Carla Aliño and Loli Benlloch | Valencia (EFE) of respect” and of “contempt” for the citizenry that there are parties that raise it that way.
The State of Autonomies “must be taken seriously”, the president highlighted during the Breakfasts of the EFE Agency at the Valencia Bar Association, where he stated that self-government “is fundamental and it would be inconsistent not to give the elections the value they have”.
Sufficient funding support
At this end of the legislature, Puig admits that one of the issues on the agenda that has remained pending is the reform of the regional financing system, in which he has not achieved the progress he would like, although he affirms that it depends on various actors: the Government of Spain, the political groups in Congress and the rest of the communities.
Despite everything, it stands out as positive that with the governments of Pedro Sánchez the Valencians have had “sufficient support” to converge in social spending with the state average, something that was previously “impossible”, so that, although it has not been solved the financing problem, a way has been found to invest what the Region needs.
Puig asserts that this discrimination in financing towards Valencians “has to change”, although he admits that the problem in Spain is that at the moment it is “impossible” to seek “meeting points” due to the attitude of the PP, as has been also seen in the non-renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary.
“What cannot be is that it is never the time for agreements,” he reproaches the PP Puig, who explains that he believed that the new national leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, would have, in his capacity as former regional president, a vision “more peripheral, more federalist”, which would promote agreements.
The best possible relationship with the government
The president, who is playing for a third term in these regional elections, assures that during his eight years in government he has maintained “the best possible relationship” with the central government, first that of Mariano Rajoy and then that of Pedro Sánchez, although the arrival of the latter has meant “an effective favorable change” to the Community.
“The general balance is positive,” says Puig, who admits that there have been issues in which they have not agreed and have defended the position of the Valencian Community, such as the royal decree that reduces the arrival of water from the Tagus to the Segura or in the investments destined to Alicante in the last budgets of the State.
Even so, he considers that it would be “very unfair” in the global sphere to say that the Government of Spain has not addressed some “fundamental” issues, such as investments to support the Volkswagen gigafactory in Sagunto or for the production of electric vehicles at Ford Almussafes. , so you have to be “even-tempered.”
Spain is much more than the M-30
Puig claims that Spain “is much more than the M-30, the M-40 or the M-60, it is much more” and ensures that “the reality of Spain” is “much more powerful” and “much more diverse”. than what is sometimes reflected in the national media.
Another of the issues that has remained pending is the reform of the Constitution to recognize Valencian civil law, on which he admits that it is “difficult to reach an agreement” with the PP, although he assures that an attempt will be made to influence the socialist group of the Congress, where the Valencian deputies “will act accordingly”. EFE