Compromís demands to improve financing and invest in infrastructure in Valencia to support the Budgets

MADRID, 4 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Compromís spokesperson in Congress, Joan Baldoví, has conditioned this Tuesday the support of his formation to the General State Budgets (PGE) agreed by PSOE and Podemos to the improvement of financing and the increase in investment in infrastructures for the Valencian Community.

The two parties that make up the Government have reached an 'in extremis' agreement on the PGE for next year early on Tuesday. The second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has detailed that the agreement includes, among other things, the deployment of a Family Law that will include new reconciliation permits and the revaluation of pensions.

At a press conference, Baldoví stressed that, while waiting to know the details of the agreement, what is known at the moment "are things that Compromís likes" and mentioned, among others, the increase in the salaries of civil servants or the increase in items that it has considered "fundamental in times of crisis", such as dependency.

Of course, to obtain the support of Compromís, the spokesman for the Valencian formation has warned that the agreement must "maintain the achievements" achieved in other PGE. Thus, he has specifically alluded to investment in the autonomous community approaching its demographic weight, the balance between what the State and the autonomous community pay in terms of dependency, and the increase in investment in infrastructure.

"In specific dependence, the State pays around 20 percent and the autonomous community 80 when it should be 50-50", Baldoví has ​​clarified. Regarding infrastructures, he has spoken of investments in commuter and medium-distance trains, "the transport used by people who go to work or to the hospital" and "really backbone of a country".

In this context, Baldoví recalled that this Wednesday, in the control session with the Government, he will ask the president, Pedro Sánchez, about the establishment of a regional equalization fund so that the underfinanced autonomous communities, such as the Valencian Community itself, reach the state average.

The Compromís spokesman has specified that the measure is a "temporary solution" until the approval of a new regional financing system, but has insisted that "it is possible" to carry it out and "it is not excessively expensive", since the supplement to the underfunded regions would be about 2,400 million.

"It does not touch anyone, it simply helps those who are below" and prevents these communities from being able to pay for their public services "without resorting to the debt mechanism" called the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (FLA), he concluded.