The PSPV bets on variable geometry for the end of the legislature

The latest movements in Les Corts Valencianes denote the intention of the PSPV to bet on variable geometry and, without putting the Botànic pact at risk, thus approving issues that they consider fundamental before the end of the legislature.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
03 November 2022 Thursday 23:33
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The PSPV bets on variable geometry for the end of the legislature

The latest movements in Les Corts Valencianes denote the intention of the PSPV to bet on variable geometry and, without putting the Botànic pact at risk, thus approving issues that they consider fundamental before the end of the legislature. To do this, the Socialists have already shown these days that their rings will not fall if they have to seek parliamentary support beyond their partners.

The socialist parliamentary group already expressed this Wednesday its firm decision to present alone a proposal to discount 99% of the Inheritance Tax to all family businesses. A change that alters what was agreed within the Valencian Government in the fiscal reform and for which the PSPV will need the support of the opposition.

Some votes that, judging by what the representatives of the PP and Citizens said, will be given in the process of amendments to the Accompaniment Law that still has to be presented in Les Corts.

The proposal has made a bad impression on Compromís and Unides Podem, but it does not seem that at this point it is going to crack a government that has shielded itself with the accounts. In addition, despite the internal differences, in Compromís they know that, in a certain way, they have to thank the president of the Generalitat for his collaboration in solving the crisis of the dismissal of Mireia Mollà and in Unides Podem they cannot complain about how the budget. Its only two Consellerias are the ones that rise the most in percentage terms.

And it is that Puig has wanted to distribute the game (he is aware that he needs his two partners to respond electorally) and give them facilities, but that is not why he is going to give up fulfilling electoral promises such as the one he has dragged before the family business since 2019.

Puig was also aware that after promising aid and support to the tile companies, it did not make much sense to impose a new tax on them for the Emission of Greenhouse Gases. For this reason, the Socialists dropped their partners and presented their own amendments.

Finally, before the commission they reached an agreement with Compromís to condition the deduction of this tax on investments to avoid pollution. An agreement in which Unides Podem was not present and Ciudadanos was used to carry it out.

The Socialists already have the electoral calculator in hand and do not want certain issues to take their toll at the polls. Another example: Last week they got up from the negotiating table and this Wednesday their trustee, Ana Barceló, made it clear that they were not going to participate in the technical commission that supposedly planned to reach an agreement on the strike of the deputies in Les Corts . A formula in which all the groups, except Vox, would be willing a priori.

Although the priority is to maintain the vote of the Botànic parliamentary groups, the door is not closed to finding new support on certain issues. A circumstance that, at first, annoys its partners. However, from calm reflection, at least in Compromís, they admit that this PSPV strategy of looking towards the center gives them room to mark distances and mobilize that clearly left-wing electorate that the Botànic needs to be able to repeat.