Go to content

The Government increases by about 50% the resources to finance public services in the Valencian Community

26/12/2025
  • Between 2019-2025, the C.Valenciana received €30,386M more than in the 2012-2018 period
  • “These resources demonstrate the Government’s commitment to C.Valenciana in order to strengthen the welfare state and economic development,” said Bernabé.
  • For the delegate, the C.Valenciana “advances thanks to the investment effort of the Government of Spain”

The Government of Spain has increased the resources to finance public services in the Valencian Community by 48.9% over the last seven years in relation to the period 2012-2018. “This amounts to a total of 30,386M€ more for the Comunitat than what was allocated in the years of the government of Mariano Rajoy and the Popular Party,” said the delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé. On the action of the Government of Spain contained in the report Complying, added that the cancellation of the State debt reaches 11,210M€, which will mean reducing it in this autonomous community by 20% compared to 2023.

In 2026, between the account deliveries and the settlement of 2024, “the C. Valenciana will receive the record figure of 17.380M€ (+9.1% that in 2025) and the deficit path proposed by the Government for 2026-2028 would allow a fiscal margin of 510M€”, he added.

Bernabé has indicated that these data express “the commitment of the Government with the Valencian Community” through “an important injection of funding with the objective of strengthening the welfare state, economic development, energy efficiency and infrastructures of this community”.

In addition, the delegate recalled that the Government has mobilized 16.6 billion euros for the area affected by the dana and more than 9 billion euros have already been used by the Government of Spain.

All these data, Bernabé said, do not represent “a lower figure. It is a difference of models and priorities. This investment is noticeable. It shows in more health, in more education, in more social policies and in more responsiveness of public administrations.”

The Valencian Community “advances and advances thanks to the investment effort of the Government of Spain that continues to comply and demonstrate with data and facts that in the Valencian Community today there are more people working than ever, more women working than ever and with more resources to finance the public services of this community”

Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR)

According to the data provided by the delegate, the PRTR has allocated to Comunitat Valenciana a total investment of 6,301M€, of which 4,051M€ comes from the General Administration of the State, with 142,642 beneficiaries. From this initiative, the delegate has highlighted the PERTE VEC (electric and connected vehicle) with an investment of €152M for the battery gigantic for electric vehicles of PowerCo Battery (Volkswagen) in Sagunto (Valencia); and €93M for the MOVES III Plan, with more than 25,650 beneficiaries.

For its part, the Ministry of Industry and Tourism has invested since 2019 in the C. Valencian 1.103.7 M€, “194% more (728.3 M€) than in the seven years of the PP Government (375.4 M€)”, according to the delegate. In the case of the Ministry of Transport, €3,500M has been invested since 2018, and “the rate of investment has doubled.” The delegate highlighted the railway investments, promoted by the Mediterranean Corridor, which reached €540M in 2024 and “doubled the last record of the PP in 2017.” In addition, since 2018, investment in housing in the C. Valenciana is €1,145.4 million, there are 4,823 homes under construction and 17,901 in rehabilitation.

Social Shield

According to the delegate, the revaluation of pensions in the Valencian Community has meant that the average retirement pension is 1,389 euros per month, 379 euros more than in 2018. Bernabé pointed out that “if the 0.25% increase in the PP were still applied, Valencians would currently receive almost €400 less pension: 1,030 euros”.

In addition, there are currently 2,264,368 members of the Social Security in the Valencian Community, 365,893 more than in November 2018. Also, after the labor reform, there are 672,282 indefinite contracts in the Valencian Community, 209% more than in 2019.

The delegate recalled that the increase in the Government’s Minimum Interprofessional Wage has benefited 280,200 Valencian workers. For its part, the Minimum Vital Income is benefiting 268,489 people in the Valencian Community, with 379,666 Valencian recipients since 2020.

The electric social bond benefits 223,306 people from the Valencian Community and 111,378 students have been beneficiaries of government scholarships in the Valencian Community. In addition, the Ministry of Social Rights “has contributed the record amount” of €284 million for dependency in 2024, which means “quintupling dependency spending in the Valencian Community in a decade”.

In the field of Health, more than €40.3M has been invested in different health programs, of which €19M has been allocated to strengthen Primary Care. In terms of equality, €14.4 million has been allocated to the Valencian Community to develop the State Pact against Gender Violence and €12.6 million for the Joint Responsibility Plan.

On the other hand, there has also been an increase in the investment of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Function of 1.433% (736.7M€): "from 51.4M€ in the seven years of Rajoy to 788M€", said Bernabé who also highlighted the "great investments in Culture such as the Public Library of the State in Alicante (17.3 M€) or the Provincial Historical Archive of Castellón (13.3 M€)". Finally, the delegate also highlighted the contributions of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory that has allocated during the period 2020/2025, €1.6M for exhumations of victims of the Civil War.