Everything seemed to indicate that the approval of the future Law on measures against Depopulation was going to generate a new clash between the government partners of the Valencian left. Both PSPV and Compromís had presented amendments to the law separately and the lack of agreement threatened to divide the vote of the three groups that support the government and leave the approval of the proposals at the mercy of the opposition. All this with the aggravating circumstance that it was a rule that comes from the Consell and that aspires to be one of the last three to be approved by the legislature in the last plenary session at the end of March.
Finally, the parliamentary groups requested a recess and after a short negotiation of barely an hour, PSPV and Compromís opted to withdraw the texts that they had presented alone and without the signature of the rest of the partners in order to smooth out the agreement.
The Valencianists had presented, among other issues, an amendment in which they demanded “an orderly implementation of renewable energy facilities that promotes the generation of energy in urban and peri-urban spaces close to areas where electricity consumption is concentrated.”
In addition, they asked that these facilities “assure, as a priority, the supply for residential and industrial consumption for the populations where they are established.” A whole series of conditions that, in the middle of the debate on the implementation model of this type of energy, was hardly going to achieve a consensus among the parties that support the regional Executive.
For their part, the socialist amendments were aimed at simplifying urban procedures in municipalities at risk of depopulation with the intention of preventing them from going on forever. A proposal that did not convince the rest of the parties. Finally, given the lack of agreement, it was decided to withdraw the amendments that made it difficult to process the standard.
Yes, there was an agreement between the three groups to formalize a change in the law through the incorporation of a transitory provision that the opposition criticized and that gives the Valencian Government a margin of three years to apply certain provisions of the regional regulations. Faced with criticism from the opposition, understanding that the amendment watered down the text, the Socialist deputy, Ana Besalduch, explained that this period is established only for those sections of the law for which a specific term is not defined, which does not mean that it will take three years.
There was also an agreement in commission and it was approved, another of the Compromís requests that establishes that the Consell will study the implementation of a rural agricultural income, to support the maintenance of agriculture and livestock activities and their contribution to the environment.
