The PSPV-PSOE spokesperson in the Valencian Corts, José Muñoz, has denounced that the president of the Generalitat, Pérez Llorca, “has hidden” from the Valencian people that Pedro Sánchez’s Government approved in February an advance of 200 million euros on account of the settlement of the financing system to help pay the bills for health, education, and social services. The information, explains the PSPV, comes from reviewing the official documentation sent by the Ministry of Finance to the socialist group in the Corts, and the Finance resolution to the autonomous government’s request stipulates that the granted advance “will be canceled when the payment of the financing system settlement corresponding to 2024 is made.”
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That is why Muñoz has censured that Pérez Llorca “had the audacity to criticize the Government in the last two control sessions in the Corts for not updating the 2026 advance payments while remaining silent that it was the Government that rescued it in February with an advance of resources to help pay the bills.”
“It was the Government that rescued it in February with an advance of resources to help pay bills,” points out Muñoz
Furthermore, Muñoz highlights that the Valencian Community “is the only one of the 17 autonomous communities for which the Government of Spain has advanced these resources.” “One must have enormous hypocrisy and great audacity to attack the Government and hide from the Valencians the financial support of the central Executive, as has been happening since Pedro Sánchez has been in power in 2018, in order to help the Generalitat pay its debts with suppliers, pharmacies, self-employed workers, or companies, as well as to attend to health, education, and social services.”
<p“For greater shamelessness, the advance payments could not be updated to 2026 because the PP and the ultras of Vox have blocked in Congress up to two royal decrees, from December 2025 and February 2026, that guaranteed this update.” “They rejected it because, in their tremendous irresponsibility, they believe that by doing so they harm the Government of Spain, but who they really punish are the thousands and thousands of suppliers, small business owners, self-employed workers, employees, and families who cannot collect their services or receive certain aids due to the blockage of the improvement in the financing corresponding to this year,” reproaches the spokesperson.
The socialist spokesperson censures “the flagrant and evident institutional disloyalty” of Pérez Llorca, who “presents himself as a dialoguing and moderate politician but whose political action, due to its extreme weakness, is based on the cynicism and lack of scruples of Mazón, while he has shamelessly bought the ultra agenda of Vox, with the disgusting lie of making it seem that the deterioration of health, education, and social services in the Valencian Community is due to immigrants, when it is a consequence of the abandonment of the social shield of the Valencian Community.”
For José Muñoz, we are facing “a president who has bowed to the orders of Génova to say no to a new model of autonomous financing promoted by the Government of Spain that will resolve the historical injustice of the underfunding of the Valencian Community and that will mean in 2027 no less than 3,669 million more than with the current model.” “Pérez Llorca criticizes that, curiously due to the PP and Vox, something less than 200 million was collected, while at the same time rejecting the new financing that will provide 3,669 million to the Valencian Community in 2027,” warns José Muñoz, who accuses PP and Vox of “years of voting in the General Courts against the interests of the Valencian Community and against it receiving more resources to provide the same services as other communities.”
Popular reaction
In response, the Economy spokesperson of the Popular parliamentary group in Les Corts, Mari Carmen Contelles, has pointed out that “the advance payments are money from the Valencians, not extra aid from the State.” Contelles has stated that “the Valencian socialists boast that the Government of Spain rescues the Community when it sends the same as last year and we have received 160 million euros less than what corresponds to us. The treasury advances on account of the financing system settlement are not a rescue by the central Government towards the Valencian Community. It is money from the Autonomous Communities that the Government withholds until July.”
The PP points out that “if the Community had a transitional equalization fund, it would not be necessary to claim these advances”
In this regard, the popular spokesperson recalled that “the Botànic government broke records in advances; in fact, Puig repeatedly requested advance payments of autonomous financing from the Government of Spain. The Botànic requested up to 5,000 million euros in advances.” And she added that “if the Valencian Community had a transitional equalization fund as requested by the PP, it would not be necessary to claim these advances. This fund would alleviate the financial situation of the Community until a new financing system model is approved.” Contelles explained that “since the beginning of the year, the advance payments in the Valencian Community have been those of last year, they have not been updated, and in April we returned to 2023, which has meant receiving 160 million euros less than what corresponds to us.”
