The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, will meet simultaneously with the presidents of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, and of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno, both from the PP, in the first quarter of 2024. Later he plans to do the same with the popular President of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, and with the Balearic President Marga Prohens. However, Mazón has ruled out meeting with President Pere Aragonés, even though it is a neighboring autonomy, because, as he said, “he has little in common with him.”
At the three-way meeting with the representatives of the Murcians and the Andalusians, common issues in the three areas will be addressed. A meeting that, as he said, is a priority. He wants to talk to Aragón about logistical issues and to the Balearic president about tourism issues. This was stated by the President of the Generalitat Valenciana in an interview with Cadena SER, in which he also announced that, as other presidents have done, he would request in writing from the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to convene a conference with the Regional Presidents to meet with the Address the fundamentals of reforming the regional financing system.
Regarding the regional budget, Carlos Mazón has denied having drawn up an “upward-looking” budget or that he is putting pressure on the government by refusing to correct the bills that come with a forecast of the deficit limit of 0.3% instead of 0.1% were created by the government. The popular leader reiterated that Sánchez's government had not previously presented data on state transfers, explaining that the Valencian Community and Murcia should be granted this differentiated deficit since they are the worst financed. In any case, he hopes that both in terms of government transfers and the deficit, as he said, the corresponding adjustments will be agreed in the technical meetings between the Ministry and the Ministry of Finance.
The president of the Generalitat was also questioned about his agreement with Vox, the first agreement reached in the autonomous communities that held elections in May. The interview explained how some voices in his party attributed Alberto Núñez Feijóo's narrow result in the July general election to the explicit governing pact he had made with Vox. According to the also leader of the Valencian People's Party, “he is not aware” that Genoa thinks this and has assured that if Feijóo did not obtain a sufficient majority for the government, it was due to “various circumstances” and that on everyone The case of the Valencian PP contributed to the electoral victory of the population, since the results of the regional elections in May were improved.
In addition, with regard to his government partners, he summarized the controversies carried out by Vox with “they speak in their own words”, such as calling the PSOE a coup party, demanding that books on diversity and sexuality be removed from the children's section of libraries, etc linking the Maghreb population to gang rape. Mazón said none of these statements gave him a headache. “The headaches – he explained – are caused by problems such as unreported invoices, accidental contracts or the administrative traps that, as he says, he encountered upon his arrival in the Generalitat.”
Mazón has also referred to the opposition parties in the Valencian Community, PSPV and Compromís, stating that he will wait until the PSPV completes its internal renewal process to begin negotiations on the renewal of statutory institutions such as the Consell Jurídic Consultiu. the Sindicatura de Comptes or the Consell Valencià de Cultura. As he said, he hopes to negotiate with a socialist leadership “that has the widest possible representation.”
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