The pre-election campaign heats up. Two days after the formal start of the voting request period and for the appointment with 19 polling stations, Generalitat chairman and PSPV re-election candidate Ximo Puig took advantage of his counterpart’s visit to the Government. To raise his stance against his main rival, the People’s Party, to discuss the first place in the votes and seats in the Valencian Parliament, at a joint rally in Spain, Pedro Sánchez, Castellón.
Before a packed auditorium with Sánchez and mayor and re-election candidate Amparo Marco, Puig warned of the PP’s “nervous breakdown” in this campaign and recalled his past in connection with corruption. In this sense, he noted that “their rallies seemed to be of the third degree” after Carlos Fabra was found at a Rajoy demonstration the previous day: “From prison to PP rally,” he said, adding that it was for May. The decision is “it’s very easy: to choose between Gürtel, aircraft-free airports or Volkswagen and breaking the employment figures record.”
“Neither the city of Castellón nor today’s Valencian Community has anything to do with what it was eight years ago,” said Consell president, who boasted about the “lack of projects” to the administration. Carlos’s has Mazón. Thus, he presented socialists as a project “dedicated to solving people’s problems and improving the lives of citizens” in the face of the popular “whose only alternative is ‘against everything’, deception and permanent destruction”.
Puig’s insistence on taxation, one of the pre-campaign controversies, was within this criticism. On top of that, when you hear the right talk about tax cuts, “what they’re trying to tell us is that they’re going to cut and privatize public services,” explaining that “in 2015 it was low-income Valencians. Who paid the most from Spain and now they pay the least ». “We have done justice and are committed to financial progressiveness,” he said.
Betting on housing
Puig’s intervention was preceded by that of Sánchez, his penultimate stop in the Community of Valencia before 28 May. In this, he reaffirmed his commitment to the ceramics industry and emphasized that the Spanish Government “does not show itself in profile, we take responsibilities and lead the competitions”.
In addition, Sánchez praised “President Ximo Puig’s steadfast commitment to return the entire healthcare system privatized by the People’s Party governments” and insisted that “it is a worthwhile conquest”.
He also stressed that the measures of the socialists “lay the foundations for raising the fifth pillar of the welfare state” in terms of housing.
In line with this, he emphasized that new housing measures such as the ICO guarantee line or the construction of 20,000 houses on Ministry of Defense land are “facts”, not “promises”. Sánchez evaluated housing policy against the PP model. “They’re talking about land, we’re talking about housing, they’re talking about luxury goods, and we’re talking about a constitutional right.”