2023-12-15 23:04:58
The Ceuta Budget for 2024, almost 400 million euros, on whose approval the salary update of thousands of public employees depends and a plethora of subsidies with hundreds of indirect jobs, among other things, hang by a thread due to the quasi-rupture of relations between the PSOE and the regional PP, dating for three years. An accumulation of political spite more typical of a sentimental triangle in which the localist formations of the Arab-Muslim electorate (and the unanimous isolation of Vox) and personal interests intersect the pulse in which the stability of the city is settled.
Vivas (PP) rejects the PSOE’s offer to govern Ceuta in a coalition because he prefers to “talk to everyone”
On the day of the Immaculate Conception, the general secretary of the PSOE of Ceuta, Juan Gutiérrez, proposed to the president of the Autonomous City, Juan Vivas (PP), to resume the wedding plans in the form of a coalition government that Ferraz frustrated in August with a resounding slam the door: “With Feijóo’s party, which insults us every two words, spreads hoaxes daily and has zero respect for President Sánchez, there is nothing to do at the level of pacts [estables y formales]”.
Resentful since the summer, when the de facto powers of Ceuta pressured him to renounce his inclination to ally this legislature with the localist parties that, like the PP, emerged stronger from the 28M elections, Vivas has responded with pumpkins to the act of socialist contrition that The popular locals have interpreted “without talking to Génova” as “a crude maneuver to rinse their agreement with EH Bildu in Pamplona at a national level.”
Sánchez himself has connected the two alliances from Strasbourg: “The daily reality of citizens from one place or another varies and depending on that, the degree of responsibility that political groups have: in the case of the PSOE it has always been to provide stability and move the Cities and Autonomous Communities forward.”
The last municipal elections left the PP with nine of the 25 seats in the Ceuta Assembly and three possible pairs to achieve sufficient majorities: the PSOE (which was left with six deputies after losing one and 1,500 votes), Vox (which fell from six to five) and the localist parties with an eminently Muslim electorate that grew, the MDyC to three and Ceuta Ya! to two.
During the previous legislature, Vivas, the most moderate and loyal to Sánchez of the PP barons, supported first the PSOE, then Vox (one year, 2020, from which he emerged so scalded by the attacks of the extremists at 50% of the Spanish Arab-Muslim Ceutíes who have sworn never to join the extreme right again) and again in the socialists, who in summer demanded “to be inside” a coalition government to maintain their support for the regional Executive.
The leader of the Popular Party of Ceuta, which has governed since 2001 and has garnered two out of every three votes in the city, emerged from the polls convinced of allying with the localists in their bid to strengthen intercultural coexistence. After Sánchez’s victory in July, by surprise, he pivoted and agreed to give three council offices and several municipal companies to the PSOE, but Ferraz vetoed such an agreement when, in August, Feijóo demanded from Sánchez at the national level something similar to what he was about to do. be forged in the Spanish North African city.
These months the Socialists have continued to be the specific support of the PP to approve the new local PGOU and, initially and with the MDyC, the 2024 Budgets, in which three weeks ago they boasted of having included 75 million euros in social investments. Until the last encounter. Now the PSOE threatens to vote against these accounts and, perhaps together with Vox and Ceuta Ya!, block them with the presumed collapse.
The pulse has internal and very personal derivatives. According to all the sources consulted by elDiario.es, the socialists not only demand a coalition government, but also that Vivas renounce municipalizing the public street cleaning service, the most expensive, since 2013 in the hands of one of the business groups, Makerel. , who have put more pressure on the PP this year to forget the localists and continue with the PSOE.
If the president consummates his will, the leader of the Ceuta socialists will be forced before the summer to resign from his job as general manager of garbage (50,500 euros net per year) or from his political career (which now brings him almost 25,500 extra). , which would become incompatible. The only way that Gutiérrez would have to maintain his current income and his record is through a seat on the Governing Council, whose members will start earning 46% more than now, 79,900 gross euros per year, starting January 1.
Pressured by the PSOE and vetoed by Vox despite having lowered that of its previous spokesperson in the Assembly, Carlos Verdejo, by three notches, relegated to nothing in parliament, the PP only has to see if, as some sources point out, the swings of the Socialist Group end. causing a fracture in your breast by action or omission or approaching the localists again.
With the MDyC of Fatima Hamed, who has been moving away from Sumar after being part of its founding core, he has it pretty well done. That party supported the 2024 Budget at the end of November and its leader is more than a serious candidate to access, with the support of the PP, a Vice Presidency of the Governing Board of the Assembly after the departure of the socialist Cristina Pérez as the new delegate of the Government in Ceuta.
Between both formations there are 12 deputies, one short of the absolute majority, but the two from Ceuta Ya!, former allies of Podemos, refuse to be a “convenience” crutch for the PP. The party led by Mohamed Mustafa believes that Vivas betrayed him in the summer and that he has never kept his word. He basically considers that he uses them when he undermines his relationship with the PSOE, which has less than 15 days to definitively break the cord or not.
Last Tuesday, the Council of Ministers appointed Cristina Pérez, the Secretary of Organization of the local PSOE, as a new delegate of the Government in the autonomous city, who until now was an autonomous deputy and vice president of the Governing Board of the Assembly, designated throughout the last legislature by part of the opposition as a “squatter” for taking advantage of an administrative back-and-forth to stay as the tenant of a cheap rental VPO for young people when she was already earning 4,000 euros per month.
“In any other part of Spain that would ethically disqualify her for any position,” say anonymously politicians from different parties in the city who do not want to clash in public with the new representative of Sánchez’s Executive in Ceuta, whose local administration lives off the transfers from the State, which continues to manage Education and Health directly as in Melilla with terrible results.
Pérez’s promotion has generated a domino effect that has brought the deputy general secretary of the PSOE of Ceuta, Melchor León, to the Assembly as presumed second vice president.
The until now delegate of the central government and previous muñidor in 2020 of a frustrated attempt at a motion of censure with PP turncoats against Vivas, Rafael García, who replaced Salvadora Mateos, mother 13 months ago after an armed war for organic power of Sánchez’s former Press Chief, has remained as Chief of Staff.
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