The majority of the members of the Platform for a Just Finançament see in the investiture of Pedro Sánchez that will take place this week an “opportunity” to solve the problem of regional financing that condemns the Valencian Community to be the autonomy that makes the least transfers. receives in the current model. Despite the doubts expressed by the PP – the employers preferred yesterday to focus on demanding a cancellation of the historical debt of at least 70% of it -, the left-wing parties and unions consider that the formation of the new government “can favor” Valencian demands.
The Platform for Just Finançament met yesterday with representatives of the parliamentary groups of Les Corts – with the exception of Vox, which delegitimizes this type of requests – to endorse the unity of the majority of the parties and civil society on this matter.
Everyone agreed that this is a key moment and, in fact, next Friday an event will be held in Valencia to involve the deputies and senators of the Cortes Generales in the demands of the Platform. Political representatives of the Congress and the Senate will sign – together with representatives of the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces – the catalog of demands to the new central government: reform of the system, investments in accordance with the population weight (and execution thereof); and that “the State assumes the accumulated debt that the Generalitat Valenciana has incurred over the years due to chronic underfinancing.”
The left-wing parties and unions appreciate that these demands – as well as the recognition of “Valencian underfinancing” – are “black on white” in the agreements between parties that will allow the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. However, in the PP they believe that the transfers of the future president of the Government to the independentists make it difficult to approve initiatives that favor the interests of the Valencian Community.
While Baldoví (Compromís) and Salvador (PSPV) talk about opening up a “range of possibilities” and “opportunities” for the Valencian territory, the popular Barrachina adds water to the wine and points out that the agreements on taxation and infrastructure with forces from other autonomies will make Valencia’s problems worse.
And all this, while the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, asked that the reform of the new regional financing system include a “loyalty” clause with Spain that penalizes regions that “attack the State.”