Compromís will demand from Pedro Sánchez's PSOE the introduction in the next general budgets of the State of a temporary leveling fund that compensates for the deficit caused by underfinancing in the autonomies most affected by the current system of distribution of resources between the territories.. The Valencians have made the first “informal” contacts with the team of the socialist deputy secretary and acting Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, with the intention of probing the status of the investiture negotiation, assuming that the popular Alberto Núñez Feijóo will not achieve the necessary positive votes this week to be elected president of the Government.

Following the more than likely failed investiture of the PP leader, a race against the clock begins in which the socialists and Sumar plan to obtain enough support for Sánchez to revalidate the Moncloa seat.. For weeks now, the possible approval of an amnesty law for pro-independence leaders with pending cases related to the process and the events of October 1, 2017 in Catalonia has been on the national agenda, including the former president of the Catalan Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, now on the run. of Justice and outside Spain. ERC and Junts are the most interested in carrying out this measure in exchange for guaranteeing the investiture, and they also add claims regarding budgetary and territorial tax matters..

However, that of the sovereignists or the PNV is not the only vote that the PSOE needs to remain in the Government.. The formation of Yolanda Díaz has within her parliamentary group two MPs from Compromís, the deputy spokesperson of the group, Àgueda Micó, and Alberto Ibáñez. The confederal alliance with Sumar and the fact of having been evicted from the Valencian Generalitat and important city councils of the Valencian Community have greatly reduced the visibility of the Valencian coalition. Micó is also working on his public profile, replacing Joan Baldoví, better known in the halls of Congress, but now dedicated to regional politics and spokesperson tasks in the Valencian Parliament..

For the Valencians, the negotiation of the investiture is a litmus test to establish a position, since they have freedom of vote within the Sumar group.. Despite the tight makeup of the majority, in which the investiture is played by a very narrow margin of vote, in Compromís they admit that they could hardly overthrow an investiture if a great alliance of the PSOE and Sumar is closed with the rest of the nationalist forces and the independentists. But, in a parliamentary souk scenario like the one that resulted from the 23-J polls, in the Valencian Community there are already voices that warn that Compromís will lose an opportunity if it does not obtain compensation in favor of its territory in exchange for the investiture of Sánchez.

Sources from the Valencian party take it for granted that Montero will once again commit to the reform of regional financing, as he already did in the 2019 investiture agreement, although it was later put on hold sine die.. A promise without a calendar and clear signs that you are serious will not seem credible at first.. Compromís sources indicate that they will continue to demand the reform in writing. But also the transitional solution while a new Organic Law of Financing of the Autonomous Communities (Lofca) is processed and negotiated..

The immediate introduction of this leveling fund in next year's general budgets would be “a good bullet” that would justify the vote in favor of Sánchez to the Valencian electorate.. This transitional fund, an economic item calculated based on independent reports such as those carried out by Fedea, which supports the initiative, has been claimed by the territories most affected by the system, both the Valencian Community and Andalusia and Murcia.. The Andalusian Junta, in the hands of Juanma Moreno's Popular Party, even joined forces last term with the Botanical Council, then chaired by the socialist Ximo Puig, to jointly claim it..

“It would be a short-term concrete action to stop the bleeding of the deficit due to underfinancing until the reform of the system is resolved,” Compromís sources explain. Along these lines, they point out that technically landing the proposal is not complicated either. It would be about including a direct item in the general budgets of the State, in the same way that Montero forgave in the 2022 accounts more than 3,900 million euros in negative settlements from 2020, the year of the pandemic, to the regional governments (except the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, which registered positive settlement, receivable). To this end, it articulated a transfer from the State to those territories so that they in turn compensated the pending account to the Treasury, with a neutral result in their income and expense accounts.