The Generalitat Valenciana will not change its accounts for 2024 despite the adjustments that the new fiscal conditions imposed by the Ministry of Finance would demand. President Carlos Mazón has said that "I am not going to change the budgets and Sánchez's cuts are not going to be applied when they come late, badly and irresponsibly." "I neither can nor want to," said the president in his shared appearance with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid.
Mazón's assessment occurs one day after the meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, in which the Ministry of Finance informed the autonomies that in 2024 they will receive 15% more from the financing system while their deficit objective will be 0.1%.
The spokesperson for the Valencian Government and Minister of Finance, Ruth Merino, spoke at the meeting, also present today in the press room, sitting in the front row, along with the Valencian vice-presidents Vicente Barrera and Susana Camarero and the ministers Nuria Montes and Salomé Pradas.
There the Valencian Community, along with all the other communities present – except Asturias and Castilla-La Mancha, which voted in favor along with the Government – voted against the 0.1% deficit objective proposed by the Ministry for all of the autonomies because it means "concentrating most of the effort on the autonomies" that Spain will have to make to reduce the deficit of all Public Administrations to 3% next year.
After Monday's meeting, Merino criticized that when determining how the effort to reduce the deficit is distributed, the Government has not taken into account the starting position of the autonomies and that the State has reserved 97% of the deficit. authorized. "This circumstance forces all the CCAAs of the common regime to close the year with a deficit of 0.1% of GDP, despite the fact that they manage 35% of total spending," says the Valencian government. This is why the Valencian Community defends raising the authorized deficit for 2024 to 0.3%, the same level established as the reference level in the 2023 General Budgets.
