The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has forwarded to the central government 56 specific demands from the Valencian Community to deal with next Friday's meeting with the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez.
This is what he conveyed during the control session in the Courts, where he stressed that our territory "can no longer wait" and noted his commitment to defend the just and necessary demands of the Community. Along these lines, he has called for a transitory leveling fund that will bring us in line with the rest of the autonomies while the current regional financing system is not reformed.
During his intervention, the head of the Council reproached the PSPV for its "betrayal of all Valencians" by having broken unity for the first time in the Finance Committee to "renounce the equalization fund".
Thus, he recalled that in 2022, former president Ximo Puig signed an agreement with the president of the Junta d'Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, in which they jointly proposed the "creation of a transitional compensatory leveling fund ” extendable until the entry into force of a new financing system that will equalize the underfinanced communities.
During his response to the socialist parliamentary group, the president of the Generalitat also indicated that this September, unemployment in the Valencian Community has fallen by 1,148 people, the lowest in a month of September since 2008 in our territory
Thus, Mazón emphasized that this year, the Valencian Community is the third autonomous region in absolute terms in which more employment is created, with 97,000 new jobs. The president has underlined the leadership of our territory in creating employment for women, youth and in the industrial sector.
He has also asked the central executive to rule on the request to annul the sentences of the Alicante poet Miguel Hernández after the Council approved an institutional statement to support the family's request.
Increased resources in social and educational policies
In response to the Compromís trustee, the head of the Council attributed the increase in the Generalitat's debt to the current regional financing system, which "is a disaster", at the same time as stressing that the Council "will not give up even one cent from the equalization fund, or from the debt, or from the regional financing system".
During his speech, the president compared the current Council's commitment to social services and education with the last year of the Botanic. Thus, he has referred to the economic benefits of the system for autonomy and attention to dependency that "in the last year of the Botanic they allocated 559 million euros, while in the first year of the government of change they have been 635 or the 288 million of the current Council contributed to the Valencian income of inclusion compared to the 283 million of the previous government".
Likewise, he explained the increase to 117 million euros in the children's voucher compared to the 79 million of the previous Valencian executive, while aid to the school canteen in Infant and Primary Education has gone from 66 million to 70 million of the current Council. Along these lines, he also referred to school transport for Kindergarten and Primary students, which "in the last year of the Botanic School, it was one million euros, compared to the current 1.3 million".
It is in this area of education that the head of the Council has asked with respect to the parliamentary group Commitment to the "Self-Government of the Valencians" and has regretted that they have resorted to the Law of Educational Freedom of the Valencian Community, approved by the Courts, before the Constitutional Court. together with their friends" from the Galician Nationalist Bloc, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, Junts or Bildu. For this reason, he reproached Joan Baldoví for violating "our educational freedom law that was approved by the legislative government of the Valencian Courts".
Need for new immigration legislation
On the other hand, in response to the parliamentary group VOX, the head of the Council has shown his "concern", like the majority of Spaniards and Europeans, about illegal immigration. With regard to this, Mazón has recalled that migration policy is "the competence of the central government and the function of the Generalitat and the rest of the autonomous regions is assistance in the terms dictated by their legal system".
Thus, he pointed out the "irresponsibility" of the Government of Spain which "does not work in origin" and which "still does not know any management before the European Union". In this way he has referred to the fact that the migratory problem "is from 27 countries" not only from 17 autonomous communities, which cannot break the law because it would be "against the rule of law".