The PSPV-PP agreement on Inheritance Tax, closer than a botanical pact on renewables

The parmanentarios groups that support and make up the Valencian Government -PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem- joined forces yesterday to reject the amendments to the entirety presented by the opposition to both the 2023 Budget Law and the Accompaniment Law.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
21 November 2022 Monday 21:32
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The PSPV-PP agreement on Inheritance Tax, closer than a botanical pact on renewables

The parmanentarios groups that support and make up the Valencian Government -PSPV, Compromís and Unides Podem- joined forces yesterday to reject the amendments to the entirety presented by the opposition to both the 2023 Budget Law and the Accompaniment Law. In this way, both regulations -key to the functioning of any Executive- will continue their parliamentary process with the idea that they can be approved before Christmas.

Before its approval, the amendments of one and the other to the two texts presented by the Consell will have to be debated and there the unity of action of the Valencian left will crack. As was made clear in the statements made yesterday by the trustees of the different parties, an agreement between the PSPV and the PP is closer to also subsidize the Inheritance Tax for family businesses that invoice more than 10 million euros (at those that are below this bonus is already applied) than an agreement between the partners around renewables.

The PP trustee, María José Catalá, explained that, after examining the socialist proposal to abolish this tax on companies that are inherited within the same family, "the first perception is that an agreement could be reached." Catalá made these statements after the president of the PPCV, Carlos Mazón, left his party's support for Puig's initiative on the air.

The trustee justified the change in the fact that now they already have the PSPV proposal in writing and it agrees with the spirit of an amendment presented by them, with which it seems logical that there should be an agreement. Of course, during the negotiation, the popular ones will press the PSPV so that this bonus does not remain only in families and also includes, as they request in another text, families and not only companies.

Regarding this agreement with his main political rival, Barceló did not want to go into details: "The agreements are demonstrated by voting." Yes, she was more explicit when it came to defending her party's position of not giving in to the requests of her partners from Compromís and Unides Podem who presented a whole series of amendments to regulate the implementation of renewable energies in the Valencian territory.

Both Papi Robles (Compromís) and Ferran Martínez (UP) demanded that the PSPV "comply with the pact of last May" which served to unblock the renewable energy decree in exchange for introducing a whole series of nuances in the Accompaniment Law. The agreements "must be complied with and respected," argued the PSPV partners who trusted that an agreement would finally be reached for the sake of "loyalty and honesty."

Despite the optimism that the Compromís trustee showed above all - convinced that the pressure will make the PSPV fold to a last-minute agreement as usually happens -, Barceló's response was very blunt. The spokeswoman for the socialist group argued that they cannot "change the rules of the game in the middle of the game" and accepting the proposal of their partners "would mean a setback for all the projects that are underway, since they propose that it have a retroactive effect."

In addition, he denied having breached any agreement since what was agreed between the groups was to "urge the Council" to include a whole series of measures in the Accompaniment Law, assuming that if the Valencian Government had considered that it did not have to include them, the PSPV I didn't have to pick them up.