The agreement that has allowed the entry of Vox into the municipal government led by María José Catalá and that will be made official tomorrow grants the areas of Family and Children, Seniors and Youth, Markets and Health, traditional festivals without failures, and the management of the Devesa from Saler to the Abascal party, according to sources from this formation. In addition, spokesperson Juan Manuel Bádenas will manage Economy, Employment and Entrepreneurship and his councilors will also have another mayoral position. Some of these competitions had been advanced by COPE Valencia and have been confirmed by this newspaper.
Vox becomes 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.
