After having criticized the left during the two Botànic legislatures for its last minute agreements on the closure of regional budgets, it is now the PP government of Carlos Mazón is the one facing a negotiation where your chances of success depend his former partners at Voxwho broke the agreement a few months ago on the direct orders of Santiago Abascal of Madrid.
It was the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, who recognized that there already exists “Previous meetings with Vox” regarding the 2025 budget of the Generalitat, as his former partner had requested. “The Vox group has requested meetings and they are taking place”said Mazón, according to Europe Pressafter having made an institutional visit to the Meliana Town Hall.
The president insists that They are ready to talk “with whomever it is necessary” because “it is a government which dialogues and speaks with everyone”, he underlined. “I am surprised that some are not so interested because, when we talk about the budgets of the Generalitat, we have taken the trouble to finalize them and, above all, to prioritize what we know to be most important, namely health. policies and dependency policies,” he added.
In this sense, he stressed that in the budgetary project that his Consell must present this month to Les Corts and whose development will be a real decisive test, “advances” are being made in reduce the tax burden “because the Valencians do not have the right to suffer more tax pressure than the rest of the Spaniards,” he said, adding that they also wanted to advance “in the policy of freedom, coexistence, incentives to the economy, to wealth, by attracting investments. and administrative simplification.
Conference of Presidents
On the other hand, the Vice President and Councilor for Social Services, Equality and Housing, Susana Camarero, qualified “disappointing” the preparatory meeting for the Conference of Presidents and declared that it is “a joke that the date of the Conference has not been announced, while we are ending the year and the presidents’ diaries are closed”: “It is a lack of respect for all the citizens we represent in the autonomous communities. leaders”.
This was stated in statements to the media after the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced that the agenda of the Conference of Presidents would also include regional financing, immigration and health, as requested by the communities governed by the PP. adding to the housing problem at the request of the Government.
“The fact of not communicating the date two months before the end of the year can only be for two reasons: that they do not want to inform the autonomy or that they will not hold the Conference directly,” he said. – he launched.
Furthermore, he argued that “the government repeats the maneuver of calling meetings without foresight” and wondered if it “seeks to adapt it to the personal agenda of Pedro Sánchez, in his strategy of distracting from the problems that the president addresses.”
That said, the vice president appreciated that the government included on the agenda “issues that “president” Carlos Mazón has been demanding for a long time and which must mark the agenda of all leaders because they are questions of State, as he said. manifested the majority of autonomy”.
Among these issues, he mentioned housing due to the situation of social drama and social crisis which causes the rise in prices, “due to the inaction and lack of policy of the Botànic government for eight years, as well as the obstacles generated by the government housing law, which caused a reduction in the number of housing units on the rental market.
The waiter defended the need to talk about regional funding to address “this new and necessary reform within the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council (CPFF), as well as the equalization fund which is also one of the demands of the Valencian Community”.
According to him, it is also essential to talk about immigration, “an issue on which four ministries have powers that do not coordinate with each other and which must be addressed to avoid the crisis that we are witnessing every week, with people who risk their lives. .life at sea.”
