The mayor of Madrid, Jose Luis Martinez-Almeidabelieves that the latest CIS surveywhich gives victory to PSOEis a “last great service” to Pedro Sanchez and believes that it touches the crime of embezzlement. “Today’s CIS and the criminal offense of embezzlement of public funds is quite close to what the legislator thought when he proposed to include this crime in the Penal Code,” he stated in an attention to the media from Barcelona, where he has traveled to campaign with the Catalan candidate for the 23-J elections, Nacho Martin Whiteand the municipal leader, Daniel Sirera.
Almeida has also ruled on the controversy generated by the questioning of Alberto Nuñez Feijóo about him absentee ballot. From the Boquería market, he has denied that it is a strategy to “muddy” the campaign, as the socialist candidate affirms, and has wondered why Sánchez does not agree to “put all the means so that not a single vote is lost” . According to Almeida, this is what Feijóo has requested and considers it a “common sense” demand. “We are going to guarantee the most essential thing in a democracy, the vote of each one,” he claimed.
Madrid is the “Barcelona of 92”
From the Boquería market, in the center of the Catalan capital, Almeida has assured that Madrid is now the “Barcelona of 92the city that everyone admired and wanted to be in”. However, he has been confident that with the change of government in the city council, in which he wanted to remember that the PP had a decisive role, Barcelona “returns to aspire” to be the city “in which so many Spaniards have recognized themselves for so many years”. “The PP has been the one who has determined that the mayor was not pro-independence, nor that the city was subject to the radical and extremist policies of populism of the left”, he added in this sense.
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He has also confirmed that this morning, coinciding with his visit to the Catalan capital, he had a telephone conversation with Jaume Collboni and that they have been summoned to meet later. Almeida assures that he has always maintained a “cordial relationship” with the socialist and has joked that he will now appreciate them “more” after having given him the votes to be mayor.
However, Daniel Sirera He has criticized that Collboni has withdrawn from his plans to revoke the reform of the Ronda de Sant Antoni, despite promising it in the campaign. “I would like the mayor to think of the city of Barcelona and not only of his former partners”, he lamented, given the change in criteria.