About to reach the middle of the electoral campaign, the Valencian president and candidate for re-election, the socialist Ximo Puig, has decided to step on the accelerator and directly confront Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The leader of the PP returns to Valencia precisely this Sunday -one day after the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, did it-, with the aim of getting muscle by filling the iconic bullring. So the Valencian baron, who had been keeping a low tone in this campaign, has decided this Friday to target Feijóo with the excuse of regional financing.

“When Feijóo talks about there being a change of model, it scares me,” Puig said during a breakfast at the Europa Forum Tribuna Mediterránea. “If it's the one I had in my head until two days ago, I'm not interested,” he added.. His words are not accidental, since the improvement of regional financing is one of the great pending subjects. Used as a throwing weapon against the Government of Mariano Rajoy, the change in Moncloa led the Valencian Government of Puig to lower the tone of the demand.

And, while Sánchez has hardly gotten wet with the change of a model that harms the Valencian Community every time he has set foot on Valencian lands, Feijóo has turned it into an electoral promise in each of his rallies. Now, Puig wanted to delve into the wound, insinuating that the reform that Feijóo would project would not match Valencian interests.

Because? Because the model that Feijóo defended as Galician president was contrary to the one defended by the Valencian Community, which requests financing based on the population and not on other criteria such as the dispersion or age of the population. “We better stay as we are,” Puig insisted.

And, assuming that he has been unable to convince Sánchez to open the financing melon to the bottom, he has indicated that at least the transfers have flowed from the state coffers: “These years at least we have had the support of the Government, which has increased its resources by 60%”. What's more, he has come to insinuate that the payments for a value of 1,000 million that have had to be faced this week from the Generalitat have been able to be made thanks to these contributions.

Puig has not even named Carlos Mazón, the president and candidate of the Valencian PP, but has referred to him as a “trumpeter of the apocalypse”.. “Tot va bé? No, tot va millor (Is everything going well? No, everything is going better)”, Puig ironized, thus answering Mazón who, in turn, has been joking for days that “tot does not go bé”.

In fact, the Valencian president, who on 28-M is playing his third term as head of the Generalitat, has accused the PP of inventing a catastrophic “fake reality”. Faced with the diagnosis of “fiscal hell” or “sanitary collapse” of the PP, Puig pulls management and, above all, the great economic milestone of the legislature, the arrival of Volkswagen in Sagunto.

In this sense, Puig has put into the bag of electoral promises the “open negotiations at the highest level” of the Generalitat with up to ten multinationals from leading sectors such as green hydrogen, renewable energy or big data.. “Together, we are talking about a potential investment of 24,400 million euros and with a total labor impact of 43,000 direct jobs,” said Puig, to also highlight that it represents eight times more than what has already been achieved with the battery cell plant that PowerCo will install in Sagunto. Of course, “some will come and others will not”, he has ended up acknowledging.