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Carlos Mazón and Ximo Puig, in their meeting last December.
The arrival of Alberto Nunez Feijoo to the presidency of the PP has meant changes in the strategy of opposition to the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Nuances, at least, in terms of the intention to mark his own profile without falling into the ‘no to everything’ of which Pablo Casado was accused. Although the first meeting between the two leaders did not end with anything concrete, the offer of agreements was on the table. And this is the line that follows Carlos Mazon In the Valencian community.
The president of the Valencian Popular Party has not been slow to send a letter to the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, to offer their collaboration in the elaboration of a plan to overcome the economic crisis. “I formally ask you to set a date to meet and work together,” says Mazón in the letter.
Yes, the leader of the popular Valencians do not hide their “profound concern for the serious social and economic crisis that citizens live”. In other words, for Mazón the aid announced by the Generalitat to alleviate the crisis in different sectors is insufficient. The proposal to reduce regional taxes, for example, was dispatched with the argument that it was directly a “ximotrola”.
“There is much we can do and we should not wait any longer”Mazón insists to the president, to which he attaches his particular “decalogue for the social and economic recovery of the Valencian Community.” The president of the PPCV makes it clear to Puig that, in any case, it has been prepared “together with the affected social and professional sectors.”
The PP has been claiming a lower taxes In the Valencian community. Hence, the document sent to the president of the Generalitat raises “fiscal measures” from the outset. For example, “a plan to alleviate the effects of the rise in gas and electricity, charged to the collection that the State transfers from said tax, amounting to 100 million euros, destined for the self-employed, SMEs and businesses.”
Along these lines, a plan is also proposed to counteract the rise in hydrocarbons, for a value of 400 million euros. Other measures are the deflation of the rates of assigned and autonomous taxes, or the suspension of rates and licenses for the sectors most affected by the crisis.
In addition to various measures once morest energy poverty, the PP includes demands to the central government such as the reduction of the Special Tax on Hydrocarbons or a super reduced VAT for natural gas and urban heating. And a measure in which Feijóo has placed special emphasis: “Use the increase in revenue obtained by the State as a result of the rise in prices to alleviate the situation of companies and families that are suffering more intensely.”
In any case, the relationship between the two leaders is not exactly fluid. Mazón took months to be received by Puig when he became the new president of the PPCV replacing Isabel Bonig. Of course, that meeting served to align both in the demand for a change in the regional financing model of which nothing has been known since.
