Unides Podem and Compromís wanted to make it clear that the latest proposals launched by Ximo Puig are not agreed upon within the Valencian Government. If on Friday it was the vice president, Mónica Oltra, who relativized and dwarfed Puig’s star demand to decentralize state institutions – “let’s decentralize the money and then bring us a picture of the Reina Sofía” -, yesterday it was the leader of UP , Pilar Lima, the one who showed her discrepancies with the head of the Consell.
The trustee of the purple formation assured that this request was a “partisan” opinion that “at no time has it been spoken within the Valencian government.” He gave the example of decentralization to argue that Puig, when he speaks, does not always expose a joint position of the Botànic.
Lima did it to defend the position of the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra (UP), against Ximo Puig’s approach to demand that the central government increase the budget and pay more for the Imserso travel program for the elderly. A controversy that confronts the Valencian employers’ association Hosbec with the Ministry in the hands of Podemos.
Lima assured yesterday in Les Corts that his group is committed to prioritizing the enjoyment of Imserso trips with “820,000 seats without raising a single cent.” “If the employers have a problem, they should sit down with Colomer -autonomous secretary of Tourism, of the PSPV- and Puig to ask for more aid”, he indicated.
Puig, on the contrary, in the conference he gave on Monday in Madrid, assured that “you have to pay what they are worth for public services” and added that “it is not possible to pay a full Imserso pension at 20 or 21 euros and at At the same time, ask for wage incomes to be improved”.
From Podem it was clarified this Tuesday that “Ximo Puig says things and proposes many things that are legitimate, and may even be interesting, but that is his personal or party opinion”. And they clarify that they are not the ones who distance themselves from the president when two of the three partners (Compromís and Unides Podem) think one thing and it is the PSPV that bets on another.
Regarding Imserso prices, the truth is that Compromís was not as forceful as Oltra did on Friday with decentralization. The spokeswoman for the Valencian coalition, Papi Robles, indicated that the “priority” of the Consell must be that older people can enjoy “affordable leisure spaces”. That yes, in parallel to Podem, Robles pointed out that “when Ximo Puig speaks it is Ximo Puig who expresses his position”.
Without looking for confrontation, it does give the feeling that in Podem the two currents that can be glimpsed at the state level are reproduced. Some more combative with the decisions of Pedro Sánchez and another more understanding and that seeks to safeguard the unity of the Government.
And it is that in the face of the freedom that comes from speaking from the legislature and from a party position, Lima does not hesitate to underline the differences with Puig. On the other hand, from within the executive it is pointed out that, although it is evident that in a coalition government there are different points of view on different matters, as may have been the case, “the important thing is to face the differences through dialogue, prudence and respect, with our sights always set on advancing in the task of government and in the policies that are being deployed at the service of the citizenry”.
