The motion of censure, approved by El Boaro Cerceda Mataelpino on Wednesday, authorized the installation of socialist Soledad Ávila as the new mayor to replace Sergio Sánchez Junquera (PP) in a vote of leftists and independent city councilors. … He left Vox in 2024 and became the main figure in the plenary session of Madrid’s parliament. President Isabel Díaz Ayuso and presidential advisor and regional spokesperson have both condemned Box’s censure motion and his closeness to the PSOE, but Abascal’s party has stressed that the independent lawmaker is no longer a member of the party.
“He is becoming more and more a socialist every day,” said President Miguel Ángel García Martín, Minister of Justice and Local Government, as he launched a motion to censure El Boaro Cerceda Mataelpino at Vox.
The councilor recalled in the administrative session of the plenary session that since Wednesday of this week, the PSOE mayor has been ruling in El Boaro, thanks to a censure motion supported by “elected members” from Box who left the party. Regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso also made this criticism shortly before. “That is Vox’s aim” and “to overthrow” the PP government in the town, the local president accused.
The presidential advisor and regional spokesperson urged Box to continue “cooperating with the left and the extreme left” and confessed that his speech had similarities with the socialist politician of the 1980s and the “communist” Carlos Sánchez Mato, who ran for the capital city council in Madrid en Pi, which he likened to Box’s faction, which was christened “Box Madrid sur en Pi”.
Speaking to Vox, they flatly denied that the censure motion in El Boaro was supported. “The VOX city council group would like to inform the residents of El Boaro, Cerceda and Mata el Pino that the motion of censure registered today was carried out with the support of non-affiliated member José Olmos, who has not been a member of VOX since June 2024 and does not represent the values and decisions of this party,” the party said in a statement.
“VOX deeply regrets that a city council member elected on our party’s list betrayed PSOE and Podemos and tried to change the institutional stability of the municipality and destroy a government project that has been working seriously and responsibly for the benefit of our neighbors,” the statement said.