Discussion on the topic Municipal Cooperation Fund has entered a cycle. In parallel with the debates in the Provincial Assembly of Alicante, mainly between the People’s Party and the PSPV-PSOE groups, the differences regarding the investment plan supported by Botànic at the time would return to the Valencian Cortes. Socialists presented an illegal proposal in the Regional Parliament that would lead to the issue of the Cooperation Fund being considered at the plenary meeting on the 25th. All this happened after the Constitutional Court annulled two points. The fund acted in accordance with Valencian law and gave approval to the rest of the Botànic project, causing both PP and PSPV to consider themselves beneficiaries.
In the document recorded by the socialists cuttingsThe resolution, signed by trustee Rebeca Torró and Elche MP Ramón Abad, proposes, among other decisions, to transfer the amounts suspended from the Cooperation Fund “retroactively and immediately from the Consel” to 141 municipalities. Alicante province. In this context, it is worth remembering that PSPV has been claiming for months that Alicante municipal councils have lost $100 million over the last seven years due to the Provincial Council’s refusal to participate in this plan; both during the time when Carlos Mazón was at the helm and today under Toni Pérez.
Ximo Puig, PSPV’s general secretary, had already this Monday called for the preservation of the Cooperation Fund and for joint action by the municipal councils. “It is necessary to maintain, through joint work, the axis of defense of municipalism in order to preserve everything that has been put forward,” Puig said during his participation in an event at the University of Alicante. In this context, Torró added on Tuesday: “For years Mazón, systematic boycott To the municipalities of the province of Alicante for pure sectarianism. Even the courts agreed with Puig, overturning the irrational and partisan strategy.
Considering the new debate in the Cortes next week, the PP demands respect for the will and financial autonomy of the three councils of the Valencian Community. Likewise, it should be noted that Constitutional He did not approve of the Cooperation Fund, on the contrary, he canceled two of his main points, pointing out that it was not created on the same criteria as the state fund and referring to the possibility that Consell might need it. To ensure that the heads of delegations comply with the coordination rules.
«Mazón stated that there were inappropriate powers corresponding to the Generalitat and that the State Assembly, like Doctor Esquerdo or the State House, assumed them. This did not happen with other MPs. It was agreed upon Generalitat Juan Francisco Pérez, secretary general of the PPCV and deputy speaker of the popular group in the Cortes, “will assume these powers and the Provincial Council will cooperate in bilateral agreements, such as those made on tourism issues due to the pandemic,” underlines Llorca.
Finally, the Compromís remember that they were always on the side of Europe. Committee Pay back any money not received from the fund in the last two periods. The coalition considers that the municipalities of Alicante suffer compared to the municipalities of Valencia and Castellón and that an agile vehicle is hindered.
Provincial Council’s attitude: They think they are supported by the Constitutional Court
Before the debate on the Cooperation Fund returned to the Valencian Parliament, the government team led by the popular Toni Pérez from the Alicante Provincial Council had already expressed its position after hearing the decision of the Constitutional Court. The government team feels its approach is supported by the judicial establishment, as it has declared invalid the two rules the People’s Party focuses on. “We understand that the decision to annul Article 7 of the law in question, due to its unconstitutionality, constitutes a blow not only to the law, but also to the Government, under the chairmanship of Ximo Puig and the Consell del Botànic, since the fund was not created according to the same distribution criteria as the state fund,” he says. Provincial Council president Toni Pérez.
The provincial institution has filed two contentious-administrative objections with the TSJ of the Valencian Community against the Consell agreements under which the basic financing plans for this year and subsequent years were approved.