Compromís still hopes that the PSPV does not present an amendment alone to the Budget Accompaniment Law to reduce the Inheritance Tax to family businesses that invoice more than 10 million euros. In the coalition they indicate that it is not the first time that the president has "feigned" with this type of maneuver and that he later returns "to the botanical consensus."
For this reason, they understand that despite the forceful words of the socialist trustee, Ana Barceló - who announced the firm decision of her parliamentary group to present this tax change -, there is still time to rebuild unity and avoid a vote that ends up adding the votes of the PSPV with part of the opposition.
Along these lines, Compromís has taken advantage of the president's first appearance in Les Corts after agreeing on the Generalitat's budget and the tax reform to ask him a trick question: "Does the President of the Consell consider that it is preferable to reduce taxes on the rich, or follow the Botànic's policy of strengthening public services with these resources?" In the brief argument that precedes the question recorded by the group's trustee, Papi Robles, he points out that "in 2019 the Botànic parliamentary groups reached an agreement in Les Corts to increase the Inheritance and Donation Tax bonus to professionals and small and averages undertaken, maintaining the contribution in the case of companies that invoice more than 10 million euros".
Compromís, as well as Unides Podem -which came to catalog this amendment as the 'Roig amendment' (in reference to the name of the owner of Mercadona who would benefit from the bonus) - do not understand that the PSPV distances itself so clearly from the agreements of the Valencian Government. In fact, in the coalition they remember that these types of "adventures" do not end up going well for the president and they remind him with a tinkle of the failure in his approach to Toni Cantó after the pandemic to try to agree on the budgets.
However, PSPV sources insist to La Vanguardia that the socialist group will present this amendment and "gather the necessary support" to carry it forward. A euphemism to indicate that they will seek support from the opposition, since they are aware that their two partners will not give it to them. PP and Ciudadanos seem willing to give them to them.
A new push and pull in the Valencian Government, they point out in Compromís; but "if the PSPV wants us to stage our differences, we are not going to look the other way".
In another order of things, yesterday the appearances of the ministers in Les Corts continued to announce the accounts of their departments for the coming year. During his intervention, the person in charge of Health, Miguel Mínguez, pointed out that procedures have been initiated so that patients can undergo surgery in private health if it is foreseeably already known that they have to wait more than 60 days.
In this sense, Mínguez pointed out, in 2023 the budget is increased from 15 to 22 million for referrals of interventions to the private sector, and the self-concert plan is increased from 16 to 25 million.
A "temporary" response to reduce waiting lists that does not seem bad to Compromís because it understands that "the first thing is the patient". However, his deputy spokesman Carles Esteve pointed out to this newspaper that he understands this referral of patients, but what worries him most is the increase in concerts with private hospitals that, according to what he said, rise to 60 million when in the long term, the bet of the Consell should be a "firm commitment that healthcare must be one hundred percent public".
