Vox, partner and punishment for Ayuso and Almeida: "If we are key for both, we will ask to enter the Government"

The non-processing of the Budgets of the Community of Madrid and the City Council of the capital have already launched the electoral campaign for the regional elections in May.

And the strategy that Vox has undertaken is to try to suffocate the PP starting with the accounts of both institutions to enter the confrontation because, they understand in the formation, that allows them to compete from now on with the

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If the arithmetic that the polls begin to draw holds, Isabel Díaz Ayuso would touch the absolute majority at the regional level, but she would still need Vox to carry out the key laws.

In the case of the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, he would have to count on them as a government partner to repeat at the Palacio de Cibeles.

Although, for the moment, the formation of the radical right is only in the Executive of Castilla y León.

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But we do not rule out doing it equally if we are fundamental in one of the two, "say sources consulted by EL MUNDO.

However, the situations are different in the Community and the City Council as they have been in previous years of legislature.

The relationship between the PP and Vox, with its ups and downs, has been more consistent at the regional than municipal level.

Monasterio supported the 2022 Budgets and everything seemed on track to do the same with those of 2023. But the presentation of his amendments out of time unleashed a political storm between the partners that ended with Vox voting against the final opinion of the accounts and avoiding that the Plenary session is even held as ratified yesterday by the Board of the Assembly.

Yesterday, the Monastery itself requested "to enable the month of January for commissions and plenary sessions to be held in the Madrid Assembly" because, as it stated, "if there was the political will to approve some budgets, they could be processed in January incorporating some of the proposals."

In the

part they point out that this option is not possible and that

trying to squeeze the regional government in the political battle.

"When we get to the polls, they will see what their strategy has meant," indicate other

sources .

More tense has been the relationship between Javier Ortega Smith and José Luis Martínez-Almeida at the Palacio de Cibeles.

In his first year, the mayor managed to have Budgets due to an error by Más Madrid, which did not replace a councilor on time, with the simple abstention of Vox because they had not closed an agreement.

In 2020 there was an agreement, but last year the councilor had to resort to the four Carmenista mayors who had split from Más Madrid to move them forward.

And, in the last year of the mandate, the process was stillborn due to the disagreement that those who were investiture partners have been experiencing for months.

In Almeida's team, aware that they will have to extend the previous accounts, they indicate that

closing itself to negotiating with the municipal government.

“It is they who have to explain their position, not us who have offered them to at least sit down.

It is inexplicable that they do not do it, "point out sources from the municipal Executive, who do not see major problems in having to extend the current Budget.

And, even less, in an election year, where both in the Community of Madrid and in the City Council,

at the regional level, and in Works and Social Services at the municipal level.

"They are the ones who do not negotiate the really important games, they do not have an absolute majority even if they think so," say sources from the formation led by Rocío Monasterio at the regional level.

In fact, in recent weeks, in which Vox has gone from abstaining to refusing Ayuso's accounts, that has been the argument used by the formation's spokesperson to justify her change of position.

Monasterio has repeated on several occasions that the regional government "has humiliated" his party by not admitting any of the 25 proposals that they had set as priorities, among which was

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," said the regional president last Saturday, who stressed that her partner returns to "bring at a time when it is not possible, for many reasons that we have already exposed, these two laws", in reference to the LGTBI.

"I want to remember that I do not need Vox's votes, I just need their abstention and that they do not constantly vote against so as not to harm budget increases," Ayuso concluded.

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