The mayor of València, María José Catalá, has claimed that the Central Government must do its homework and make “the golden triangle of the train between València, Madrid and Barcelona” a reality. The leader of the PP has indicated that “it cannot be that the connection with Barcelona is so precarious and that the connection with Madrid has worsened by diverting most of the trains to the Chamartín station.”
Catalá made these statements this afternoon, in a round table with the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, and the mayor of Barcelona, ??Jaume Collboni titled “The city of the 21st century.”
The debate, explain sources from the Valencian council, has been organized by the Barcelona Society of Economic and Social Studies of Foment del Treball, which has opened its headquarters in Madrid, and has brought together the business sector of Madrid and Catalonia. The mayor also wanted to address them: “I encourage you to come and invest in Valencia because now we are a government that provides legal security, lowers taxes, offers stability and believes in private initiative and public-private collaboration.”
The first mayor follows in the footsteps of the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, the also popular Carlos Mazón, who a few weeks ago announced a trip to Catalonia to “encourage” his companies “to come to the Valencian Community, to explain to them that there is freedom here, that can begin a new era of prosperity.
Along these lines, Catalá has reiterated the idea that she has been deploying since the electoral campaign carried out by the mayor: “València has returned as a leader and innovator. We are once again making a strong presence at the national level and we have the vocation to become the second city in Spain in terms of investments and projects.”
In her speech, the mayor of València has thrown another cape at businessmen and has defended that the city of the 21st century does not grow based on ideology and politicking, but rather grows based on facts and investment: “The economic sector, the company, is not an enemy for us, it is an ally to implement policies that benefit citizens.”
Finally, Catalá highlighted that in a few months València has become the only Spanish city that will host two of the 7 European digital infrastructure consortia. “In Valencia we are positioning ourselves to be one of the first smart cities in Spain. And we have the endorsement of Europe,” Catalá concluded.
