The Generalitat Valenciana plans to approve a social aid package this week that would include the consumer bonus announced a few weeks ago and other types of aid to lighten the price of mortgages.
The head of the Consell, Ximo Puig, explained it yesterday in an interview on À Punt regional television, where he confirmed that “technical issues” are closed these days. The negotiation with the supermarkets is done through the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community to approve a bonus aimed at families “with the most difficulties”.
Negotiation sources explained a few days ago that the Valencian distribution companies would be willing to provide part of the aid through discounts, for example by putting the management system at the service of aid.
And within this negotiation comes Podem’s proposal, which wants to include a third branch of aid, aimed at renting young people in a context of rising rental prices and inflation. “For us it is essential,” explain sources from the second Vice Presidency.
The youth rental aid has been in strong demand this year, and even Housing came to acknowledge being overwhelmed in a year in which the aid doubled with two different programs that generated a “considerable increase” in applications and also a complicated management of the same. “Aid from the Government of Spain has been found to be insufficient,” lamented sources from the department headed by Héctor Illueca.
In this sense, the same sources explain that they have already transferred the proposal to the PSPV and it would have been well received. The way in which the aid could be articulated has not yet been specified since, they point out, it is a “still open” debate, in which there is a desire for dialogue to develop a global negotiation in which Compromís, the third partner of the Botànic and with whom they have not yet spoken.
The aid package will foreseeably be formulated in a decree-law that would be approved this week and for which the Valencian Government would seek the maximum possible consensus in the Valencian parliament.
The approval will have to be validated in a permanent deputation because, already in discount time, the Corts Valencianes are dissolved next week.
