Zaragoza

Zaragoza en Común accuses Chueca of turning health into a bargaining chip after Vox deal on Low Emission Zone

The agreement reached by the PP and Vox to stop applying restrictions in the Low Emission Zone has been criticized by Zaragoza en Común, which says Natalia Chueca’s government is putting Vox’s demands before public health.
Zaragoza en Común accuses Chueca of turning health into a bargaining chip after Vox deal on Low Emission Zone

The group has particularly questioned the announced system, which requires five of the eight municipal monitoring stations to simultaneously exceed certain nitrogen dioxide levels for two consecutive hours before restrictions are activated.

However, according to ZeC, the PP and Vox are now announcing a general activation system based exclusively on nitrogen dioxide, relegating particulate matter, which is also harmful to health, to certain specially protected roads. For Zaragoza en Común, what has changed since then is neither the legal obligations nor the pollution problems, but Chueca’s need to reach a budget agreement with Vox.

The group argues that Zaragoza cannot claim to be a sustainable and climate-neutral city while agreeing to deactivate measures aimed at reducing traffic pollution, and insists that public health cannot become a bargaining chip in agreements between the PP and Vox.

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