existing at all times, except in fully justified situations based on reasons of public interest".

From the PP they remember the decision of the Contentious Court number 7 in 2019, when Almeida, after reaching the mayoralty at the hands of Ortega Smith, tried to repeal Central Madrid.

"The protection of health and the environment are principles that should govern the actions of the public powers.

In this case, it is enforceable to a greater extent given that an action tending to protect both constitutional goods is being suppressed

."

"Vox could not annul any ZBE that is implemented in any city. Article 14 prevents it," sources from the Department of the Environment interpret the legal text more restrictively. And they quote the article literally: "Any measure that implies a regression of the already existing low emission zones must have the previous report from the competent regional body". The Environment area defends that this has been the year of the historical series of eleven in which the lowest values ​​"of the history" of nitrogen dioxide. "From 2010 to 2021, Madrid has exceeded the limits established in the European directive (2008/50/EC) for nitrogen dioxide from 2010 to 2021. These are objective data."


Ortega Smith does not accept the allusion to the moratorium on label B transport vehicles approved this Monday.

"On the one hand, we had already requested it in the plenary sessions of September and October

," Vox sources add.

"On the other, the moratorium only lasts one year. It's not enough" to go to Almeida's meeting and allow him, a few weeks before the pre-campaign, to prepare the new accounts.

The Budget Plenary "will be convened next week", was heard yesterday in the corridors of Cibeles.

"Maybe December 27."

Almeida was blunt: "

There will be no Budget Plenary Session if I cannot approve them

. "

The Vox councilor, Fernando Martínez Vidal, proposed in the plenary session of September 13, 2021 to install "tolls" in the city, in exchange for diluting the current system.

"A payment system for entering the city by car is a dissuasive measure, it discourages entry by private vehicle, it would alleviate traffic density and pollution in the city and it would be a source of financing for the system."

Vox rejects Almeida's latest offer.

"He always reaches out. We look after the people"

, despite the fact that the Vox councilor, Fernando Martínez Vidal, raised a year ago to install "tolls" to access the city.

"Some will not be able to go to work in their private car.

They do not even consider negotiating our moratorium proposal: leave Central Madrid on hold until a judge decides

. With the Popular Party it is always 'either take it or leave it'. They do not give another option".

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