New ultimatum from Vox to Barcala: either he fully complies with last year's budget agreement or he will not be able to count on Abascal to approve Alicante's accounts in 2026. The ultras estimate that the popular executive still must execute about thirty agreed proposals. Otherwise, they warn, they will not move “not one centimeter”, forcing the councilor to negotiate with the left or renounce the budgets in the last full year before 2027, marked by the municipal elections.
As in the last year, when the PP approved the creation of the anti-squatter and “anti-abortion” offices (announced almost a year earlier) in the final stretch of 2024 to get a budget pact with Vox on track, This 2025 there has also been a recent “acceleration” of the popular. In recent weeks, the Barcala government has launched a contract to outsource the aforementioned “anti-abortion” office and provide it with a budget of almost one million euros. Also, this same Tuesday, the green light was given to the project to reform the Local Police station in Juan XXIII, another demand of the ultras, who assure that, in reality, what was agreed was the awarding of the works, still pending.
For all these reasons, the Vox spokesperson in Alicante, Carmen Robledillo plans to issue a new warning to the mayor Luis Barcala this same Friday, in the plenary session of Debate on the State of the City. In their intervention, the ultras intend to highlight the “immobility” of the popular government team, citing projects that, despite having the approval of the PP, remain in a drawer: a year and a half for the renovation of swings on San Francisco Street, two years for the placement of awnings on commercial streets…
In this regard, the group Vox believes that the municipal government limits itself to “making excuses for bad managers” and to distribute responsibilities between the different council departments. A mode of operation which, on the verge of a new budget negotiation, has tightened the rope between the PP and the extreme right, regular allies since Barcala's arrival to municipal power and, especially, after the departure of Ciudadanos from the Consistory in the 2023 municipal elections.
One of Vox's objectives is to direct municipal policies towards cleanliness, one of the main criticisms of citizens year after year.
With this context, the training will present to the Barcala executive two options for the approval of the 2026 accounts: comply with all the agreements reached in the negotiations last December or “embrace” a pact with the leftwho has already reached out to the mayor on different occasions to try to distance the PP from the radical positions of those of Abascal on matters such as abortion, although for now with little success.
“Excuses are not worth it that in three months there is no time,” warns the training, since they understand that The municipal executive has had one year (since the last agreement settled in December and the budget approved in January) to execute the agreement that made the validation of the accounts possible. Otherwise, Vox sources assure that their vote will be “against.”
Cleanliness and safety
In the propositional part, Barcala's preferred ally has already defined its strategy for the coming months, from which one can intuit the measures that would be required in a hypothetical new negotiation with the popular ones.
Vox's goal is direct municipal policies towards cleanliness (one of the main criticisms of citizens year after year) and security, in line with the training argument at the national level, rejecting social policies such as the shelter of unaccompanied migrant minors.
In line with this, The ultras demand “an authentic shock plan”, ambitious enough to be able to “wash an image of the city that is very damaged.” The action must optimize the collection routes to avoid the repetition of the usual overflowing containers, in addition to the mobile application launch so that, “instead of receiving 28,000 unanswered calls as we have received in six months, they become 28,000 files geolocated and resolved in 48 hours.”
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