The spokesperson for the PSOE in the Madrid City Council, Reyes Maroto, regretted this Monday that the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has dedicated the first hundred days of his Government alone to being the “voice of the PP” and to “seeking transfuguism ” so that there are people from the PSOE who vote for the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
“If there is something corrupt, it is transfuguism. In fact, this very week we will bring to the plenary session a proposal in which we will ask that we begin this mandate with zero tolerance towards any form of fraud, corruption, and transfuguism is one of the most corrupt ways of corrupting democracy,” he said. Maroto advanced about an initiative that his group is going to register at the municipal plenary session this Friday regarding conflicts of interest.
Maroto said this when asked by journalists before meeting with those affected by the 18,000 Homes Plan, and in reference to the hundred days that the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, completes this Monday governing the city alone, after four years previous ones in which he was mayor in coalition with Ciudadanos.
The spokesperson has reproached, in this sense, that although there seemed to be “will” on the part of the municipal government, it has not met again “since July 24” with those affected by Plan 18,000, with whom it has met. The socialist spokesperson held a meeting this Monday, and has also criticized that the PP’s monochrome Executive “has also not called the groups that are mobilizing against the felling” of trees for the expansion works of Metro line 11.
Maroto, who has also cited the “problem that has been generated with the cantons,” has summarized that Almeida has been “more concerned about confronting the acting Government of Spain” and talking “about what is not yet up to date.” The PSOE is committed to “coexistence” to provide a “solution” to the “conflict” in Catalonia, compared to the “confrontation” embodied by the PP.
Regarding yesterday’s event that the PP held in the vicinity of the Wizink Center to oppose a possible amnesty, on the eve of the investiture of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Maroto has criticized: “When he talks about equalizing the Spaniards, I wonder if equalizing is not raising the interprofessional minimum wage; if equalizing is not about raising pensions or approving the labor reform.”
In addition to denying that he is aware that the PSOE is negotiating a possible amnesty so that Pedro Sánchez can be sworn in as president again, Maroto has regretted that Feijóo is “wasting the Spaniards’ time.”
“And I also regret that, in this case, Mr. Almeida has been more concerned these hundred days about talking about the problems of his party and seeking transfuguism, that there are people from the PSOE who vote for Mr. Feijóo’s investiture,” Maroto added. .
