Puig uses the New Year message to ask for agreements and sell "stability" five months after the elections

After a few years in which he tried going out to different enclaves, Ximo Puig has returned to the

to star in his already traditional New Year's Eve message.

This time, in its most institutional role and with all the solemnity conferred by the 600 years of history of the walls of the Saló de Corts.

Not surprisingly, it was the last speech before the elections, that is, only five months before the regional and local elections to be held in May.

In this context, Puig has taken the opportunity to turn the page on the latest corruption scandals that haunt his party for

and sell "stability".

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"It is time for useful politics", the president insisted in his message this Friday, the day that the plenary session of the Consell approved precisely new measures against inflation.

Puig has not been able to stop listing them: 10% savings in all regional rates, suspension of payment of the sanitation fee on the water bill until July and extension of free public transport for young people and a reduction of up to 50% in the rest of the fees.

The "top priority" of the Consell, he has insisted, is "the fight against inflation", since he has recognized that "everything is more expensive, more difficult, more uncertain".

For this reason, it has once again pounced on the tax reform with which it agitated the national board -it will lower taxes after Moncloa criticized this policy in the PP governments-, or on the gigafactory of batteries that

will install in

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In a national key, the Valencian president has asked himself "why so much tension, so much noise and so much division", when "negotiating is not a weakness, nor giving in is surrender, nor agreeing is betraying", in clear reference to the controversial reforms on embezzlement or sedition that Pedro Sánchez has approved together with ERC.

Despite the fact that the electoral battle will intensify with the entry of the new year and that the Government and the PSOE itself have been blaming Alberto Núñez Feijóo for some time now for entrenching himself in the blockade of

, Puig has advocated opening a new cycle of pacts with the opposition: "The renewal of the Constitutional Court should mean a turning point, the opening of a cycle of great pacts in

".

"For the good of coexistence", he stressed.

In this sense, he pointed out that "fair, no excuses and no further delay" financing must now be approved.

It has not been the only request to the Government of Spain, to which it has also claimed "water, with justice and territorial equity", after the reopening of the water war with the cutback of the

transfer .

"Let's stop, talk and agree", he has sentenced, in a speech where there has been no lack of allusion to the "empty chair" that this Christmas there will be in the houses whose families have lost a loved one, as was the case with the death of his father,

, last July at the age of 92.

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