The central government seems to have changed the script to focus part of its attention on the last great autonomy that governs the Spanish left. The relationship between the two governments has been based on trust and loyalty for some time, but gestures such as the delay in the financing model or the real investment made have called into question the extent to which the Spanish Executive has the Valencian Community among its priorities.
The parade of ministers even to announce far-reaching measures such as the youth cultural bonus has been a constant these days; even the President of the Government made an express visit to Morella to inaugurate the new layout of the N-232 road in Castellón.
Yesterday there was another inauguration of those that have been expected for years with the start-up of the Benissa variant after investing 38 million euros between the execution of the works (30.6 million euros) and the expropriations. Great news for the residents of the region and the thousands of tourists who visit it.
In the Palau de la Generalitat an authorized voice commented: “The Minister of Transport has put the batteries”. And it is that after some visits that did not finish convincing to solve the chaos of the Cercanías, Raquel Sánchez was in Valencia yesterday to sign, together with the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, and the mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, another agreement “historic” to bury the train tracks at its entrance through Valencia and reform and expand the Joaquín Sorolla Station.
The largest investment in decades in the city and that will make it easier for the bulldozers to enter in 2023 and for citizens to begin to visualize actions that were promised in 2003 but that were not started.
Also related to 2023 is the other great announcement that the Generalitat Valenciana has achieved this week after the celebration of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council (CPFF) last Wednesday. From this meeting with the minister and the autonomous communities, came the commitment of the Government of Spain to give the Valencian Community an extra 2,800 million (more than the state average) to form an ambitious budget. Quite a relief in an election year that will allow you to do some accounts to everyone’s taste and without constraints.
In the environment of the president of the Generalitat Valenciana they recognize that these gestures are good for them, although they deny that previously there was no complicity between the two executives.
The only stone in the shoe; the reform of the financing system that, despite the promises of the Minister of Finance to try to reactivate the negotiation with the autonomies, does not seem to be implemented.
However, from the Palau they reiterate that the demographic data that they have are good and that they are trying to carry out surveys in the Valencian Community with the state logic of the change of cycle without taking into account that the Valencian voter has already demonstrated his different behavior to time to vote in general and regional.
Thus, they admit that this type of advertisements that convey the idea that the Government takes care of and cares about the Valencians add up when facing the difficult challenge of maintaining the main fiefdom of the Spanish left.
