The Generalitat does not intend to change the 2024 Budget law, which was discussed in the Cortes and is still at the amendment stage, even though it contains deviations between income and expenditure exceeding 500 million. President Carlos Mazón confirmed this in Madrid yesterday, while PSPV and Compromís condemned him in Parliament for the “irresponsibility” of the regional executive in preparing accounts regarding this imbalance that would lead to “interruptions” in the future.
The Ministry of Finance informed the Valencian Community on Monday that it will receive 15 billion 254 million euros from the financing system in the next financial year; This is 13.4% more than the previous year, but 263 million fewer than the Generalitat had predicted in its accounts. In addition, the Treasury set its deficit target at 0.1%, compared to the 0.3% on which Consell bases its calculations; This is a deviation of almost 300 million. In total, 500 million imbalances, which Mazón yesterday refused to change.
The announcement represents a new order for the central government, which the head of Consell blamed for this lack of information for failing to deliver both indicators by Monday and accounts are in the final stages. «We didn’t have any predictions, it’s unprecedented; Announcing his intention not to back down, Mazón criticized: “We had to create a budget based on unofficial negotiations with Airef.” “Sanchez’s cuts will not be implemented if they are implemented late, poorly and irresponsibly,” he said.
Maintaining these accounts drew criticism from the opposition, which called him “irresponsible”. PSPV and Compromís regretted that PP and Vox will approve some accounts in the Cortes next week that are “incompatible,” “stillborn,” and suffer from “rigidity.” “They are condemned to cuts,” said José Muñoz, the Socialists’ Treasury spokesman. “If they want to be diligent, they should take these budgets and return them to Consell,” said Aitana Mas, deputy trustee of Compromís.
The Socialist MP noted that Consell already knew that the deficit would be 0.1% since October, because that was how the Government sent it to Brussels in its stabilization plan. Before Monday, the autonomies had set the budget deficit at 0.1%, compared to 0.3% in the Valencia region.
PSPV and PP agreed on debt forgiveness request
PSPV and PP reached an agreement yesterday on changes to the Generalitat’s budget. This will not affect any amounts, but the public and socialists agreed that the Ministry of Finance’s goals should include “support for negotiation, calculation and methodology for determining the amount of fair forgiveness of historical debt.” This was opposed by Vox, partners of the People’s Party, who rejected the “open bar” in which “every district baron was navel-gazing”. After discussion of four parts of the budgets, agreement on this change was almost an exception.