Ximo Puig’s advisers decided months ago that Consell’s president had room to grow in the mid lane ahead of the 28M regional elections. The more-than-possible disappearance of the Ciudadanos map leaves more than 460,000 votes for orphans in the Valencian Community; this is a trophy that Palau gurus believe they can fish, also supported by Puig’s “presidential influence”.
The economy played a fundamental role in this strategy, which exploited the moderate profile of the socialists. Botànic’s leader amassed gestures of love for the company in the final stage of the legislature, with concrete facts defending employers against attacks from the Council, as well as an inheritance tax bonus for family businesses regardless of income levels. or tax reform unanimously approved by the Cortes.
This commitment to the center was reaffirmed at the president’s meeting on Friday with the Valencian Entrepreneurs Association (AVE), which will hold meetings in the coming days, which includes great patrons of autonomy such as Juan Roig or Vicente Boluda. A few days with other candidates for the Generalitat.
Puig came to the meeting with a series of proposals aimed at expanding the company’s role in the public sphere through cooperation agreements between the Administration and the private sector, this newspaper learned. For example, in housing, an issue that PSPV promises to make a “priority axis” if it manages after 28M.
According to presidential sources, the Consell president has pledged to develop legislation that “simplifies and speeds up” procedures for providing public land to the private sector for building subsidized housing (VPO) through agreements with supporters.
Sources add that in no case will it be done “crazyly” and that the housing plan includes other pillars aimed at promoting public real estate. Puig also highlighted the good results public-private partnerships have had in reducing health waiting lists and advances other possible deals between both sectors, for example in education, where he proposes to “strengthen” interaction with the company to avoid “out there”, especially in FP. being vacancies and unemployed at the same time”.
Another suggestion Puig brought to the AVE was the simplification of bureaucracy, one of the historical demands of the business world. The socialist chose to expand the situations in which positive administrative silence was used and to apply responsible declaration in new processes.
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Volkswagen, the legislator’s major economic milestone, could not be short of this approach to the company. In this sense, Puig boasted of the “solvability, rigor and stability” that Consell provided, and promised to “attract more companies and more investment”. In fact, daring to realize this commitment, he said “works will be done to attract tractor projects connected to semiconductor production processes”, which is a sector that the European Union has focused on after the recent supply crisis and has had a deep impact especially in Europe. In the automobile industry, which also has direct repercussions in the Valencian Community through Ford.
The regional financing issue that Boluda put on the table before the meeting cannot be ignored either. Puig proposed to promote the Mediterranean Corridor and replicate the model of unity that allowed for the creation of an “autonomous financing corridor”, arguing that “the next legislature should be fair financing”.
When it comes to the demands of businessmen, there were no major innovations. The decalogue proposed by AVE was not disclosed, but Boluda has announced that one of the main cuts will be new tax cuts for Valencia firms to be “competitive” compared to other regions. “Health, finance, water, taxes, infrastructure” and “other issues affecting civil society” were some of the issues the AVE president identified as priorities.