The end of the legislature cracks the consensus on the Valencian left. The prompt dissolution of the Corts Valencianes and the desire to set a profile and approve certain measures before the electoral appointment has caused each party to wage war on its own, trying to squeeze the maximum out of the three plenary sessions that remain before the electoral campaign. There is no time for more negotiations with what PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem have put their cards on the table without caring about the image of disunity that this may entail.
The most obvious example is the two legislative modifications presented by the PSPV with the aim of advancing in the abolition of prostitution, a "firm" commitment of the Socialists that has not been able to materialize in this second legislature due to the lack of consensus with their Commitment partners. In fact, what is presented is a proposal similar to the one defended for years by the Minister of Justice, Gabriela Bravo, but which was never processed due to the opposition of the then Vice President Mónica Oltra.
Yesterday, at 10 o'clock in the morning -the start time of the meeting of the Parliamentary Bureau-, the Socialists presented two bills to change two regional regulations with the intention that neither the roads owned by the Generalitat nor in establishments space or publicity is given "to an activity that directly threatens the dignity of women victims of prostitution".
A proposal that his partners were unaware of and that he has also asked for it to be read only. A maneuver that Compromís rejected outright, understanding that an issue as complicated and with as many edges as prostitution "could not be reduced to a single reading procedure, without the possibility of debate, from one day to the next."
Its spokespersons, Papi Robles and Carles Esteve, argued that they do not understand that "at the last minute an issue is raised that is not closed." Of course, they refrained from ruling on the content of the legislative changes proposed by the PSPV, as did the trustee of Unides Podem, Pilar Lima.
However, the socialists defend that it is an adequate procedure since the groups only have to position themselves with respect to the proposed changes. In addition, its spokesperson Ana Barceló defended the need to move forward with the initiative in the face of the alarming cases of gender violence. Although its partners do not understand, everything indicates that the initiative will go ahead since the PP has already slipped that it will approve it.
More complicated to ratify will be the Unides Podem Proposition No Law on "the implementation of measures to respond to the rise in the prices of basic foods." Among the initiatives, it stands out that a basic food shopping basket is defined in order to "limit its oscillations" as well as the possibility of "creating a tax that taxes the extraordinary profits of large distribution chains and large supermarkets." Compromís said it was "completely in agreement" with the substance of the proposal but the PSPV did not pronounce.
And it is that the agreements do not seem to be the keynote of this end of the legislature. Not even in matters such as regional financing. After waiting a few months with the desire to reach a consensus and seeing that "progress was not being made in the right way", Compromís and Unides Podem have distanced themselves from the PSPV and have presented a Bill to modify the regional financing system by adjusting the distribution funds to the idea of a legal population and asking for the cancellation of the historical debt of the Valencian Community.
