The Valencian PSOE did not include the request for a temporary levelling fund to compensate for the underfunding of the Valencian Community in its proposals for resolutions for the general policy debate.
The party led by the minister Diane Morant This demand has thus been revised downwards, on which until recently there was a consensus between the political parties (with the exception of Vox) and the Valencian unions and employers.
This fund, which equalizes the resources received by the Valencian Community to the national average while the regional financing system is reformed, was one of the demands of the previous regional president, the socialist Ximo Puig.
The Valencian socialists, however, advocate in the parliamentary initiatives registered this Wednesday after the speech of Carlos Mazonfor a “new regional financing system that takes into account the unique character of the Comunitat Valenciana and the rest of the autonomous communities” and for the cancellation of the debt.
The current position of the PSPV is that this fund is a “patch” and it defends that a window of opportunity has opened to reform the financing model, outdated for a decade.
“Dialectical Pirouettes”
The parliamentary spokesperson of the PSPV, Jose Muñozsaid in media statements on Thursday that his party’s position is “honest.”
“We want a reform in the terms proposed by the President of the Government on the singularity of the territories, cohesion and the principles of sufficiency, equity and fiscal co-responsibility,” he declared.
At this point, he criticized the Popular Party for voting this Wednesday in the Senate against the transitional fund that Mazón “demands so much”. He urged the head of the Consell to stop doing “dialectical pirouettes”: “He comes here and defends us a leveling fund voted against in Madrid by the Valencian senators of the PP themselves”.
Faced with this, he defended the “honest” position of the socialists: “We want a reform in the terms proposed by the president of the government of the singularity of the territories, of cohesion and of the principles of sufficiency, of equity and of fiscal co-responsibility.”
The mediators of the PP, Juanfran Pérez, and of the PSPV, José Muñoz, this Thursday in Les Corts
In this sense, he asked the Consell to accept “once and for all” the debt relief proposed by the Spanish government, given that this measure “would relieve the Valencian public coffers of 15 billion euros.”
For his part, the Valencian PPin its motion for a resolution on financing, calls for both the new system and the levelling fund of more than 1.7 billion euros and the restructuring of the Valencian Community’s debt. Three demands with which you agree Commitments.
Despite the internal debate within the Popular Party on the position to adopt regarding the cancellation of the debt, Mazón has positioned himself in favor of a restructuring, although he rejects a bilateral negotiation with Sánchez.
Mazón believes that “a small amount of debt to cover the Catalan quota” is harmful and is committed to “a serious process that recognizes the underfunding.”
For the Valencian president, it is necessary to “address a serious process of restructuring the debt in Spain.” “That is exactly what we are doing and no one will force us to lower our just demands in this matter a little,” he added during an informative breakfast a week ago.
“It’s very serious”
Carlos Mazón described it as “very serious” that the PSOE has “renounced” this temporary levelling fund. The head of the Consell regretted that “we all agree, except the PSOE until yesterday, that the A temporary levelling fund is urgent and the first thing to do.”
In this regard, he explained that if the demands to the Central Executive focus only on part of the debt, “the day after tomorrow we will have it again because we will continue to spend more than what was brought to us.”
“If we do not change the financing system or, at least, if we do not have a stabilization fund, the debt will be today’s bread and tomorrow’s hunger,” he said. For Mazón, if the debt is conditioned to “the use of the Catalan quota, things start to look doubtful.”
President Mazón at an event this Thursday. EE
Mazón therefore recalled that “there is no proposal from the government regarding the debt, there are no conditions, no demands or absolutely nothing.”
“If the PSOE has something to say, let it say it, let it explain it and let it propose it, because we are in the area of steam, of smoke, as always black so that there is no question of a Catalan quota and the plundering of the equal rights of all Spaniards, as is happening at the moment,” he added.
“What seems very serious to me is that it was the PSOE that expressly renounced a transition fund that would put us on an equal footing with the others until everything is resolved,” Mazón denounced.
