Compromís will not be received in the round of consultations by King Felipe VI to designate a new candidate for the investiture. Yes, representatives of UPN or the Canarian Coalition with fewer deputies have passed through Zarzuela. In fact, the votes of its two deputies are taken for granted (Compromís-Sumar got 4 representatives in the Valencian Community, but one was from Sumar and the other from Esquerra Unida) for Pedro Sánchez to form a government.
In this situation, Compromís does not want to stop being the protagonist and puts its agenda of demands on the table to give its support to the foreseeable PSOE candidate for re-election. Along these lines, yesterday the coalition convened the media to launch the main proposals that they will present during the negotiation of the investiture agreement to assemble a future progressive government of the State.
At the press conference, the coalition deputies in Congress, Àgueda Micó and Alberto Ibáñez, did not want to give details of what the negotiation was going to be like or whether they would sit face to face with the representatives of the PSOE. They did want to make it clear that Compromís will have a presence “at the highest level” in the negotiations.
In this sense, Micó pointed out that Sumar accepts and endorses the demands of political Valencianism, so the pressure on Sánchez is not from the only two deputies in the coalition but from the 31 that make up Sumar's parliamentary group in Congress.
At the same time that Micó and Ibáñez will show this conviction, the spokesman for Sumar, Ernest Urtasun, urged the socialists to derail the negotiation and, among the petitions, included the reform of the autonomous financing system.
This is the main demand of the Valencian formation. Aware of the difficulties of reaching an agreement that does not confront the different autonomies (now the majority are in the hands of the PP), Compromís has demanded that, until the change of model is approved, there be a leveling fund that allows the worst-treated autonomies reach the Spanish average.
Among the demands of the Valencians is also to talk about the forgiveness of the historical debt, which is estimated at 46,000 million, and the transfer of powers in Cercanías. The coalition does not forget the recovery of Valencian civil law and demands that the State pay the health debt for the expenses of the displaced or assume, as the law establishes, 50% of the cost of the dependency.
Many of these demands were already reflected, without success, in the investiture agreement of the previous legislature. Despite this, Compromís has not found formulas to guarantee compliance with the agreements. Yesterday, its deputies asked that the focus be placed on those who fail to comply, but also on the rest of the deputies of the Valencian Community who do not move to achieve beneficial progress for their land.
