Unanimous agreement between the employers, the unions and the Generalitat Valenciana to demand from the Government a temporary leveling fund pending the reform of the regional financing system. It was agreed yesterday by the representatives of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community (CEV), Salvador Navarro, the UGT-PV union, Ismael Sáez, and CCOO-PV, Ana García Alcolea, meeting to address the first meeting of the Board’s legislature of Social Dialogue with the head of the Consell and other members of the Valencian Government.

The agreement with the social agents was important for the Consell, because for Carlos Mazón it is “essential that there be a single voice of the entire Valencian Community, political and social, and of dialogue so that the Community’s demands reach the best possible port” .

In the words of Ana García Alcolea, the temporary leveling fund is “a measure while the financing model arrives, which has to be fair and equitable.” The secretary of CCOO-PV also spoke about debt relief: “We will work in parallel for the new model and eliminate it,” she reiterated.

Salvador Navarro also spoke about removing the debt incurred, who defended “continuing fighting” because, in his opinion, it is justified: “70% of the debt is due to under-financing and this is also an issue that we should not put aside,” argued the business representative. Navarro also agreed that “it is important” that the “Per un Finançament Just” platform endorses this request from the Generalitat Valenciana. This platform will hold an extraordinary session with the rest of the political forces to address this issue, Mazón also announced yesterday.

For his part, the general secretary of UGT-PV gave his “absolute support” to the proposal and regarding the need for agreements he stated that “if we are able to listen to each other, we will find a common bridge.”

The agreement reached yesterday will seek the same unanimity today at the meeting of the Consell-Corts mixed commission. The Minister of Finance and Economy, Ruth Merino, attends the meeting with the aim of reaching an agreement on this demand from the central Government, so that it contemplates a temporary leveling fund already in the General State Budgets of 2024.

“What cannot be is that, after 10 years of an expired system, we continue with a deficit in annual financing that far exceeds 1,000 million euros,” Merino said after yesterday’s plenary session of the Consell.

“We ask for what we believe is fair” and it is difficult to defend that they do not want to grant this transitional fund to simply make Valencians equal to the average in financing,” lamented the spokesperson for the Valencian Executive. “It is something evident, objective and with data,” so “it is in your power to do everything possible to end this injustice,” Merino said.

The updating of the data will in fact be one of the main assets of the Valencian proposal, so the next session of the platform will also be attended by the committee of experts who have worked on their own studies “from rigor and not on claims of little.” deep, in the blackmail of the rest of Spaniards, in privileges or prejudices, but in the justice of a Community that seeks equality with the rest of Spain.”

At the end of the year, Councilor Merino estimated the regional leveling fund at around 1.5 billion euros per year for the Valencian Community, as long as the financing system is not reformed. The figure, she warned, was provisional, since the commission of experts for the reform of the regional financing system would be working on updating it to present a claim as rigorous as possible.