Consell is currently preparing a consensus and voluntary Cooperation Fund

This was announced last week by popular MP Eduardo Dolón in a debate in parliament. Valencian Courts Following the illegal proposal submitted by the socialist group to call on the Provincial Council of Alicante to allocate nearly one hundred million dollars to municipalities in the province after seven years of refusing to implement the Cooperation Fund. Popular sources confirmed to this newspaper that the key to the new project is that the law on which it will be based will be prepared by the councils. This is to put an end to one of the major conflicts between administrations, such as the one between the Consell led by Puig and the Alicante Provincial Council headed by the current president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón.

critics

One of the biggest criticisms made by PP was this: Cooperation Fund Agreement had not been reached with the councils, which was the main argument used by the Alicante provincial body to refuse to participate. The aim now is for three delegations to actively participate in the preparation of the draft. In this context, it is also worth noting that one of the assets that Mazón plays with is the huge municipal power that the PP managed to bring together in the municipal elections last March 28.

Proof of this is that the three presidents of the councils are the popular Toni Pérez (Alicante), Vicente Mompó (Valencia) and Marta Barrachina (Castellón). The same goes for the mayors of the four most populous cities: Luis Barcala (Alicante), Pablo Ruz (Elche), María José Catalá (València) and Begoña Carrasco (Castellón). Mazón maintaining communication with presidents provincial councils To start preparing the new investment plan, he has already put forward the municipal power of the PP along with other issues, such as the rejection of amnesty for Catalan independence politicians or the creation of a common front from the Valencian Community. Political coordination forum.

Keys

Another important issue we are working on is that the new Cooperation Fund is based on voluntary applications. By this we want to distance ourselves from the imposition, according to the version defended by the PP, whose plan Botànic wants to implement. At this point they give two examples. The first of these, Alicante Provincial Council They participated in the support fund for the tourism sector because they thought that this project was carried out in a coordinated manner between administrations. On the other hand, they appeal to the decision of the Constitutional Court, which annulled article 7 of the Botànic plan, pointing out that the territorial law was not created with the same distribution criteria as the state fund.

Following the agreement reached with the councils, the protection of the autonomy of local companies and the voluntariness of the implementation, another important point pointed out by the PP is that the Cooperation Fund will give more importance to small municipalities than Botànic. This is the same argument used in the Alicante Provincial Council with its alternative program in recent years. Plan + Nearby. The government team led by Mazón argued that 139 of the province’s 141 municipalities benefited from the distribution model. The only two towns affected were Alicante and Elche, which had the largest populations; This reinforces the popular thesis that towns with smaller populations benefit from their distribution.

One of the main criticisms from the socialist ranks was that Mazon While the cost of participating in the Cooperation Fund to the municipalities of the province is close to 100 million, PP claims that its investment has reached 170 million.