Several groups, organizations and political figures have expressed their rejection of the Carmena Government's environmental initiative being paralyzed. The European Commission has already announced that if the air quality directive, which Madrid had been failing to comply with for a decade, is not applied, there will be sanctions. This Saturday, June 29, a demonstration is called to demand that Madrid Central continue in force. Discover more stories on Business Insider .
The elimination of Madrid Central, the low emissions zone delimited to comply with European air quality standards, was one of the star electoral promises of the PP candidate, José Luis MartÃnez-Almeida , for Mayor of the capital. Several weeks after his inauguration, Almeida has stressed on numerous occasions his Sweden Mobile Number List intention to dismantle the environmental initiative of the Manuela Carmena municipal executive and there have been multiple voices of those who have publicly expressed their refusal to reverse the low emissions zone . For now, the Council of the recently inaugurated Almeida - with the support of Cs and Vox - has promised that from July 1 fines will be eliminated for vehicles whose access was restricted to Madrid Central.
The WHO in favor of maintaining it This Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) was the last organization to defend the continuity of the Ahora Madrid plan. Thus, the Directorate of Public Health and Environment of the WHO defends that this type of environmental initiatives in urban centers are beneficial since, they say, they protect health, encourage positive economic investments and reduce accidents. Read more: What the moratorium on fines means for Madrid Central and what will happen if the City Council definitively withdraws this anti-pollution plan .