The president of the Generalitat Valenciana,

Ximo Puig

, has drawn as one of the axes to "sew invertebrate Spain" the need to alleviate the

"inefficient centralism"

exercised by

Madrid

and that has generated an

"invisible process"

of fracture while contributing to generate "enormous income inequalities" between territories. For this, he has put on the table the need for a "great

tax reform

" with which to compensate the capital effect and "the agglomeration economy", which could be through a

tax on higher incomes

Madrid.

"The OECD has said that there is a tax problem in Madrid, but let us look for the best solution. I am not going to improvise a tax, but that way has to be present."

As pointed out by Puig in his conference at the 'Europa Press Breakfasts', the "wealth plus" enjoyed by the capital "is not generated by chance, but thanks to state public support."

"It is not the result of an 'invisible hand' that Madrid is today 36 points above the average in GDP per capita but is due to many decades of privileged investment in infrastructure, the location of decision-making centers that attract companies and activities and generate influence networks and the high concentration of public organizations with a lot of qualified employment that is scarce in other territories ", he pointed out.

To compensate for this metropolis effect, the proposal to the Expert Committee for the Reform of Fiscal Policy is that, "in order to share with everyone the greater productivity generated by public support, there should be a contribution from the most benefited" through a new instrument . "

The philosophy is simple: if there is privilege, there must be consideration

", he has sentenced.

This privilege is extended by the socialist to tax breaks for high incomes thanks to the advantages of capital status,

tax "dumping"

. "An unfair competition in the center of the M-50, because it affects 7% of the people of Madrid, and outside, as a vacuum cleaner of the great patrimonies of other communities. Where is Madrid heading in relation to Spain? Just 20 years ago,

Pasqual Maragall

launched a prediction: “Madrid is leaving.” Today, that drift has crystallized in the invisible “procés” of Madrid. The “procés” of a capital that does not take into account the consequences of its decisions for the rest of the country. That Madrid prosperity is good for Spain. Also for the Valencian Community. But it is important that we all do well ",Puig has made it clear in his speech.

The Valencian president has also demanded the

decentralization

of State structures, from the

Senate

, which could have its headquarters in another city, to organizations such as State Ports, Tourism or the Oceanographic Institute. Moreover, it has proposed that the celebration

of the National Holiday

of October 12 be moved each year to a different city. "Spain needs more engines."

The other great demand to face the structuring of Spain is the reform of

the financing model

, for which Puig is recruiting presidents of autonomies such as Andalusia or the Balearic Islands and the one that he would like to add to Catalonia, seeing her sitting in the Fiscal Policy Council and Financial because it does not conceive a "bilateral pact" that only favors autonomy.

Support for Sánchez: "Brave and sensible" pardon

Among the five territorial challenges that, according to Puig, Spain, Catalonia and the independence movement has, it is the first after a "lost decade" in which it has passed "from the modernizing impulse to that of institutional paralysis." However, his bet is on "dialogue, audacity and a pact", and he has supported Pedro Sánchez. "To agree is not to betray. I support the path of president out of conviction and pragmatism," he stressed.

For the head of the Consell,

the pardons have been "a brave and sensible decision"

and warns that "coexistence is not enough but rather that coexistence must be sought."

"There are no happy agreements, nor can it be sought to have humiliated, defeated or defeated. We must go from the picture of Goya's 'Duel with clubs' to the 'Hug' of Juan Genovés". "

That is why he has highlighted as "very bad news" that the Catalan president, Pere Aragonés, has already expressed his refusal to attend the Conference of Presidents -which is held next week in Salamanca and which he has asked to institutionalize every six months- and has invited to "rethink it".

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