The consensus on financing collapses 48 hours before Mazón's meeting with Pedro Sánchez

The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, will go to the Palacio de la Moncloa this Friday to meet openly with Pedro Sánchez. The consensus on the underfunding of the Valencian Community, which no one denies, has blown up in the control session of the Consell in Les Corts Valencianes held this Wednesday.

The Platform for Fair Financing on Friday was the prelude to a breakup that leaves two distinct blocks: one, led by Mazón, demanding historical debt caused by regional underfunding and the transitional leveling fund. Another, with the PSPV, which rejects this instrument, which would give around 1.7 billion annually to the Community until a new regional financing system is approved.

Mazón presented himself at the control session in Les Corts with a document listing 56 reasons why the Valencian Community "cannot wait any longer" to receive funding. Among them is a transitional leveling fund to equalize the Community to the average of regions until financing reform.

After reproaching the socialists for having "nothing to say" and having "renounced" the fund, he accused them of committing "the worst betrayal to everyone," even to former president Ximo Puig, who "a year and a half ago" requested this measure.

Regarding the 56 reasons document, the head of the Consell explained that he has already handed it over to CCOO PV and UGT-PV unions and the regional employers' association CEV for their contributions, while rejecting Compromís' criticism that it is "a little paper": "That little paper is about defending the Valencian Community."

For his part, PSPV spokesperson José Muñoz questioned Mazón "what consensus are you talking about" when it was the PP that "was not" in the platform Per un Finançament Just when it was founded. He also asked the head of the Consell "which transitional fund do you defend, that of experts that brings more money to the Community or that of PP which will bring 700 million more to Galicia."

The socialists are betting on a debt write-off for the Valencian Community, an offer from Pedro Sánchez's government in exchange for accepting Catalonia's 'quota'.

Meanwhile, Compromís moves in between. The spokesperson, Joan Baldoví, lamented the rise in debt to almost 60 billion and criticized the "breakup" between PP and PSPV on financing after years of work and consensus.

"The message to the Socialist Party is very clear: being left-wing is not incompatible with defending Valencian interests above all else, and Compromís proves it," he stressed.