The PSOE of Valladolid has expelled from the party its three city councilors from Villabrágima (Valladolid, about 1,000 inhabitants), who had agreed with Vox on a motion of censure to exclude the PP from the mayor's office and give it to a city councilor from the Ultra party who was already mayor of this city. The Socialists of Castilla y León have based their political line on attacks on the PP's agreements with Vox, which is why the movement in the aforementioned city of Valladolid led to the sudden expulsion of the city councilors who had approved the creation of Santiago Abascal. The mayoralty will go to Víctor Arce, who was a PSOE councilor for eight years before joining Vox, and will thus take the position still held by Noelia García. The two representatives of Vox will distance themselves from their party and in this way the municipal administration will be in the hands of five non-attached councilors, expelling three from the PSOE and the two rebels from Vox against the four from the PP.
The move had been brewing for months and did not receive the support of the respective party leaderships. In the last local elections, the city council was taken over by the PP and its four councilors, compared to the three socialist councilors and Vox's two. The conservatives won the mayoralty for Noelia García despite being in the minority, but she barely lasted a year at the helm of the city after her opponents cracked down. The Socialists and Vox had already prevented the PP initiatives from flourishing by pooling their votes and agreed to carry out the motion of no confidence announced on February 21st. Then there will be a vote in the plenary session and, unless there is a drastic change, Víctor Arce (Vox) will receive the office of first mayor. Arce begins his third term in office in Villabrágima, where he was mayor for eight years (2007-2015), albeit under the acronym PSOE.
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The secretary of the Socialist Organization of Valladolid, Francisco Ferreira, has condemned the movement and announced the immediate expulsion of the three city councilors, all in accordance with the formation's statutes. “The agreements and decisions made by the party's leadership bodies have been violated and not respected, since the PSOE will never agree with the extreme right in any institution,” stressed Ferreira, who emphasizes that only the PP, as in the Junta de Castilla and León, makes pacts with the extreme right.
The socialist leader in Castilla y León, Luis Tudanca, has expressed himself on social networks as follows: “We oppose the extreme right.” The two Vox city councilors tried to overthrow the PP, but its creation prevented them from doing so , so this week they cut ties with the party in order to continue the alliance with the former Socialists and change the political course of Villabrágima. Therefore, the city is governed by five independent representatives who have no connection to any parties.
According to Vox's version, the motion of censure does not bear his signature, since the two council members presented a letter this Tuesday informing them of their transfer to the group of “non-attached” council members. City council sources have told Efe that the motion of censure was registered before this change in the status of the councilors, so the motion bears the signature of the two Vox councilors and the three PSOE councilors.
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The current mayor, Noelia García, assures that the population reacted “very badly” to this proposal, which, in her opinion, was perceived by voters of both parties as a “fraud and betrayal”. The mayor, who therefore considers all possibilities of finding a solution before the debate on this motion of censure to be “broken”, has indicated that after “many years of work for the city” she will go to the opposition “with her head held high”. , such as his most recent project for a nursing home, which was ultimately the trigger for this motion of no confidence, he explained. For his part, the leader of the PP of Valladolid, Conrado Íscar, described this pact between PSOE and Vox, which will take away the post of mayor of the municipality from the Popular Party, as a “disgrace”; “Anything is possible and unfortunately something that they had been threatening for months has happened,” he told the media.
The news was confirmed just two days before this Saturday. Social representatives, unions, opposition parties and more than 100 social institutions will take part in a demonstration in Valladolid against the policies of the PP-Vox coalition in the board. The President of the Provincial Council of Valladolid, Conrado Íscar (PP), regretted the “anything is possible” of the motion of censure planned against the people after these months of Noelia García's minority mandate, since the opposition had voted negatively on the bill. a nursing home in the community and had shown his consent to García. Íscar has described the agreement as a “pact of shame” and attacked Óscar Puente, general secretary of the PSOE in Valladolid and transport minister, asking him: “What do you think of the support for Vox” from his former training colleagues?