From raising the cut-off mark in Teaching to a new Trans Law: the main lines of Ayuso's mandate

Apart from the important political burden, always against the backdrop of the general elections, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, recounted yesterday some of the guidelines of what will be her future regional government. A battery of measures ranging from the modification of the Trans-Autonomous Law to the discount on transport passes, through the reform of Higher Vocational Training or the drop in ratios in Secondary Education.

DISCOUNT ON TRANSPORT PASS.

Just eight days before the transport pass bonus, financed halfway between the central government and the Community of Madrid, ended, the president announced yesterday that her new government will maintain this 60% reduction until the end of the year. Also the reduction to 50% of the multi-trip tickets and the single ticket will always remain at 1.5 euros regardless of the stations that the user goes through.

Without leaving the powers of Transportation, the popular leader has promised to develop a conservation and monitoring contract for Line 7B in San Fernando de Henares with “a constant technical presence” to avoid incidents. At this time, circulation is non-existent in the area due to technical problems. In addition, the affected area on the surface will host a green area with sports facilities and gardens.

MORE COURT MARK IN TEACHING.

Education also found its space yesterday in the intervention of the regional president in which one of her proposals went through raising the degree of experimentalism of the Teaching degree. In practice, this means that the cut-off marks to access will be increased, equaling it to level 3 of Medicine, Pharmacy or some engineering. But it will also mean that students will have more options for curricular internships during their studies.

The popular leader also promised to finish the 20 unfinished educational centers in this legislature, build 13 new ones and build three Special Education centers, which will mean 900 new places. To this will be added the collaboration with the Royal Academy of Language or the Royal Academy of History so that they propose basic readings of classic texts or the creation of a General Directorate of Artistic Education.

NO LICENSES FOR HOSPITALITY.

Another of the lines in which the new Government of the Community of Madrid will advance will be the elimination of urban planning permits for the new hotel and restaurant businesses that are implemented in the region. Ayuso also pointed out that an aid plan for shops and businesses with more than 50 years operating in the capital will be started.

UP TO 50,000 HOUSES.

Already in the campaign, the regional president had announced that this would be “the legislature of housing”. Yesterday he promised to have 50,000 new homes in the Community during this mandate and that 13,000 of them are promoted by the Government through its different plans. Of the new homes, 1,200 will be included in the Young Solution Plan, with which they will be offered to people under 35 years of age for a monthly rent of less than 600 euros.

LESS TAXES.

There will be two rates on which the Community of Madrid will act directly and indirectly. The regional president promised to bring the bonus of the inheritance tax and donations to brothers, uncles and nephews, now at 25%, up to 50% and will force the PP municipalities to increase the bonus of capital gains. In the case of the Madrid town halls in the hands of the PSOE, they will be urged to do the same, which has already caused complaints in Fuenlabrada, Parla and Getafe for what they consider an “interference” in their powers as this is the second tax with which that collect the most

MORE CENTERS AND SUPPORT FOR MENTAL HEALTH.

Health, which became one of the tricky issues for Ayuso in the epilogue of the last legislature, will focus on digitization, above all with the intention of reducing waiting times. Ayuso's commitment yesterday was that there will be a delay of less than 45 days for cardiac, coronary or valve surgery; a maximum of 60 days for interventions without vital risk, such as cataracts or hip replacements, and a maximum of 90 days for the 25 most common procedures on the waiting list.

The regional government will also launch an oral health plan for the placement of prostheses and caries repair for people over 80 years of age and another for children in which glasses will also be financed. In addition, Madrid will have two new centers specializing in sexually transmitted infections -the Sandoval center will also open in the afternoon- and another for child and adolescent mental health research and prevention.

A NEW TRANS LAW.

As EL MUNDO had already announced, the Community of Madrid was working on new legislation for transsexual people that would allow them to modify Law 2/2016 and circumvent the one approved at the national level by the Ministry of Equality. Yesterday the popular leader confirmed that this would be one of the measures that will be taken in this new legislature, giving priority to the role of health professionals. De facto that means recovering psychological reports that are not required by national law.

Ayuso indicated that “legislative quality”, “the constitutionality of all articles of the law”, “educational and academic freedom” and “the non-criminalization of the intervention of professionals” will prevail. The regional leader also placed special emphasis on “equal opportunities for women in sport.” “No one is going to be left behind in their legitimate rights, but neither is social engineering going to be done at anyone's expense,” the president concluded.