The plummet of Ciudadanos, to the point that most of the surveys do not grant it even the minimum to have parliamentary representation in the City Council, and the Vox blockade of the municipal PP leaves the mayor of Madrid without stable partners for the next political cycle that will open after the May elections for which José Luis Martínez-Almeida appeals to a “broad majority” to try to govern alone.
This is how the councilor has verbalized this Monday, claiming the Popular Party as the “conductive thread” of the “success story” that is Madrid, where “since 1991 the City Council has governed except for the period of the Government of Manuela Carmena” and demanding the same support to his candidacy to insist on the policies that “have made it possible to generate this framework of progress” as a retaining wall for a hypothetical “Frankenstein Government in Madrid style”.
Taking advantage of his speech at an informative breakfast held this Monday in Madrid, Almeida once again vindicated the need to reform the Capital Law. “We are not looking for”, he insisted, “differentiated or exclusive treatment that is confused with nationalism”, but we do demand a legal reform to strengthen the capital in terms of security, infrastructure, taxation and financing.
“Ferrovial is leaving, but we want it to stay. We have to establish a tax framework that makes it possible. Lisbon has a more competitive tax framework, we also want to compete with Lisbon, at the same time a reform of the local financing system is essential” , Almeida has argued under the watchful eye of the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, with whose team he has yet to outline the PP lists for the May elections.
The mayor of Madrid has also promised “in the long term” a General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) that responds to the “new realities and challenges” posed by large cities like Madrid, and that replaces the 1997 plan, which in his opinion has become “obsolete”.
Almeida has said that he will begin the procedures for the drafting of this new plan, which will serve to “speed up and simplify urban planning in the city of Madrid, which has two determining issues: economic development and the improvement of quality of life conditions”. .
For this, the first movement of the councilor must go through modifying the urban regulations in the first plenary session that is held in the City Council in which he has the opportunity to do so. An initiative that has promised to lead despite the absence of stable partners after the slamming of the door by Vox and whose municipal leader, Javier Ortega-Smith, has accused of putting on a “sanitary cordon” by resigning “deliberately and voluntarily” to collaborate in the “governance” of the city.
