The candidate of the PSOE to the Presidency of the Community of Madrid and general secretary of the PSOE-M, Juan Lobato.Fernando Sánchez (Europa Press)
At the gates of the examination of the polls on May 28, Juan Lobato, secretary general of the Socialists of Madrid, and candidate of the PSOE to the regional presidency, has pledged on Tuesday to promote ten reforms in his first year in power in the event that he manages to govern the region. A set of promises with a date of fulfillment in the areas of health, education, economy or employment that tries to spur the progressive electorate going beyond criticism of the policies of the Executive of Isabel Díaz Ayuso (PP), by contrasting another way of facing the problems of Madrid. It will not be the final stroke of a campaign in which Lobato is playing to recover for the PSOE the hegemony of the regional left against Más Madrid, and achieve a turnaround in the Real Casa de Correos that for now does not predict any survey: on Thursday he will share a rally with Pedro Sánchez, the president of the Government, that he will try to give it the final impulse with his second visit during the campaign to the region.
"My commitment is to govern, it is to do, it is to build. I prefer proposals to occurrences, seriousness to ornaments, and self-responsibility to blame others," Lobato said at a press conference at the Madrid Assembly. I propose a great agreement with that majority of democrats with social convictions that exist in Madrid to change Madrid after 28 years, "he continued. " On May 28, Madrid society will have a president present, active and working tirelessly to fulfill the next 10 commitments in the first year of the legislature, "he added, before listing his programmatic commitments for the first 365 days of a possible progressive government, which would be the first in Madrid since 1995.
They are these.
- Rescuing Madrid's public health with two priority actions: standardized face-to-face care in all health centers in the Community of Madrid from 8 a.m. to 21 p.m. and reopening of its emergencies with complete medical teams.
- Approve budgets of the Community of Madrid to replace the current ones, extended from 2022, since the current Executive of Díaz Ayuso has only carried out a project of public accounts of four possible due to his disagreements with Vox, his only possible parliamentary partner.
- Presentation of a Housing Law of the Community of Madrid. Implement for 30,000 families and young people a reduction of 300 euros in the cost of their rents as long as they get public housing for rent and the processing of the first 5,000 affordable public rental housing will begin.
- Implement all the aid committed in the electoral program on self-employed workers, such as 6,000 euros for the start of activity, or the extension of bonuses to the Social Security quota the two years following the flat rate.
- Establish the new public service of extracurricular activities of free access in robotics, art and sport by opening public schools from 7 a.m. to 19 p.m. throughout the year. And launching the free school canteen for families whose gross annual income is below 35,000 euros, as well as for single-parent families, numerous and those in which one of their members has a disability equal to or greater than 33% in which the threshold will be extended due to their special situation of vulnerability.
- Start the tender for the construction of the 11 promised schools and institutes that are not built.
- Open the tender for the construction of ten new residences in the Community of Madrid and approve a Commission of Inquiry in the Assembly of Madrid to analyze what happened in the residences during the pandemic. Implementation of the cultural bonus of 300 euros per year for people over 65 years of age.
- Establishment of the Flat Rate in the Transport Pass for the entire Community of Madrid and approve the Regional Transport Plan that will include the express bus network in metropolitan cities.
- Approve a Law of Democratic Regeneration, Good Governance and Citizen Participation that includes the quarterly call, at least four times a year, of all the parliamentary groups of the Assembly of Madrid.
- Initiate a training plan for 250,000 people that will allow 100,000 jobs to be filled during the first half of the legislature.
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