The Community of Madrid will request the central government seven million euros as compensation for the days on which 30% of the state bonus to public transport has been paid, which the central government stopped paying last week, when, included in a decree bus. that includes this investment (which in the case of the Madrid region was in 2024), and that the Executive of Pedro Sánchez hopes to carry out with the support of Junts, the team of Isabel Díaz Ayuso will extend this invoice taking advantage of the fact that the Possibility of making compensation request.
“We are committed to asking for what is ours,” said Government spokesman, Miguel Ángel García Martín. “I hope it is automatic because the Royal Decree establishes that transient measure that allows us to face those payments,” he said. “But if you don’t do it automatically, we will ask for it,” he stressed. “These aid have been given to all Madrid’s during all the days in which the Minister of Development and the Central Government have abandoned the Spaniards using as shields of their incompetence the pensioners and transport users.”
This is what the Government designed to replace the previous one: “Through the ministerial order, the requirements and deadlines that the aid applicants must meet, as well as the conditions of the compensation or return system that the beneficiaries must establish by the days in which the measure would not have been effective in the event that the discounts referred to entry into force of this Royal Decree-Law. ”
After the defeat of the Government last week in Congress, the Madrid Executive promised to assume “for the moment” the state part of the bonus to the public transport titles. However, the regional spokesmen insisted again and again that this decision would be temporary, and hardly maintainable in the long term.
The reason is of a budgetary nature. The gap in the plans of the regional president – proposed by the vote of the PP, its party, against a decree that mixed multiple measures in a single vote, some acceptable and others not for conservatives – has no comparison with any other region. Of the 220 million that Madrid received, it passed at the 93.9 of Catalonia, the 40.4 of Andalusia or the 22.6 of the Valencian Community, according to data published in its X (former Twitter) account by Minister Óscar Puente .
The situation, in any case, was redirected on Tuesday ,. And now the Ayuso government expects to obtain compensation for the expenses in which it has incurred in the meantime.
Public transport aid was promoted by the central government in September 2022. At that time, the Executive of Pedro Sánchez, announced the 30% price subsidy, and encouraged the autonomic governments to complement it to complement that reduction financing another 20%, in order to reduce the invoice paid by the citizen in half.
The objective was to help the population in the midst of the inflationary crisis derived from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. When it was time to decide whether this program was maintained or not in 2023, the Central Executive added a condition: the state subsidy of 30%.
Consequently, Ayuso used the last Government Council of 2022 to announce that Madrid would join the project, providing the financing of its 20% in January 2023. And then the bet increased: since February of that year, its contribution has reached until 30%, so the discount in the region has shot up to 60%(with the exception of the 10 travel bonus, where the cut has remained at 50%). A policy whose impact the regional government calculated at 30 million per month. Now, Madrid hopes to recover the cost of having paid the state part of the aid between last Thursday and the approval of the new decree.
