The Valencian president, Carlos MazonI will go to face to face with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezwith a long list of demands from the Valencian Community that go beyond what is the Gordian core of Valencian politics for years: the reform of the regional financing system.
Precisely, the popular baron will appear this Friday in La Moncloa after the united front formed by the majority of Valencian political parties and social agents to demand this change and a solution to Valencian underfunding was divided after the agreement between Sánchez and ERC for a single system for Catalonia.
Mazón attends the meeting with the request for a temporary leveling fund this already compensates for the lack of resources of the Valencian Community compared to the average of the autonomies of the common regime until the entry into force of the new model. In the Valencian case, The Generalitat estimates more than 1,700 million euros per year the money that would correspond to it, in a claim that it shares with communities like Andalusia governed by the equally popular Juanma Moreno.
This point, which can be considered fundamental 56 requests which he will put on the table of the President of the Government, was the one who led the Valencian socialists to break the traditional Valencian political unity in terms of financing. He The PSPV does not currently consider the creation of this instrument as essential until the reform is approved, and instead accuses Mazón of rejecting the possibility of negotiating a reduction in regional debt the State taking advantage of the future Catalan concert, to which the people are vehemently opposed.
According to the document already sent to Sánchez for the meeting agenda, Mazón will also ask for “the same treatment” if another autonomy is accepted, “with clear criteria and without compensation”, but rejecting any bilateral negotiation to agree of a unique negotiation in Catalonia.
Other debts
Among the 56 demands, the transfer of the management of the Minimum Vital Income (IMV) is requested and the payment by the State of 50% of dependency benefitswhich will be located at 3,441 million euros pending at the end of the year. It is also necessary againcompensation for healthcare expenses for displaced patientswhich amounts to almost 800 million.
Also that the government fully assumes the “real” financial cost of taking charge of migrant minorssince “the cost of their service is six six million per year”, and they establish “the provisions necessary for the correct determination of your age”.
Other demands will be that the Government transfers the funds of the Youth Rental Bonus 2024-2025 to the communities and specifies the new National Housing Plan 2026-2029, in which it estimates that the Generalitat should demand at least 200 million euros.
Water and symbols
Mazón also insists on what constitutes one of his great conflicts with the central executive: water. Thus, it takes 200 million to regenerate the coast and other 202.7 million for ongoing water actions in the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ), some of which affect the sanitation of the Natural Park of The Albufera of Valenciain addition to claiming that there are no more cuts in the Tajo-Segura transfer.
A section also the “historical justification” of the return of the Lady of Elche to her city. A question that has been at the center of controversy for years, since the Ministry of Culture ensures that technicians advise against its transfer from the National Archaeological Museum for conservation reasons.
