Vox Proposals: Immigration, Taxes, and Housing in Valencia

The proposals submitted by the parliamentary groups at the end of the first session of the General Policy Debate map out how likely it is for parties to find common ground on key issues and reveal each party’s priorities. In Vox’s case, it is clear that the financing model for regional governments is not among their goals. Instead, illegal immigration, a hallmark of Vox’s discourse and the very issue that precipitated the collapse of the coalition with the PP under Santiago Abascal, takes center stage.

Meanwhile, the PPCV, PSPV and Compromís have included the financing model and its many derivatives among the twelve initiatives that can be debated this Friday in the Corts, while Vox has ignored the issue entirely. For a region historically underfunded by the current distribution system, which yields fewer resources per inhabitant to sustain public services and has accumulated a debt above 40 billion, that omission matters.

Nevertheless Vox does spell out its position on immigration. Alongside discussions about squatting and tax cuts, this is where Vox supporters push a distinctly hard line against the PPCV led by Carlos Mazón.

In the document filed last night with the registry and signed by the síndic Jose Maria Llanos, Vox again links immigration and crime by calling for reinforced police forces to address the rise in illegal immigration and crime.

It also urges the regional government to give priority to Spaniards when granting public aid and to refrain from distributing these funds to people in irregular immigration status. It even requests that the Security Forces carry out effective monitoring of these individuals while they remain on national soil.

Vox also targets NGOs that participate in rescues in the Mediterranean and calls for measures to prevent these ships from docking at regional ports. It additionally proposes withdrawing subsidies from them.

Furthermore, the document suggests directing the funds allocated for housing and integration toward moving these people to their country of origin or, if desired, to the Belgian city of Brussels, where it claims the European elites who promote their arrival reside.

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Vox also appears to be deeply concerned about illegal squatting of homes. It calls for support offices and counseling for victims, harsher penalties, and even intends to arm the police with tools and resources to carry out immediate arrests in cases of squatting or evictions.

In parallel, the party pushes for stimulating home construction through greater public-private collaboration and for reducing tax pressure with measures such as a super-reduced VAT rate for the purchase of a primary residence.

Tax Relief and No Subsidies to Unions

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Taxes become another principal battleground for Vox. It proposes granting full exemptions for certain documentary stamp duties and real estate transfers for large families, along with broad tax reductions. It also supports eliminating wealth tax and reducing income tax across all brackets, with special emphasis on middle and lower incomes.

In another familiar move, Vox calls for a review of subsidies to unions and employers while urging aid to the private sector to counter the adverse effects of rising production costs.

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One of Vox’s education proposals is to require that all schools display the Spanish flag and the official Valencian symbol, along with stronger school inspections to prevent ideological influence in classrooms and ensure compliance with current law.

It also supports advancing the Edificant plan, though not by name, prioritizing projects already under way and schools with substandard facilities.

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In linguistic matters Vox asks for adapting the local language framework to the new freedom of education law backed by both PP and Vox, and it calls for restoring the bilingual naming of place names in Valencian municipalities.