Thursday, March 28

More Madrid demands the resignation of Almeida and the PSOE asks Feijóo to “purify political responsibilities”

The case of the collection of millionaire commissions for the contracts closed by the City Council, which is being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, as revealed by elDiario.es, and in which a relative of the mayor of Madrid mediated, has outraged opposition groups. For the spokeswoman for Más Madrid, Rita Maestre, these new revelations are “very serious facts” that must lead to the resignation of the mayor. “Today we have learned that in the case of the contracts a relative of Almeida is also involved, a cousin who was the one who allegedly brought those two businessmen who have spent six million public money, who have remained in quality of illegal commissions and they have spent it on cars, watches and yachts”, said Maestre. “It seems increasingly clear that friends and relatives of the PP dedicated themselves to looting public money in the worst of the pandemic while hundreds of people died in Madrid,” she lamented.

“These are very serious events and Almeida cannot continue to hide, he has to come out and show his face immediately, he has to give explanations to the people of Madrid and, if he is not able to give them, he has to step aside and resign. , because Madrid cannot return to the times of scam and corruption. Madrid deserves a clean government that uses public money to provide public services and not to line the pockets of its friends”, he has settled.

The PSOE has raised this issue with the new leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez a Feijóo, asking him to adopt drastic measures to “purify political responsibilities” in the party. “Given this latest information, the mayor cannot continue to hide, he has to show his face. For this reason, we are going to ask for a monographic appearance on this Anti-corruption investigation in the next plenary session”. “We wonder if the new PP of Feijóo is going to set up internal mechanisms to purge possible political responsibilities”, she said to questions from elDiario.es the spokeswoman for the Socialist Group in the Madrid City Council, Mar Espinar.

For its part, the Mixed Group led by Marta Higueras has also considered that “if this new information, it would be very serious that a series of businessmen have charged millionaire commissions for their proximity and closeness to a relative of Mayor Martínez-Almeida. “Although this can no longer surprise anyone, it is the partisan use that the PP usually makes of the institutions every time it governs,” said the deputy spokesman, José Manuel Calvo.

“What we ask ourselves is how long the other opposition parties are going to accept this situation and are going to look the other way, distracted by investigative commissions that we are already seeing that they are not going to serve to clarify any of these scandals.” “From Recupera Madrid we believe that the mayor is unable to continue managing public affairs due to all these cases and also due to his mismanagement throughout this legislature,” he later sentenced.

For this reason, they propose again that “all the groups unite and put their seats at the service of Begoña Villacís so that she promotes a motion of censure against Almeida that makes the leader of Ciudadanos mayor and ”that she establish a transitional government from here to elections that clarify all these cases that are under suspicion of corruption on the City Council“. ”It is essential to remove the PP from the Government of the Madrid City Council. His good name must be restored“, Calvo has settled.





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