Compromís seeks the clash with the Government for regional financing

Compromís returns to shake the demand for financing and works in a scenario in which, surely, it will collide head-on with the Government.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
12 October 2022 Wednesday 00:31
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Compromís seeks the clash with the Government for regional financing

Compromís returns to shake the demand for financing and works in a scenario in which, surely, it will collide head-on with the Government. A clash that is not accidental, nothing in politics is accidental a few months before an electoral contest as important as the regional ones next spring.

The only Compromís deputy in Congress and virtual candidate of the coalition, Joan Baldoví, was in Valencia yesterday to denounce the veto of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to debate a proposal by his formation to temporarily modify the financing system and thus compensate to underfunded autonomies.

The proposal for the Compromís Law proposed to unify into one single fund the different funds used to distribute the transfers by adding an extra (part of the VAT not returned to the autonomies and of the unpaid dependency). In total, 21,000 million that would be distributed by legal population and that would allow the Valencian Community to receive approximately 2,100 million.

However, the Compromís proposal, as Baldoví underlined, was not even debated in the Lower House due to the "disagreement of the Government with its processing." The executive argued that the proposal was not taken into consideration since it implied an "increase in credits."

However, the refusal of the Executive, seconded by the Table of the Chamber, has not stopped Compromís in its efforts, which will take the same proposal to the Corts Valencianes with the intention that the Hemicycle approve it and force its debate in Congress . Baldoví was convinced that if the text reaches Congress with the endorsement of the regional Parliament, "it will be more difficult" for the Government to refuse its debate.

Along these lines, the trustee of Compromís in Les Corts, Papi Robles, who was also present at the press conference, assured that there is a "good predisposition" of the groups to carry out this proposal.

In Compromís they believe that the PSPV cannot refuse to support the text, although it will be necessary to see what the Socialists decide because if they do, they will put the Government in a bind.