PSPV-PSOE Local Government Spokesperson Valencian CourtsRamón Abad stated on Tuesday that “Mazón and the PP disrespect the Valencian councils” and assured that “they did not approve the distribution criteria of the Municipal Cooperation Fund and did not create funds of more than one euro in the Alicante Provincial Council.” The socialist group in the Cortes requested the attendance of the Presidency’s regional secretary, Cayetano García, and the Director General of Local Government, José Antonio Redorat. Lack of respect for more than 542 municipalities of the Valencian Community” and explain this year’s criteria of the Cooperation Fund.
regional parliament
This is not the first time this debate has reached the regional parliament. PSPV has already registered a non-legal proposal in mid-October to address the controversy regarding the investment project. Considering this situation, PP demands that the will and autonomy of the Provincial Assembly be respected. All this after the court decision Constitutional Court would annul two points of the Valencian law regarding the fund and give approval to the rest of the Botànic project, which would cause both PP and PSPV to see themselves as holders of this right. In the debate in the Cortes on October 25, the PP tried to put the finishing touches on the project of the previous regional administration. Those from Mazón announced their intention to change the Botànic law.
Abad’s statements came a day after the Alicante Provincial Council government team presented this year’s budget. Regarding the Municipal Cooperation Fund, an investment project supported by the Municipality BotanicalIt will continue on its way without joining the Provincial Assembly. Ana Serna and Marina Sáez, deputy heads of the government team that presented the accounts this Monday, justified their decision not to participate on the basis that the Constitutional Court declared two points regarding the Valencian law of this fund null and void. At the same time, they reminded that Consell is working on a new model, the main feature of which is that the institutions that decide to participate are voluntary. “We will be cautious,” Sáez said about the possibility of involving the Cooperation Fund.
Finance Commission
The Finance Commission, which met on January 29, did not help bring PSPV and Compromís into closer positions with the government team. Neither the fact that the government team accepted the opposition’s twenty amendments to the budget, amounting to more than 1.6 million euros, nor the fact that the spokesmen of the socialists and Valencianists emphasized the dialogical tone of the first vice-president Ana Serna, do not seem to make much sense. There will be sufficient arguments to overcome the obstacle that the Cooperation Fund currently represents and at least abstain from the vote in the Provincial Palace this Wednesday. The Socialists have already justified their vote against last year because the government team refused to join the party. Cooperation Fund.