The spokesperson of the Mixed Group in the Madrid City Council, Marta Higueras, has advanced that the ‘yes’ of her formation to the budget for 2022 means giving a “change of course” and “removing Vox” with measures agreed with the municipal government such as that the writer from Madrid Almudena Grandes be declared Favorite Daughter or the transfer of Prado 30, the former headquarters of La Ingobernable, for the construction of a health center and cultural facilities in dialogue with the residents of the district.
Higueras has asserted that with his support “There will be no linear tax reduction in the IBI” and will be granted direct aid to the owners of a property for residential use with a value of less than 300,000 euros. It joins “support for LGTBI diversity with the return of Pride” and the “elimination of subsidies to entities that harass women in pregnancy termination clinics.”
Other measures include free EMT buses in periods of high pollution and days of episodes of high traffic density, the effort of BiciMAD with direct management from the EMT with new bike lanes and “reduction of the City Council’s debt.”
Higueras has also pointed to the socio-labor support for unaccompanied minors, the creation of attention and information offices for the direct management of the Minimum Vital Income, the provision of a housing emergency fund for those families who, due to a crisis or pandemic, cannot meet the expenses of their housing or a line of aid for green roofs and installation of renewables.
The councilor has also emphasized the stoppage of the cession of residential municipal land and the implementation of a humanitarian energy emergency solution for the Cañada Real. Marta Higueras has assured in a press conference, shared with the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and with the vice mayor, Begoña Villacís, that for the Mixed Group today a “historic agreement” has been signed, which has gone through “fleeing from the confrontation “.
With the agreement “the institutional violence that Vox imposes against the LGTBI collective and women” moves away in budgets “originally designed for Vox”. Higueras began his speech by thanking the mayor and especially the vice mayor for his “leadership to reach an agreement that would not have been possible without her.”
The mayor has recognized that the negotiation has not been easy, Proof of this is that yesterday they resumed the talks from 5:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. The result has been worth it because he has described them as “the best possible budgets”.
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