Puig accuses Ayuso from the Senate of dismantling the welfare state

MADRID, 14 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the Valencian Community, Ximo Puig, has highlighted that his Executive has "a different political model" from that of the Community of Madrid, contrasting his "commitment to a powerful social State" against, as he has said, "the dismantling of the welfare state" of the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.

"We do not come to give lessons to anyone, as we do not like to receive lessons from anyone," Puig proclaimed from the Senate when asked if Ayuso had answered the offer made by the Valencian president to participate in some act in the month of the Valencian Community in Madrid.

Puig has gathered this Tuesday the Valencian senators and deputies in the Upper House, from where he has explained that he has no record that Ayuso has answered his offer and has wanted to "make it very clear" that the Valencian Community and Madrid "have many questions in common".

However, he has insisted that, while the Valencian Government "is committed to dialogue", the Executive of Isabel Díaz Ayuso "has the path of dismantling the Welfare State". "But beyond the political differences that exist, what we want is to add, because it is about adding, that each Community does not think only of its region, but empathizes and has a more federal vision", she added.

The Valencian president, who is having an important agenda this month in the Community of Madrid, has chosen the Senate to bring together the Valencian deputies and senators with the aim of "analyzing relations between the central government and that of the Community".

In this context, Puig has highlighted that the majority territorial group of senators and deputies is Valencian, for which he intends it to be a "transmission belt" to talk about the reform of the regional financing model, water and employment.