All claims associated with dana, including the detour of the tragic Poyo ravine. But also old unresolved problems like Valencian underfunding either the lack of water in the province of Alicante.
These are some of the big questions that the newly elected president of the Generalitat Valenciana will put on the table of the president of the government, Juan Francisco Pérez Llorca. The nomination, as EL ESPAÑOL was able to contrast, it will be next week. The day has been chosen and will soon be official.
The last meeting between Pedro Sanchez and a Valencian president took place on October 4, 2024, just before the natural disaster which claimed the lives of 230 people in Valencia on the 29th.
Since then, despite the misfortune and the multiple requests of the then president Carlos Mazonthe head of the Executive had rejected a meeting between the two.
The list of demands is therefore that accumulated for almost 14 months, in addition to those that Pérez Llorca wishes to present from his harvest. The dana will cover a large part of the Community’s requests to the Spanish government.
The Ministry of Ecological Transition recently announced the call for tenders for the development of a new project for diversion, channeling and rolling works which protect the municipalities of the Poyo basin from flooding.
The execution period of this new project will be three years and, in the best case, the subsequent execution of the works will require another three years. As soon as possible, therefore, ground zero of the tragedy will only be protected in 2031.
All this after the Spanish government abandoned the previous project, validated in 2011 by Therese Riberawhen the current European vice-president was Zapatero’s secretary of state.
He Plan Endavant for the reconstruction of Valencia, designed by the former vice-president Francisco Jose Gan Pampolsscheduled this performance. He will serve as a guide for Pérez Llorca to convey to Sánchez the Valencian demands that cannot be postponed.
Poyo’s is one of them. The Valencian Generalitat will demand the execution of the project and that it be carried out as soon as possible.
Joint Commission
Furthermore, with the aim of coordinating the reconstruction between the two administrations, the Generalitat has been demanding for a year the creation of a a joint commission between the Government and the Generalitatto which the socialist leader refused.
The new regional president of the PP hopes that Mazón’s resignation will pave the way for the resumption of cooperation between administrations, and that this will result in the creation of the aforementioned commission, created between socialist governments to face the devastation of the La Palma volcano.
The Generalitat Valenciana also requires other issues from the State, such as adequate staffing of town halls to manage the reconstruction works, or that the submission deadline is flexible and does not prevent their development.
Beyond the dana, Juanfran Pérez Llorca will go to the Moncloa Palace with the same requirement as his three predecessors in power: the approval of a new regional financing model or a leveling mechanism that would immediately correct Valencia’s underfinancing.
The current distribution system, which has expired since 2014, places the Valencian Community, along with Murcia and Andalusia, at the bottom of the scale of per capita funding.
Pedro Sánchez, accompanied by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, on October 7 in Congress.
Since then, the only solution provided by the central government has been allow affected regions to borrow moregranted by the Executive itself through the so-called Autonomous Liquidity Fund (FLORIDA.).
Valencia’s debt has only increased. In the first half of this year, it exceeded 60 billion euros, and experts attribute up to 80% of this to underfinancing suffered by the state.
The dana and its high cost seemed to be the appropriate context for the government to at least grant the Valencian Community the aforementioned equalization fund that would equalize its income with that of the Spanish average, pending the reform of the system.
Instead, Sánchez only plans debt relief for nowwhich is granted to all territories with criteria discussed by the autonomy after the agreement with ERC for the cancellation of a large part of the Catalan debt.
The other big problem that Pérez Llorca will put on the table of Pedro Sánchez is the lack of water in the province of Alicante due to protection of the ecological flow of the Tagus and, consequently, the reduction of the quantities brought by this river through the Tajo-Segura transfer.
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