The Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Nuria Montes, appeared yesterday in the plenary session of Les Corts Valencianes to outline the details of her government program, which covers large economic areas, and among her measures she announced the launch of a technological tool that allows identifying all the industrial and logistical land of the Valencian Community, which will be "available to investors. In this line, he assured that the Generalitat Valenciana will approve before the end of the year an aid to promote the implementation of the gigafactory of Sagunt batteries.
He opted for Montes to revalue the industry and assured that he will work so that it goes from representing 15% of the Valencian GDP to 20%. The way will be, for example, through a "new cluster policy" that will be framed in "a secure legal framework", influencing "strategic projects" for the territory as generators of wealth and even through international support, such as the European Alliance of Semiconductors of which 27 European regions are already part, including Valencia. He also explained that technological-digital hubs will be created in the ports of Castellón, Valencia and Alicante.
Montes championed his commitment to the industry and the company throughout his speech. He insisted that the Valencian economy has "structural inefficiencies that we will work to reverse" and noted that the Valencian Government will be "a constant beacon on the horizon of companies, a faithful partner 24 hours a day." Here he took the opportunity to distance himself from those who "launch smear campaigns that only turn against those who create them", in clear allusion to the criticism of the business community that Podem carried out in the last electoral campaign.
Thus, he assured on two occasions that the Generalitat Valenciana will lay out a "red carpet for anyone who wants to start their business" and defended the abolition of the Inheritance and Donation Tax because he pointed out that until now it has also been an impediment for entrepreneurship. "Entrepreneurs will find constant support instead of an obstacle in the Administration," he added.
Montes also advocated for reaching an "agreement to achieve energy sovereignty" of the Valencian Community, "promoting leadership in renewable energies." And he explained that the Consell "will agree on a Valencian Green Hydrogen Pact with the main actors and sectors involved in the generation and potential use of this energy source", with the reference to the ceramic sector of Castellón as the axis.
Regarding commerce, an area for which she is also responsible, Nuria Montes announced bonuses to promote artisanal commerce and the "Comerciarte" plan to boost consumption in historic areas of cities linked to the tourism sector.
Finally, Montes reserved for last her department's proposals for the tourism sector, an area she dominates after having been general secretary of the Hosbec hotel association for almost three decades. Thus, he demanded the repeal of the tourist tax, which he assured was a "sectarian" measure without any consensus, and announced that his department will confront the underground economy linked to tourist apartments with Artificial Intelligence, a proposal that he had already advanced. in some interview and that will mean that bots review the illegal offers that are advertised on portals and platforms 24 hours a day.
"We will be especially rigorous in the sanctioning regime," he noted about this type of tourism that, he assured, "undermines equality of conditions in the market, causes inconvenience to neighbors" and causes "the loss of the supply of housing available for residents with the proliferation of the underground economy".
Likewise, the councilor defended working on deseasonalization measures such as the travel voucher, the promotion of local festivals and the request to the Government of Spain for a new economic framework for the Imserso program, a criticism that she had already harshly made as a member of Hosbec and which she now maintains as a counselor.
He also defended cruise tourism with the aspiration that "Alicante, Valencia and Castellón can be home ports for the greatest possible number of cruise ships" and recovered the concept of "large events" to defend that the Consell will work to "reposition the Valencian Community in the circuit of major world events".
