Sánchez’s offers that Ayuso’s PP does accept: 170 million for Universities, 110 for Cañada Real or 150 to bury the A-5 | Madrid News

The clash between the Community and the Madrid City Council (PP) with the Government of Spain (PSOE and Sumar) will experience a rare truce this Wednesday: the regional executive will give the green light to sign with the Ministry of Universities the María Goyri Program, which will finance 1,091 teaching positions thanks to an investment shared by the State (169.8 million, 60%) and Madrid (112.3). The agreement, reached after a battle lost by the regional administration, is almost exceptional. So far this term, the two main administrations of Madrid have barely reached an agreement with the government on a handful of minor agreements and on matters that involved large state investments: 110 million for the relocation of the Cañada Real (the Community provides another 110 , and Madrid and Rivas share the same number); 150 for the second section of the A-5 underground (in the first the capital will invest 400); the 169.8 from the María Goyri program; or Operation Camp, which will build more than 10,000 homes with a state investment of more than 1,000 million.

“For less than 100 million they do not come close, it is a shame that they only agree when there is a check in the middle,” laments a source from the central government, where it stings that the agreements are not extended to the dialogue and coordination initiatives that it launches. through its delegate in the region, Francisco Martín.

This is explained by a spokesperson for the regional government. “We always work for and for the people of Madrid thinking about what is best for them. A different thing are the cacicadas that the Government tries to establish itself with,” they argue at the Royal Post Office, where the delegate is described as “disloyal,” as he accompanies his outstretched hand offers with constant criticism of Ayuso and the mayor of the capital, José. Luis Martínez Almeida. As a result, the president and the delegate have only met once.

Nothing sums up the situation better than two announcements made this Tuesday. On the one hand, the minister and new general secretary of the Madrid PSOE, Óscar López, says after the meeting of the Council of Ministers that the State has just approved a transfer of 40 million to launch the National Neurotechnology Center in Cantoblanco (Madrid) .

“There will be collaboration, there would be more to do,” explains López about a facility that will receive up to 200 million between now and 2037, of which The government of Spain will contribute 60% (120), and the Community of Madrid (78) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (2), the remaining 40%..

But that’s as far as understanding between administrations goes. Almost in parallel, President Pedro Sánchez announces the organization of a hundred events to celebrate the 50 years of “Spain in freedom” in 2025, coinciding with the death of the dictator Francisco Franco. The reaction of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of Madrid, is withering: in addition to accusing the leader of the central executive of wanting to “burn the streets and cause violence,” and of having “gone crazy,” she clarifies that her government “will not join a only from these events and initiatives.”

Because without investments involved, the ideological, political, and strategic clash is total. “This is outrageous,” the government delegate reacts to what the conservative baroness said. “It should disqualify her from any type of public responsibility. [Alberto Núñez] Feijóo is taking a long time to disavow it.”

The crossing of positions photographs that there is no bridge left between Sánchez and Díaz Ayuso. The relationship is broken. And this radical disagreement is transferred to their organizations in Madrid.

On October 19, two simultaneous incidents in Chamartín and Atocha unleashed railway chaos and left thousands of passengers stuck. The following week, the government delegate launched a very serious accusation: he stated that Martínez-Almeida had opted for an “institutional blockade” that “puts citizens in danger,” since, according to his version, he had called him to coordinate the response to the situation (the firefighters and the National Police disagreed on the management) and he had not picked up the phone. The problem, always according to the delegate, occurred in the first instance with the vice mayor, Inma Sanz, with whom he was later able to contact. The councilor’s number two accused Martín of crossing “the red line of disloyalty and shamelessness.”

Against this backdrop, dialogue between administrations, according to the central government, is almost non-existent. Thus, they point out in the delegation, the offers to form tripartite coordination tables to analyze the housing situation or address social emergencies in specific points such as San Cristóbal de los Ángeles, the El Paraíso de San Blas park, Vallecas, have not come to fruition. Lavapiés, homes of the Community Social Housing Agency or the Soto de Henares neighborhood of Torrejón de Ardoz.

Neither did the requests that the regional government help in the task of encouraging local police in the region to join the VioGen system to combat gender violence, which caused a harsh exchange of reproaches between the delegate and counselor Carlos Steer. “It seems shameful to me, honestly, that with data that we are having that is worrying in that sense, in sexual crimes, the delegate has that idea,” said Ayuso’s subordinate.

And the proposal to form a technical committee of the regional transport consortium to develop contingency plans to mitigate incidents that affect travelers, for example in Cercanías, which depends on the State, has not come to fruition.

In contrast, Madrid has requested the development of Comprehensive Suburban Investment Plan; improving security with the provision of a greater number of civil guard and police personnel, ensuring autonomy in water management by the Canal de Isabel II; improving investments in energy or improving the management of immigration policy. All topics that have been the subject of confrontation, but not agreement. Yes, collaboration agreements have been signed in Housing, Transport (with the construction of the HOV bus on the A-2, agreed in 2018 with Ángel Garrido as president); Statistics, Environment (creation of an attached unit of forestry and environmental agents in the Coordinating Prosecutor’s Office for the Environment and Urban Planning), Digitalization (to access the INE registry database) and Education (to provide vocational training teachers), as indicated by the regional executive.

The underlying reason for the clash is that Sánchez and Ayuso have built their careers in opposition over the last five years. If there was a time in which this clash was settled in the courts (with fifteen appeals from Madrid against state decisions, or two appeals from the central government before the Constitutional Court against regional laws), it has been months since the body was reached body.

And that marks everything now: from Ayuso’s rudeness when she was summoned to La Moncloa, in October, to her decision to organize a commission in the Assembly to investigate the alleged “favorable treatment” received by Sánchez’s wife in their relationship. professional with the Complutense, going through his decision to leave the delegate without a speech in the last regional tribute to the Constitution. A decision that led to Martín organizing his own event a day later. The reflection of a broken relationship that is only resumed when there are large investments involved.