The mayor of Seville, the popular José Luis Sanz and Vox spokesperson at Seville City Hall, Cristina Peláezsigned their agreement this Tuesday for the plenary approval of the 2026 municipal budget project, which amounts to the “historic” amount … of more than 1,380 million euros in its consolidated figure, that is to say the Town Hall with its satellite companies and organizations.
A few minutes before the extraordinary plenary session convened this Wednesday, December 23 to debate and vote on the project of new accounts, an event during which the municipal spokesperson of Vox showed herself “satisfied with the way in which part of the policies” of her group are applied, thanks to the incorporation of different aspects, among which she highlighted a reform of the low emissions zone that governs La Cartuja with the ban on the circulation of the most polluting vehicles, gasoline vehicles registered before 2000 and diesel vehicles before 2006; “end the automatic imposition of fines and permanent traffic restrictions,” according to the document signed between the two parties.
Additionally, the pact includes a increase of an additional 4.5 million euros in the amounts allocated to business parksa specific combat function of the new Local Police Intervention Unit against illegal street vending, the “manteros”, as Peláez declared; and an intensification of checks during registration, with a “reinforced protocol to verify the residence of applications within a maximum period of 15 days, focusing on cases of doubtful residence through inspection instruments”.
Another aspect of the pact highlighted by Peláez includes the objective of “reduce the current limits” by ten percent as a limit on accommodation for tourist use on the total number of housing units in each neighborhood.
The mayor, for his part, stressed that this agreement represents “the consolidation of work” that began with the agreement between the two forces on this year’s budget and the “continuity of the policies that allowed Seville to function”being focused on municipal public services, security or green spaces.
Furthermore, he has accused of the PSOE and Podemos-IU groupswho formulated amendments in their entirety against the new accounts due to their rejection; of having “brought nothing positive” to a broader budgetary agreement, guaranteeing that the accounts established by the local government of the PP are “perfectly voteable by any political party”. “They did not have a great vision,” he said, assuring that with this new budget agreed between the local Executive and Vox “Seville, its neighborhoods and its citizens win”.
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