The image of 20 November 2021 on the streets of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón is repeated in election programs. Of course, autonomous financing reform is the point of choice, where the left and right overlap more. Despite speaking of “underfunded” regions as opposed to the regional model, all but Vox agree that this should be changed, that the existing one is detrimental to the Valencian Community and also that the debt incurred should be paid off. has been taken care of so far.
At its core, however, the unity did not prevent accusations and cross-criticism every time the debate arose in this legislature. The penultimate one was for a skeletal sketch proposed by the Ministry of Finance to the autonomies, which did not quite convince anyone in the Valencian Community. The PP takes advantage of this situation in its election program to blame these 28Ms on the Government: “Based on data from five years ago, they invented a financing skeleton and left it there.” The proposal of the María Jesús Montero department to propose this draft seemed to solve the reform of a model that has expired since 2014. This first step, however, did not complete the takeoff. All the autonomies submitted their claims, the Valencian Community did so unanimously in the Cortes, but there was never a response or counteroffer from the Treasury.
Months later, funding turned to political debate one last time. It was a year before the PP and PSOE agreed at the state level that this reform should be deferred to another legislature. Popular ones have since blamed Ximo Puig’s “silence and passivity” in front of Sánchez, while socialists say they and their leader, Feijóo, are blockers of any genre, while the socialists have not changed the model while the PP has an absolute majority. level agreement, as well as an argument that the PSPV embodied in its electoral program, in which the Generalitat has received “the largest contribution of state resources in history” since 2020.
Be “more demanding”
Meanwhile, Unides Podem, Compromís and Ciudadanos have denounced the two entities for their lack of agreement, reverting to the “old bipartisanship” mantra they had grown up with from 2015. In fact, these three parties attribute the failure of financing reform to one another. to one of the strengths of your campaign. It was Joan Baldoví who made this issue a central point in her campaign.
It is already a pretty goodwill statement that “fair funding and defense of the rights of Valencians” is the first point to come up in the Settlement program. Those who could wink and smile displayed strict Valencian obedience throughout the campaign to postulate themselves as the engine of a “more vindictive” future Botany.
According to Ciudadanos, the absence of a new financing model is part of their strategy to criticize the tactics of the PP and PSOE to disagree on the search for a beneficial policy and to criticize the advantages of the Navarrese and Basque quotas. Finally, in the Unides Podem, they encompass the financing reform as a change in the regional model towards the “federalization” of Spain and a comprehensive tax reform.