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The Valencian Community strengthens its alliance with Madrid to reactivate its leadership in mobility, renewable energies and as a strategic logistics node for the Spanish economy

 

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The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has indicated that the Valencian Community is strengthening its alliance with the Community of Madrid to reactivate its leadership in mobility, renewable energy and as a strategic logistics node for the Spanish economy.

 

He stated this during the II Community of Madrid-Comunitat Valenciana Business Summit, organized by the Conexus Foundation, in which he participated together with the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and in which representatives of companies and civil society, with the aim of strengthening collaboration between the two autonomous communities.

 

Carlos Mazón has advocated for the launch of a "great projection and future platform" of these autonomous communities "with a growth mindset and a liberal environment", which will work from "coordination and loyal competition" to improve the prosperity of Spain as a whole, and he recalled that these two regions represent 26% of the Spanish population and nearly 30% of the national GDP.

 

Expansion of the port of Valencia

During his speech, the president demanded the northern expansion of the port of Valencia, an infrastructure he described as a "country strategy", and which he assured was "sustainable and necessary" also for the Iberian Peninsula and for europe

 

In this sense, he thanked the support for the expansion of the main Spanish port offered by civil and business society in both Madrid and Valencia, and expressed his confidence that this expansion will be approved as soon as possible.

 

Promotion of electric mobility and renewable energies

During the event, the head of the Council announced three initiatives to promote electric mobility and renewable energies, among which is the launch of a network of energy recharging infrastructures in the connection between Madrid and the Valencian Community, with the aim of placing a charging point for electric vehicles every 60 kilometers.

 

Likewise, he has advanced that a figure will be created to harmonize regulations and streamline regional and municipal processes to promote joint actions, and an administrative simplification plan aimed at promoting renewable energy projects will be implemented.

 

For the promotion of these joint projects, Mazón has advanced that working groups will be set up between the two autonomous communities that will hold several meetings during 2024.

 

Mediterranean Corridor and water resources

Carlos Mazón has also claimed the Mediterranean Corridor which he has referred to as a "competitiveness platform" that will contribute to the fact that "there are more competitive regions in Spain" and "add to the common project".

 

In the same way, he has urged to solve the lack of water resources, especially in the province of Alicante, as he has assured that "it is a problem of the State and not of the farmers or the consumers of a specific area ". On this issue, Mazón pointed out that water "is the guarantee that the vegetable garden of Europe, the Spain brand, will continue to have a future".

 

On the other hand, the head of the Council has also claimed the improvement of the financing of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, considered as the second art gallery in Spain, and has advocated to offer "stability, certainty, and a favorable administrative environment" as that of Madrid and "now finally like that of the Valencian Community" to be able to continue promoting business projects and receive new economic investments.

 

Budgets are not changed

The president has also referred to the Generalitat's budgets, "serious and rigorous" accounts that also contemplate the reduction of public sector spending and an estimate of real investments. In this sense, he has denounced that the budgets were made without the forecasts and with a total "lack of responsibility" of the government of Spain.

 

For this reason, he has been adamant not to modify the budgets of the Generalitat and has stressed that "we did our work within the deadline and in the corresponding form", and therefore "we will not change our budgets".

 

Amnesty Law

Regarding the processing of the amnesty law that is being debated this Tuesday in the Congress of Deputies, the president pointed out that "we cannot close our eyes" and added that the repercussion of this law will be a divided Spain in which "Privilege reigns, there are first-class and second-class Spaniards, first-class and second-class neighborhoods, first-class and second-class health services, and first-class entrepreneurs and second-class entrepreneurs".

 

For this reason, he pointed out that the Attorney General's Office is studying the draft of the Amnesty Law in order to exercise the appropriate legal actions before the Constitutional Court that allow the Constitution to be defended.