PP and Vox finalize an agreement to govern the Valencia City Council together. An agreement that could be announced in the coming days and even hours after a few months of tensions between two parties that, it cannot be forgotten, govern the Generalitat Valenciana in coalition.
Vox would become part of the new government team of the mayor, María José Catalá, after she was reluctant to include the far-right party among her government colleagues. It has not been an easy start to the legislature for the first mayor (with 13 of the 33 councilors), who has seen how she even lost some votes or had to seek support from the left to carry out some votes.
When it seemed that the tension was going to blow up any bridge between the so-called preferred partners, a four-way meeting between the mayor herself, the Councilor for Large Projects, José Marí Olano, on behalf of the PP; and the municipal spokesperson for Vox and the provincial president, Ignacio Gil Lázaro (a person of Santiago Abascal's greatest confidence), served to reduce the tension.
A day later, Vox supported without question and without introducing any changes the tax ordinances proposed by the PP and, hours later, the City Council reported that it had informed Valencia CF that it would not carry out any negotiations on the urban planning agreement until the Club effectively resumes the construction works on the New Stadium, paralyzed for almost fifteen years. The agreement with Peter Lim has been one of Vox's workhorses since the beginning of the legislature
Thus, both Catalá and Badenas made clear yesterday their intention to deepen the negotiations to ensure the approval of the 2024 municipal budgets. However, they wanted to separate this negotiation from a Government pact. Despite this, municipal sources have confirmed to this newspaper that the pact is increasingly closer to the point that there is talk that it could be presented this week.
