The mayors who faced the worst fire in history are crying out to Sánchez and Feijóo for an agreement: “Let them take off their party shirt already”.
Four councillors from different parties in four of the towns most affected by the Ávila fires and the western mountains of Madrid describe their tough management and demand that the PSOE and PP sit down to negotiate solutions.
The four of them presented themselves as candidates for mayor of their town to work for their neighbors and for the streets where they grew up. All four have just experienced - and suffered - one of the most tremendous episodes at the helm of their respective town councils, none of which has more than 3,000 inhabitants. Two of the female mayors come from their last meeting at Cecopi about the most serious fire in Spanish history, the one in Burgohondo in Ávila.
Another of the mayors gets out of the car just a few minutes after attending to a new outbreak in the western mountains of Madrid. The fourth steps on the burned land with anxiety, praying with a trembling voice that the fire does not start again. Full of rage, the four mayors cry out to the two great political forces, the PSOE and the PP, and demand that their leaders, Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, put aside the chasm that separates them and negotiate a State pact.
"Let's put the party shirt aside already. Either we sit down or we will disappear," summarizes Vanessa Muñoz, a 47-year-old socialist councilor at the head of the Ávila City Council of Casavieja, one of the towns most besieged by the recent flames.
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