No margin for rest behind the bonfires. The City Council of Alicante has resumed municipal activity this Wednesday, June 25, with the celebration of An extraordinary plenary session for the approval of the adjustment planafter having breached the expense rule at almost 30 million euros last 2024. The call has begun at 11:00 hours giving an account of the renunciation of the Hacienda Councilor, Toni Gallego, to which the controversy for the accounting imbalance ended up costing the position, which resigned at the doors of the parties to “not be an obstacle.”
A session in which he premiered at the head of the Department Nayma Beldjilali, until now Councilor for Culture, Seniors and Youth. The popular, to which her companions were encouraged before starting the session, He has started his speech to defend the accounting adjustment carrying the government of Pedro Sánchez: “It does not let us invest our savings in what the Alicante need,” said the new Treasury head, alluding to the more than 150 million euros that the Consistory accumulates in remaining treasury for not executing budgeted investments. “I can assure you that The City Council accounts are sanitized“He added. In this regard, Beldjilali has thanked Vox's support and has valued that the financial economic plan It also includes measures such as the installation of shadows on public roads: “It is the best plan for the city.”
After Beldjilaali, the turn has been from the spokesman for Eu-Podimos, Manolo Copé, precisely, the “reason” that the extraordinary plenary is held on Wednesday, in the hangover of the fires. Popular Government spokeswoman Cristina Cutanda said The date set a day before Copé's foster care permission began to prevent the progressive from “bursting” the plenary, challenging him in the courts if he was not allowed to participate, as already happened in January. “I have not burst anything, I have only claimed my right to political representation,” said Eu-Podos.
Manolo Copé, from Eu-Podos, shows a poster on the reduction of the IBI agreed by the PP and Vox. / Héctor Fuentes
“The PP is not acting with this free adjustment plan, they do so since the ideological submission,” said Copé, who also He has defended the need for “another city model so that it is not vox who continues to blackmail Obscene to citizens. “
Next, the Compromís spokesman, Rafa morehe asked the mayor of the Treasury: “If everything is so good and the accounts are so sanitized, why did Toni Gallego resigned?” The Valencianist He has claimed “stop saying that the City Council is kidnapped by the extreme right”in a clear allusion to the usual argumentary of the PSOE, because “the most radical is the mayor, Luis Barcala.”
But he recalled that “the PP and Vox govern together with an execution below four euros every ten” and has influenced that “The IBI discount will be between 8 and 12 euros for neighbors while all the great holders will benefit. “
“Betrayal has consequences”
For its part, Vox, the formation that has agreed the adjustment plan with the popular government after in exchange for the resignation of Toni Gallego, has defended the investments included in the accounting modification. For Mario Ortolá, Deputy Training spokesman, The departure of the previous person in charge of the Treasury is the sign that “betrayal must always have consequences”In his speech, the mayor has defended measures introduced by his municipal group, such as the IBI reduction for the next three years. “The extreme left no longer paints anything in Alicante, put it in the head,” Ortolá threatened the progressive parties After sealing a new covenant with the PP despite the fact that the socialists held their hand to Alcade in exchange for rejecting the ultra -right proposals. In addition, Vox has focused its reply shift on the national controversies of the PSOE, mainly pointing to former Minister José Luis Ábalos, with several provocative statements that have generated laughs on the popular bench and irritation in the progressives.
The interventions cycle has been closed by the PSOE spokeswoman, Ana Barcelówho has stated that this situation is a consequence of the “disastrous management” of the mayor, Luis Barcala. On the reduction of the IBI, The socialist has lamented that “there are no data, figures or technical report on what the Alicante will saveit is an empty announcement. “Likewise, Barceló critics that it has not been explained which items will be eliminated from the budget if the fiscal decrease will mean 1.1 million less income per year. The spokeswoman has put the focus on the” small print “of the agreement between the PP and Vox:” If Vox, which does not govern, says that it will apply its electoral program, It will be at the cost of Barcala not approve of yours… you will tell us who the Alicante have voted. “
Finally, the proposal has come forward with the favorable vote of the PP and Vox, in front of the rejection of the left.
