The mayors of the 12 municipalities of the ceramic cluster of Castellón, together with the Castellón Provincial Council that governs the PSOE, have met this Wednesday in Cevisama to stage their support for the sector and sign a text that will be sent to the Government asking it to rectify .

The ‘Salvem la ceràmica’ proposal requires a modification of the draft regulation that will govern the aid, in which the Executive is warned that with the current wording, most of the companies in Castellón will not be able to benefit from them because their traditional form of payments exceeds the 60 days required by the subsidy law. In this way, they formally join the request that the Generalitat Valenciana has launched to the Government and that was raised yesterday with Minister Reyes Maroto, visiting Castelló and Valencia.

In the text signed this Wednesday, they reject the obligation to allocate 50% of the aid to investments related to energy efficiency and decarbonization because, they argue, the priority of the moment “must be to save the sector and the thousands of jobs that are at stake.”

The Provincial Council of Castellón and the city councils also advocate reducing the deadlines in the processing of subsidies to avoid “a worsening” of the situation. Remember that in the last six months more than 1,000 jobs have been lost.

Likewise, the document includes a last amendment at the proposal of the Popular Group in the Diputación, in which it is requested that the maximum aid per beneficiary can be calculated as 40% of the eligible cost up to a maximum of 150 million euros per business group.

This noon, representing the mayors of the Popular Party, the party’s provincial president, Marta Barrachina, has shown her skepticism about aid that “has left us frozen.” And she has recognized that, even with doubts about not signing the allegations, she has finally done so “because if you sign them, it seems that you accept the text, but we are here not to break the ceramic pact.”

For his part, the mayor of l’Alcora and provincial general secretary of the PSPV-PSOE, Samuel Falomir, has indicated that “there is still a long way to go”, but he also wanted to value what has already been done by the Government . However, he has insisted that “it is urgent that the aid arrive.”