The waste collection workers of Madrid this Sunday afternoon and left the city with more than, the equivalent of the three -day waste. The Madrid City Council has strengthened the service last night by 30%. “We hope to recover normality throughout the next few hours,” said the delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante (PP). He also explained that, until the situation is solved, almost twice as much garbage will be removed from what is collected in normal circumstances.
The popular councilor has recognized “the generosity, patience and commitment of the Madrid”, who have strictly followed the recommendations of the City Council to alleviate the effects of the strike in the. “In the last hours, we have seen that there has been more garbage in the street because the Madrid have taken what they had accumulated throughout these days,” he said.
During the six days that the strike has lasted, the problems have accumulated for the government team that, despite not being directly involved in the negotiations, must guarantee the minimum health conditions in the city. As Carabante has advanced, the Madrid City Council has sanctioned the company in charge of that service with a fine that already amounts to two million euros for not complying with the minimum services. The company now has a period to present allegations.
The criticism of the opposition to the management of this crisis has gone in two directions. On the one hand, more Madrid has accused the municipal government of being on the side of the employer. “We have to celebrate that garbage collection workers have achieved basic things with their strike such as not freezing their salaries. They have done so bending the pulse to the contractor companies of the Madrid City Council and a government, that of [José Luis Martínez] Almeida, who has set aside the companies and not of the workers of this service, ”said the spokeswoman of Más Madrid, Rita Maestre.
For its part, the PSOE has criticized that the mayor of Madrid has not been involved in such a serious matter and that he has delegated responsibility in his councilor. “He is not trained to be mayor of Madrid,” said the socialist spokeswoman, Reyes Maroto.
The delegate of Urbanism has come out in defense of Almeida and has indicated that “the mayor has been promoting this agreement.” “One of the statements that were decisive when arriving at that agreement was precisely the decision of the mayor to say that today, regardless of whoever did, the garbage was going to be collected in the city of Madrid,” he added.
The delegate has not let the opportunity to return the coup to the opposition, especially Maroto, to which he has defined as “a person who is absolutely irrelevant in Madrid politics.” “I have not received a proposal from any opposition group,” he added.
