Head of the PP of the province of Alicante, Tony PerezHe asked Generalitat chairman Ximo Puig this Monday for more decentralization in the Valencian Community and to “do what he wants in Madrid at home”.
The president of popular Alicante noted with Consell de Puig that “Valencia concentrates everything”, reminding that the regional president “did not keep his promise to have a Ministry of Tourism in Benidorm for the state in 2015, as well as a Ministry of Innovation. Or at most at least a really working and operating headquarters. Valencia Innovation Agency (AVI), because what exists has no practical functioning or more institutional or administrative offices”. “We don’t see any of that,” he insisted.
Pérez’s remarks come at a time when Puig intensified his agenda to mark a position in favor of the decentralization of State institutions, supported by a proposal from the Chair of Prospect. Although government partners Compromis and Unides Podem are reluctant to the idea.
“The province of Alicante is the great forgotten region of Consel. Despite its population, economic, touristic and industrial weight, it does not have the administrative importance it deserves.
“Puig talks about structuring the Valencian Community while ignoring the province of Alicante. He talks about emotional reconnection, ignoring the state of Alicante. It speaks of the decentralization of the State when it does the same, ignoring the province of Alicante, and is not exactly exemplary,” he said.
“We were impressed that Puig, from the People’s Party of the province of Alicante, talked about the decentralization of the State and asked the Government to remove the organizations from Madrid when he did not do this in his own country. Valencia continues to intensify all administrative and corporate activities Not remembering the province of Alicante, which has ports to match, more than half the tourism business of the entire Valencian Community, an economy, its own products and a leading industry,” said Pérez.
We also see it in public works, which is proportionally much less in the province of Alicante,” he said. “All this without relying on a lack of investment so that this province can live up to what it deserves: a nerve centre, strategic, tourist and economic point of the Valencian Community,” he said.