Arcadi Spain, Minister of Finance and Economic Model, will preside this year. political commission It consists of PSPV, Compromis and Unides Podem representatives who will be responsible. Negotiating Generalitat’s 2023 budget. In this way, Botànic continues the formula started last year, when a forum was first introduced to discuss regional accounts and agree on each euro allocated to each department. This time, however, a significant difference was introduced compared to the previous year when it was decided that no ministers would be integrated into this institution. This was something that motivated the Treasury chief at the time, Vincent Solerwill be excluded from this commission. Because of this, he lost some of the powers he had hitherto held, which meant a loss of power.
At its meeting this Friday, Consell agreed that the Spanish Minister would head the working group made up of different members of the Government to deal with budgets. authority to hold meetings. He will also be the one to report to the plenary of the Executive on progress and ultimately on agreements reached within that commission. In this way, the head of the Treasury regains control over the accounts lost by his incumbent predecessor, when Eva Martínez, Director-General of Budgets, is appointed head of the commission.
Spain is accepted. Puig’s right hand at the Botanical Council. In fact, Consell’s chairman gave him the portfolio of one of the departments that weighed the most after the Government overhaul in May. Sources around him highlight the Generalitat’s continued rapport with its vice-president. More. It was precisely the intricate relationships of his predecessors, Vicen Soler and Mónica Oltra, that directly triggered a thousand and one misunderstandings, often painstakingly published regarding the preparation of budgets. So much so that in 2020, Oltra publicly accused him of manipulating the agreed-upon accounts project to extract funds from his ministry, Equality and Inclusive Policies. There were clashes last year as well. Oltra and Soler closed a meeting before negotiating budgets. When the leader of Compromís learned that the head of the Treasury would immediately meet with Generalitat’s second vice-president, Héctor Illueca (Unides Podem), to discuss the same issue, he called off the meeting. Oltra stood up because, according to interpretation, their encounter no longer had the singularity he was looking for. The conflict between the two went on so long that the accounts were taken to the court after the given time expired. In fact, the parliamentary calendar had to be adjusted before they could be ratified before 31 December.
Tensions over the preparation of the accounts remained stable in the seven budgets Botànic carried behind him. This time around, it was stated that there was a desire to lower the tone to avoid repeating vaudevilles with each drop in balancing the numbers. In this sense, the left-wing coalition governing the Valencian Community is trying to project an image of unity because the message ultimately sent is that the 2023 budget is the first of the mandate, not the last. They will guide the action of the third botanical pact they hope to sign after elections scheduled for May next year.
Ministries have until next Monday to submit their spending proposals for next year. That will be when the negotiating commission, represented last year by two members of each of the parties – PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem – becomes operational. This forum will also have to discuss the tax reform announced by Consell chairman Ximo Puig, whose details are currently unknown.