Aid to the ceramic sector has tense the debate this Wednesday in Les Corts Valencianes between the Minister of Innovation and Industry, Nuria Montes, and Vicent Marzà, from Compromís, regarding the budgets of the department that the former directs for 2024 and that They total 530.22 million euros. "They have been saying for months that they are going to help them, and not only are the aid reduced, but they disappear," Marzá snapped in his question time, after having explained that yesterday he was in Brussels to request aid to the sector.
"The Government of Spain has turned its back on them, other governments like Italy have put in 750 million euros and here the ceramic industry has not received a single euro, and you have not claimed it," replied Montes, who, taking advantage of The current situation of political negotiation for the investiture has invited Marzà to include the claim "within the letter to the Three Wise Men: put it on the table, at least the same contribution as Italy. Go to Madrid and not to Brussels and ask for it." to Pedro and Yolanda," the counselor stated.
It was the moment of greatest confrontation in a debate in which the minister, recently arrived from the World Travel Market in London, presented the Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism accounts, which record a reduction in spending of 15.6% compared to to the previous exercise.
A budget reduction that both PSPV and Compromís have criticized and that the latter has assumed, explaining that "the budget and the income statement are what matter; because if not, everything else is a story and there is nothing else behind it." He was thus alluding to the Botànic accounts, "fictitious" according to Montes, who added that "we are not betting on a spending policy that is far from reality."
"She is the Minister of Industry, but not the Minister of the tourism employers' association. Do you think she represents all the sectors?" asked Marzà, who has criticized the cut of 13 million euros in the innovation or of 4 million in technological institutes.
For its part, Arcadi Spain (PSPV), former Minister of Finance and Economic Model, has taken up the Minister's criticism of the deficit and "the inheritance received", ensuring that "if the Botànic budgets are fictitious, this is the sequel" . Spain, deputy spokesperson for the PSPV-PSOE in Les Corts, has denounced that "they have lowered the investment in the Travel Bonus and left 20,000 Valencians out of this program", a project that "reactivates the economy of the Community and makes this society be broader." In this regard, Montes has indicated that the intention of the Department is to make it possible to reach 40,000 Valencians and "perform the miracle of doing more with less."
In his speech, Montes has focused on the competitive competition processes to access different aid linked to promoting innovation in the municipalities of the Valencian Community, with an investment effort that goes from 3.5 million euros to 4 million euros or new projects, such as the creation of an Innovation LAB in tourism. It has also announced a "profound remodeling" of the Valencian Innovation Agency, in addition to an upcoming international tender for companies with experience in the audiovisual field in set management for Ciudad de la Luz.
Regarding the fairs, about which the councilor has acknowledged that she is asked a lot in her appearances, she explained the new financial allocation for both IFA and Feria Valencia and has assured that for both, "a new model is opening up that has to have activity the 365 days of the year".
