Almeida delays the allocation of places in nursery schools until after the elections

The Madrid City Council has delayed until May 29, the day after the municipal elections are held, the resolution of the places for public nursery schools due to a “technical problem” in the admission process, according to municipal sources.

The resolution of the vacancies should have been announced yesterday, Monday, but the Madrid City Council website published a message warning that the provisional lists will be published next Monday, the 29th, and that the claim period will be May 30 to June 1.

Municipal sources detail in this regard that “there has been a technical problem in the admission process to nursery schools” for which the City Council has been recommended to review all applications in case there were any errors.

Last year some 8,000 children were left without a place in a public nursery school, that is, two out of three families had to look for other alternatives, either schools in the Community of Madrid or private. In fact, in the Telemadrid debate last night, Rita Maestre asked the mayor for explanations, but he omitted the answer.

“This technical problem refers, specifically, to the verification of the criteria of scale for access to municipal nursery schools,” detail the same sources, who apologize to the families for the delay.

The Más Madrid candidate for mayor of the capital, Rita Maestre, has published a message on the social network Twitter in which she describes what happened as a demonstration of the “management chaos until the last day” of the mayor and popular candidate for the re-election, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.

“Thousands of families will know that they are left out of nursery schools the day after the elections. They are Almeida’s last priority,” commented the Más Madrid candidate for the City Council.

The candidate of Podemos-IU-AV for the Presidency of the Community, Alejandra Jacinto, has also spoken in this regard, who, in statements to the media before a rally in Móstoles, assured that Almeida and the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, they want to develop “a strategy to prevent the people of Madrid from knowing” if they have a place or not before the elections.

“We are hundreds of thousands of families who do not know if we are going to obtain a public place in nursery schools. This reveals the false freedom of choice of Isabel Díaz Ayuso when choosing a school,” he pointed out.