The plenary session of the Valencian Cortes approved this Wednesday the Generalitat's budget law for 2024, the first of the government chaired by the popular Carlos Mazón and his Vox partners. The reports include voting against the socialist opposition and compromises.
The budget for next year amounts to 29,739 million euros, 4% more than last year. While in previous years and under the progressive government of PSOE and Compromís the opposition criticized the inclusion of an item of 1,300 million because of underfunding, PP and Vox have included 900 million euros, which they want to collect from the support guarantee fund (Foga), with which the costs of caring for patients from the rest of Spain and foreigners, although this fund has not been paid out for years.
However, this will not be the only adjustment the government will have to make if it does not receive this. The Consell prepared the budgets based on estimates from the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) regarding deliveries to the government accounts to the municipalities and with a forecast that the deficit limit would be 0.3% instead of the 0.1% finally set. The Valencian government's forecasts also do not match the figures provided by the government for the dissolution of the regional financing system for 2022. Overall, the budgets are drawn up with a gap of almost 400 million euros between planned expenditure and expected income.
President Carlos Mazón had already declared that he had no intention of changing the budget plans and therefore rebelled against the government's instructions. “My answer is no, I will not change the budgets. I will not change them and Sánchez's cuts will not be applied if they come late, if they come badly, if they come irresponsible. “We’re not going to change the budgets, and I can’t and I don’t want to,” he said.
In defense of her positive vote, Vox MP Ana Vega spoke of the end of the “fiscal hell” of previous governments against the tax cuts on inheritance and gift taxes contained in these budgets. Vega also said that with the new Consell the “language Gestapo” and “aid to separatist units” would end. The popular Miguel Barrachina has congratulated the accounts despite the government's “information boycott” due to the delay in the government's calculation of down payments and financing statements.
Compromís spokesperson Aitana Mas concluded that the PP and Vox accounts “do not cover the needs of the Valencian people and that they condemn this country to inequality.” “For the families with the greatest needs, this government will last a long time,” Mas said.
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The socialist Jose Muñoz has argued that his refusal concerns not only the content of the budget plans, but also the “model”, but also the situation as a whole, and has accused the PP of supporting the extreme right in government when they an This Tuesday he said that “a very dangerous limit has been crossed”, referring to the blows to the chest inflicted by the Vice President of the Generalitat, Vicente Barrera, on the Socialist deputy José Cholvi, which, in the opinion of Muñoz “symbolize the violence that this unleashed.” We democrats must avoid the institutions.” “The struggle has always been dialectical in the Cortes because this is the house of the word,” he said.