Next year Valladolid will have a municipal budget amounting to 445 million euros and which will be dedicated to tax reduction, social strengthening and which includes increases of 12.5 percent in the line of subsidies for new businesses. … creation with the integration of strategic axes for emerging sectors. The budget managed to advance with the votes in favor of the PP and Vox and obtained the votes against the PSOE and Valladolid Take the Word.
The spokesperson for the Popular Party Group, Francisco Blanco, defended that the budget brings to the city “stability and planning, thanks to responsible management”, and recalled that its presentation acquires even greater value if we take into account that the City Council worked in a scenario of “uncertainty, without certainties, with late, incomplete and conditioned information” from the central government.
In his speech, he highlighted that the budget reduces taxes to stimulate the economy – the road tax is ten and the Icio includes bonuses of up to 50 percent for hotels and commerce – and he added that The tax benefits that residents of Valladolid will be able to benefit from amount to 12.2 million euros. “This budget contains 81 million euros of investment for our city,” he defended.
Furthermore, in response to criticism from the Socialist Group regarding the fact that the government team had liquidated the rest of the 100 million that this party had bequeathed during the previous legislature, Francisco Blanco alluded to the fact that The legacy they left was more “poisoned than that of Paquirri”, and stressed that the indicators of the increase in current expenditure, debt and deficit, advised taking measures to stop “this open bar in which the Town Hall has become mired”. “They partially denied us a loan due to the poor state of the accounts of the financial protection body,” he said, insisting that they bequeathed a project in which the PSOE invited and paid the next one.
In this sense, he recalled the Auvasa bus bills of around ten million euros that the PSOE left or the deficit that it had to assume accumulated in the 2022 and 2023 budgets of 31 and 26 million euros, respectively.
For his part, the PSOE spokesperson at Valladolid City Hall, Pedro Herrero, reached out to the PP to reach a consensus on the accounts and avoid endorsing the ideological slogans of Vox, and criticized the government team for not having a city model.
Likewise, he indicated that his group presented an amendment to the entire budget, and clarified that the most important error is not assuming the debt of railway integration, derived from the “boycott” of the agreement signed in 2017 and the deliberate non-compliance with the obligations towards the Valladolid Alta Velocity Company.
In this sense, he alluded to the fact that the Town Hall already owes the company eleven million euros in 2024 annuity, and criticized the government team for trying to distribute it pro rata and for not having a key position regarding the burial. He also considered that the government team forecasts a debt of 63 percent compared to 2025, and demanded that the PP redo the budget and negotiate the city’s investments for 2026.
Finally, he alluded to the fact that the government team will continue to collect from the low emissions zone, and criticized it for not respecting itswe are committed to creating the “mini Benabeú”, the Congress Center, the Parador Nacional, the floating swimming pool in Pisuerga Park, the Poniente bridge, or the launch of the shock cleaning plan.
Vox spokesperson María Irene Carvajal said that The PSOE bequeathed a debt of 26 million euros, and the government team succeeded in transforming the deficit into a surplus. “Among these imbalances, there are the accounts of the Municipal Culture Foundation which were in the red with the previous government team and which closed the year 2024 with a surplus for the first time,” he underlined.
Likewise, he criticized the PSOE and Valladolid Take the Word for asking for European funds to make new investments and not caring about keeping the city’s infrastructure in good condition, an action that forced them to take care of the damage caused by leaks in sports centers and civic centers.
On the other hand, she defended that Vox advisors do not sexually harass their colleagues like the “perverts of the PSOE”, and considered that the fact that Herrero addresses the PP to govern is an unaffordable risk for women.
For her part, Valladolid spokesperson Toma La Palabra, Rocío Anguita, accused the government team of not having a future plan for the city and of being employed in “selling smoke and taking photos.” Faced with this, he recalled that his group presented 20 amendments to the budget for more than five million to redirect investments and focus on the modernization of the cleaning service and the creation of new jobs in this area; the construction of social housing; the approval of an employment plan for retirements, the improvement of the Auvasa service; investments for the city; and strengthening social policies.
Finally, he stressed that there is nothing new in cultural matters and stressed that the final destination of phase 3 of Lava is not yet known nor what the Lope de Vega will be dedicated to. “What is not moving in this budget is the money for the bulls, and it is clear that they care more about the bulls than the children given the games they are dedicated to,” he criticized.
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