The electoral night of March 28, in which the PP obtained an absolute majority in the Madrid City Council, is the “best memory” that the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, takes away from the year 2023, a year in which the people of Madrid They have opted at the polls for a “strong and solid” local government, without being “conditioned” by any of the “extremes” of the political board.

This was highlighted by Almeida in the balance of the exercise that he did after the press conference after the last Government Meeting of the year, where he emphasized that, in just six months of the legislature, the PP has implemented 70% of the measures. of his electoral program. And he recalled that “the PP has a fiscal reduction model” in line with the measures that Isabel Díaz Ayuso is approving for the Community of Madrid.

According to the popular mayor, the “best memory” he has of 2023 is “the night of May 28”, due to the results that the PP achieved after a “complicated” mandate, with events such as the coronavirus pandemic and the Filomena storm. , in which the Popular Party governed the city in coalition with Ciudadanos.

“A coalition government that had to negotiate with one or the other. We suffered many moments of incomprehension but, nevertheless, we were able to move forward, and the response of the people of Madrid (at the polls) was so extraordinarily generous (…); The extraordinary trust they gave us is, of course, an indelible memory for me,” the councilor added.

On another point, Almeida stressed that on May 28 “the people of Madrid gave a message to Spain as a whole of the need to build majorities, majorities far from radicalization, polarization, and tension.”

“A very clear alternative to the policies of Sanchismo, but also to the possibility that we could have a local government that was not influenced by Vox or conditioned by Vox’s policies. And I believe that the people of Madrid gave this message to all Spaniards: that it is possible to have governments with solid, strong majorities”, that operate “from centrality and moderation” and without being “conditioned by any extreme, neither by the left nor on the right,” Almeida added.

For the mayor, a summary of 2023 is that Madrid “is in the best moment in its history”, and he has defended that his Government has not stopped “since May 28” to “continue consolidating the best moment that Madrid has experienced in his story”.

He has also valued the approval of the municipal budgets, an “example” that “in the face of Pedro Sánchez’s fiscal tsunami” the PP has a model “of lowering fiscal pressure.”

In 2024, the Almeida Government is not going to “relax” or “give up” because it has an absolute majority, the mayor has assured.

“What we will have to do is double our work, our effort, continue giving the best of ourselves, because that is what the people of Madrid deserve and, furthermore, what the people of Madrid demand of us (…). Of course, anyone who relaxes, anyone who thinks that everything is done, has little future in the Government of the Madrid City Council,” he considered.