«This is a question for the legal services, they are the ones who have to analyze the filing of an appeal, and more than one appeal before the Supreme Courtwhich is a technically very complex issue,” said the councilor. Thus, he explained that if the legal services consider that the appeal is viable, they will present it because it is a “formal defect that can be corrected.”
The mayor considers that the current model of the city is “a success” and is something “indisputable.” «We are facing a model that is neither that of Vox, nor that of the left in the Madrid City Councilwhich allows, on the one hand, that economically we are the economic engine of Spain and continue to grow, and that from the point of view of environmental sustainability, we have never had better pollution data,” he stated. To this, she added that there is “the best data” on pollution in the city and a system of alternatives to the use of private vehicles has been generated through the Municipal Transport Company (EMT).
«We are convinced that this model works, that it is a model specific to the city of Madrid and (…) Madrid residents breathe much better air than Parisians, Romans or Berliners,” he said. “As long as the sentence is not final, all the articles continue to apply,” he recalled. Almeida in an interview in Onda Madridwho has assured that his Government municipal has been subjected to “the pressures of Vox» and to the left, who believe that «it is never enough and who intends to sacrifice the economy for the sake of sustainability».
Vox asks for his resignation
The Vox spokesperson in the Madrid City Council, Javier Ortega Smithcalled for the resignation of the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeidaon a “day of joy” after the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice (TSJM) and announced that they will study the provisional execution of the sentence. After these statements, the mayor recalled that the people of Madrid gave him an absolute majority and expressed that the spokesperson “lives obsessed” with him.
«With all my respect, the criteria of 750,000 Madrid residents who voted for the Popular Party deserves more respect from me than the criteria that Javier Ortega has. I believe that it is no longer a political issue, I believe that it has had a personal issue with me for several years, no one has insulted or disqualified me more frequently or more grossly than Javier Ortega Smith,” he criticized.
On the other hand, the spokespersons for PSOE and Más Madrid, Reyes Maroto and Rita Maestre, have asked him to appeal this decision of Justice. Given this, Almeida welcomed the recognition that the regulations “were working.” «I am glad that they recognize that a model different from theirs, profoundly different from that of the left in the city of Madrid, says that it is working, and it seems to me that they should say it publicly in front of all the citizens of Madrid, because for years I “They have called him a denier,” he reproached.
