The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has offered this Friday a political agreement to the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in exchange for the support of his formation for the regional budgets for next year, whose opinion is voted on this Friday in the regional Parliament.
In an interview with Efe, Abascal has shown himself willing to open talks "urgently today" to be able to reach that agreement that allows "Vox not to vote against" the ruling and the accounts can go ahead for final approval by the plenary session of the Assembly next week.
However, the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has rejected the offer, which consists, among other things, in repealing the Law on Gender Identity and Expression and Social Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Community of Madrid, which Vox calls
trans
law
Abascal has assured that the agreement is still possible, despite the "ugly" of not admitting in an "arbitrary" way the amendments presented after the deadline due to a "computer problem".
As he explained, these amendments can no longer be debated, but an agreement can be reached on some laws that Vox believes are "inadequate" and that the PP criticizes at the national level, such as the trans law, while maintaining it in Madrid.
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Abascal offers the PP a political agreement in exchange for voting on the regional budgets for 2023
The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, today offered a political agreement to the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in exchange for the support of his group for the regional budgets for next year. Photo: Fernando Alvarado |
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"I am not going to exchange rights and obligations of the laws for budgets," said Díaz Ayuso.
"Something different is that throughout 2023 all those amendments that can improve the public services of the Community of Madrid, that we incorporate them."
However, and despite the rejection, Ayuso already promised on December 1 to eliminate the concept of gender self-determination from the legislation in force in the region, which would include both tweaking the regional laws and trying to amend the transnational
law
when it is approved. in Congress.
The issue, therefore, had already been on the negotiating table for several weeks.
"They had already reported that they were changing budgets due to the
trans law,
but they were already told that one thing had nothing to do with the other," a regional government source told EL PAIS.
"That was already discussed weeks ago," he added.
"They have screwed up inside and they don't know how to get out of there," he concluded about Vox registering its amendments late, which has prevented the two parties from negotiating their inclusion in the final project.
Is the repeal of that law the only thing that would satisfy Vox?
"It's just one example," Abascal specified, insisting that every day "there are political agreements in exchange for voting on budgets."
Rocío Monasterio, the spokesperson for the extreme right in Madrid, has expressed himself along the same lines.
"It is not a question of [economic] amount," she has argued.
"It is good for the people of Madrid to repeal the trans law, and that does not cost anything, to lower taxes, to help young people...", she continued.
"We cannot vote in favor of an opinion that does not include our amendments," she concluded.
A position that would lead Vox to vote this Friday against the opinion of the accounts, predictably knocking down the 2023 Budgets and forcing the extension of those of 2022.
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