• Politics Compromís puts a price on its support for Sánchez: liquidating 46,000 million of debt and putting an end to Madrid's low taxation

The second vice-president of the acting government and leader of Sumar, Yolanda Díaz, has decided to focus on the social agenda to put pressure on the socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, in the face of the negotiation of his investiture. At a joint event in Valencia between Sumar and Compromís, Díaz insisted that the government agreement with the PSOE must include the extension of the tax on banks, the increase in the cost of dismissal or the reduction of working hours. But, above all, he has guaranteed that the reform of regional financing will be a priority of the future government, which has given Compromís breathing room to take for granted the cancellation of the Valencian debt, which far exceeds 50,000 million euros.

"We want a strong social agenda," warned Diaz, who avoided any reference to the amnesty negotiations in order to harshly attack the banks in his speech. "We are working to ensure that banks continue to pay taxes," he said in reference to talks with the PSOE on a tax that between 2023 and 2024 is expected to raise some 3,000 million euros.

In this sense, Díaz has defended that, despite the "small tax" on banks, this has not prevented financial institutions from continuing to increase their profits and "doing real tricks". "They have to be the ones to tighten their belts," he said.

He has used the same tone to refer to employers and employers, to underline that he will put the labour reform back on the negotiating table. In the last legislature "it was not possible to touch the dismissal", Díaz acknowledged in relation to the compensation of workers who lose their jobs. "We will change dismissal in Spain", he has now promised, adding that this new legislature will be the one of "the reduction of the working day".

But Díaz, after stressing that the Valencian Community is one of the worst financed in Spain, has assured that this will also be "the legislature of regional financing". The reform of the expired model also ran aground in the last legislature. "The negotiating committee is working hard to achieve equality in Valencia," he stressed.

And, although the leader of Sumar has not gone further, the deputy of Compromís and deputy spokesperson of Sumar in Congress, Àgueda Micó, has done so, who has assured that "the Valencian agenda and financing will be reflected in the investiture agreement".

What's more, Micó pointed to regional funding as the main problem "when we talk about the territorial model, and not the fit of Catalonia into the State". "That is why I say that this legislature will be the one of financing," he said. In this sense, Compromís is also increasing the pressure for the investiture: "We need the State to recognize that the Valencian debt will be paid by the central government." Micó spoke directly about the "forgiveness" of the Valencian debt "because of the financing". "We have not generated it", he recalled, to send the message that the solution to Valencian underfunding "will pass this legislature".

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