The political battle between the People’s Party and Vox in the Community of Madrid escalated several degrees this week, ahead of the elections Discussing regional budgets for 2026. Abascal’s party will defend its amendment on Thursday in plenary session … To its entirety, we will demand the return of public accounts. He will not do it alone, because the two leftist parties, the PSOE and MAS Madrid, will do the same. In addition, Vox has introduced 924 partial amendments, compared to 619 amendments last year, which if approved would completely change Ayuso’s budgets, which focus on issues such as the “national priority” of aid, subsidies and public services.
The absolute majority of the People’s Party in Madrid in the Assembly today will strike down the three amendments of all opposition groups and will do the same with the vast majority of partial amendments. Last year, the Popular Party accepted only fifteen amendments out of nearly three thousand submitted by the PSOE, MAS Madrid and Vox.
Although the final outcome is predictable, the fight is guaranteed to be over again. The usual battle between the left and the regional government is joined by the battle between the Vox Party and the People’s Party of Madrid in general and with its president in particular. The observation sessions begin every week with a clash between Ayuso and the spokeswoman for the Vox party, Isabel Pérez Monino, who has nothing to envy, in terms of the level of tension and argumentative toughness, of the left’s confrontations with the president. Regional sources say: “The Vox party is increasingly leaning towards the left.”
Presidential advisor and regional government spokesman, Miguel Angel Garcia, criticized that the Vox party is “contacting again” with the left regarding the amendments being discussed in the Assembly. Regarding Vox’s intention to demand “national priority,” he stressed that “all Madrid residents have the right to access public services,” even though Vox is trying to “distort the matter.” “What is really unique is that Vox is once again voting with the left and the far left, against calculations that involve continuing to improve public services and continuing to attract investment and employment,” he warned.
The “political class” of the two-party system
This week, after the Spokesmen’s Council, Monino was frank in placing the PP and the PSOE within a “mafia political class” and pitting Vox against the two: “The Madridists have been stunned by the political drift of the two-party system, while their problems remain unresolved,” he denounced. Vox shows “endless distance” with the Socialist Party, but is not far behind when referring to the People’s Party by criticizing the “privileges of the two-party system.”
Ayuso’s government criticizes the “cohesion” of the Vox party in the Assembly “with the left and the extreme left”
In its partial amendments, far from the “national priority”, Vox will demand, with regard to health issues, the construction of two critical hospitals and 31 health centers in basic health areas, as well as “the restoration of 1,200 beds that have been lost since Ayuso became president.” It also proposes tax cuts on expenses for prosthetics, orthotics, oral treatments, orthodontics and eyeglasses “with the application of the principle of national priority.” Additionally, “to ensure true freedom in choosing a physician and center,” it calls for the publication of individual data on patient satisfaction for each office and health center, “so that patients can exercise that freedom in an informed way.”
In the education department, he calls for the gradual implementation of a school voucher, a personal income tax deduction on education costs for young people under 30, and more inspection to avoid indoctrination in classrooms.