“We are very disappointed.” This is the message conveyed by the Valencian Minister of Finance, Ruth Merino, after the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, CPFF, which was held in Madrid. “We are disappointed because the Government has not brought this matter to the agenda and because the minister has dedicated herself to throwing things out of her control when she has been asked to do so.”
Merino has pointed out that, despite not being in the order of the CPFF, “I have demanded that while they do not take the initiative to address the change in the regional financing model, they provide us with a leveling fund that equates the financing of Valencians to the rest of autonomy”. In this regard, Merino added that “it has not given the impression that the minister takes this matter seriously.”
The Valencian councilor has insisted that “fundamental services in the Valencian Community depend on financing” but, she added, “I don’t have hopes that they will pay much attention to us.”
Hours earlier, the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, criticized the fact that the CPFF order does not include “a proposal on the table” regarding the new financing model, which in his opinion shows that this meeting is “a new procedure “marked by the former president of the Generalitat and Junts MEP, Carles Puigdemont. “As the Catalan separatists have their own agenda, they have decided that it is not up to the rest of us,” he lamented.
The Treasury spokesman for the PSPV-PSOE in Les Corts, José Muñoz, has assured that “the lack of interest” of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, in the financing reform, “leads him to ally himself with the person who most wants to discriminate against the Valencians”, the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Muñoz has called the modus operandi of the Consell de Mazón and the extreme right a “sectarian attitude” and it makes them ugly that they “make an information blackout on what the position of the Valencian Community is going to be in the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council that is being held this Monday “The position of the Valencians would have to be agreed upon in the Consell-Corts commission as has always been done.”
For his part, the trustee of Compromís en Les Corts, Joan Baldoví, has reproached the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, for “subordinating” to the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and for “renouncing the defense of Valencian interests”
This Monday, Compromís registered a letter in which they formally request the convening of the Consell-Corts Joint Commission on financing and historical debt, “a demand that has already been made repeatedly to Mazón and that has been ignored,” the coalition reported. .
This commission, made up of the parliamentary groups, the Consell and the financing experts appointed by Les Corts, met regularly before the meetings of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council in recent terms.