The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, accused Ximo Puig’s former executive this Thursday of placing the Valencian Community in a “critical” situation due to what he assessed as “low certification of European funds.” A situation that, he added, forces the current Consell to “get its act together.”
He said this during the control session in Les Corts in response to the Vox ombudsman, José María Llanos, who assured that the Valencian Community led by the Botánic was the one that “worst” executed European funds, with “total incompetence” .
The president explained that, with regard to the structural funds of the 2014-2020 operational program, the “inefficient management” of the Botànic has meant that, of a total of 3,062 million, “only 1,375 were certified, that is barely 45%. ”.
Mazón explained that, for nine years, until May 2023, the Botànic certified 1,375 million euros, while the current Consell has placed the certified amount in less than a year at 2,049 million, after having certified 674 million.
Regarding the Next Generation Funds, he stated that of the 2,116 million that the Botànic budgeted, it only executed 26.6%, 564 million, which he described as “irresponsibility”, because in June 2026 the period for justification before the EU.
“It forces us to ensure that between 2024 and 2025, in just two years, we have to execute 74%, 1,552 million have been left at risk by these gentlemen,” lamented Mazón, who highlighted that in the first six months of his Consell they have closed 2023 with 404 million European fund certificates.
“In a year and a half, the Botànic only executed 564, in half a year we executed 404 million” of the Next Generation Funds,” highlighted the president, who has vindicated the “organization, seriousness, criteria, management and work” of his Consell. .
However, the spokesperson for European Affairs of the PSPV-PSOE in Les Corts, Cristina Martínez, has subsequently indicated in a statement that the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility “has already denied Mazón once on this matter”, and has urged the PP to ”have a rigorous approach to Europe and the management of European funds”
According to Martínez, “the European inheritance of the PP in 2015 was a sanction for the management of the City of Light, another for falsifying the deficit and a SERVEF disqualified from managing European funds due to its total inaction.”
A report from the Valencian Institute of Economic Research, IVIE, was sent from the PSPV, which indicates that the Valencian Community is the second one that had executed the most Next Generation funds until June 2023, with a percentage of almost 59%.
