Vox takes the Valencian Country to be the first territory to include 'national priority' in the budgets

ValenciaIt was not the first territory where the PP and Vox agreed to a joint government, as Castilla y León had done a year and four months earlier, but the Valencian Community will indeed be the first autonomous community to include the criterion of "national priority" in its budgets. Specifically, in various allocations for the granting of social aid.

“To develop measures that facilitate young people's access to housing in depopulated rural areas, collaborating in the revitalization of the rural environment, incorporating the principle of national priority, in accordance with current legislation, which seeks the preferential allocation of public resources to those who maintain a real, lasting, and verifiable connection to the Valencian Community, with the aim of ensuring the applicant's effective and affective relationship with the region,” states, for example, the article promoting residency in small municipalities.

Until now, the formula was only foreseen in the government agreements reached this year between the PP and Vox in Aragon, Extremadura, Castilla y León, and Andalusia. Now, however, it is already in a law as the far-right party had demanded, which considers the criterion of "rootedness" insufficient.

“National priority by law. The first budgets in which a concept that has arrived to stay is included. Sooner rather than later it will reach national legislation,” boasted José María Llanos, Vox spokesperson minutes before announcing that the census will be the “first barrier” so that “the money of the Valencians goes to the Valencians before anyone else”.

The position of the PP

The new head of the Council, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, has shown himself to be more prudent, defending that the PP "does not bow down to anyone" but rather pursues "dialogue and consensus." The conservative politician has boasted, however, of having pushed forward his first budgets – which amount to 33,305 million euros – after his arrival in the executive last November, when he had to fill the void created by Carlos Mazón's resignation.

In a much more critical tone, the general secretary of the Valencian socialists and minister of the Spanish government, Diana Morant, has stated that the PP and Vox have "turned apartheid into law." This is why last week she already announced that the state executive will appeal the budgets before the Constitutional Court. She also lamented that the Valencian Country is the first territory that "will have a racist and xenophobic priority" in its accounts. "The Constitution recognizes equality between citizens, and it is this equality that they want to break," she concluded.

The only discrepancy between the PP and Vox occurred in relation to the Valencian Academy of Language, from which the ultras wanted to cut 972,000 euros more. They intended to extend the reduction of up to 25% already announced by the Popular Party. A request to which the conservatives, however, have refused.