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2020 has been the year in which the pandemic has disrupted all the budget plans of the Generalitat ... and has been used as an excuse by the Government of Pedro Sánchez to delay, once again, the reform of the autonomous financing system.

The debt of the Valencian Community already borders 50,000 million euros, which has led President Ximo Puig to demand from Sánchez the urgent change of the model in 2021, taking advantage of his institutional New Year's Eve speech.

2021 has to be "the year of fair financing in Spain"

, he said.

In the eternal demand for the change of model, there is no lack of criticism of the "discrimination" of the Valencian Community -with incomes per inhabitant below the average-, but Puig has also taken the opportunity to link the reform of regional financing to a solution to the territorial crisis.

Thus, it has demanded that reform "for justice with territories such as the Valencian Community -profoundly discriminated-, and also

to make viable a 'Spain of Spain'

that sutures wounds, promotes reconciliation and generates complicities".

His words also come just after the

confrontation with the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso

, on account of the distribution of European funds between the autonomies, in which the Valencian region is one of the most benefited regions along with others governed by the PSOE.

Ayuso had criticized, for example, that the Valencian Community received 12.5% ​​of the 10,000 million distributed among the autonomies, a figure similar to that of Madrid despite the fact that "its weight in GDP is 9% and the population is 10%" .

This is not the first time that Puig has lashed out at Madrid, which he has been openly accusing for some time of 'fiscal dumping' with his low-tax policy.

Nor is the expression "Spain of Spain" new to Puig, which in this case he uses as a

dart aimed at both Madrid and Catalonia

, although without explicitly mentioning them.

In his words, "it is necessary to get out of the 'mental confinement' of that exclusive nationalism that leads to uniformity or independence," blaming the territorial crisis on both sides.

"Spain is not broken," he stressed, also referring to the speech of the PP in a veiled way.

Spain is, he insisted, "a mosaic of identities and cultures that enrich, that contribute, that add".

Critical of "the tension and the trenches that we unfortunately see every day" but nothing with his management of the pandemic, Puig has promised on the other hand the

creation of 90,000 jobs in three years

.

"Quality jobs associated with knowledge, the new industry, the sustainability of new energies and digitization", he stated.

Of course, he has linked this promise to the receipt of European funds, as the Valencian Community "will receive from Europe five times more resources -in just 3 years- than all the European funds received in a decade and a half."

Something "unpublished", in his own words.

It is the third time that the head of the Consell leaves the Palau de la Generalitat to deliver his New Year's Eve speech.

This time he has chosen a space full of symbolism such as the

Nau of the University of Valencia

and, specifically, its cloister, where the statue of the Valencian humanist Luis Vives is located, to convey the importance of science, education and Europe in these times complexes due to the pandemic.

He has surrounded himself with Vives books and documents with social and political agreements for post-pandemic reconstruction.

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