The spokesperson for Vox in Les Corts, José Mª Llanos, has stressed that the principle of national priority constitutes one of the three fundamental pillars of the pact reached between his party and the PP to move forward with the Generalitat's budgets for 2026. He emphasized that this criterion is already included in the new regional accounts presented this Friday by the head of the Consell, Juanfran Pérez Llorca. "It is going to be there because it already is," he insisted.
Llanos made these statements to the media after the ceremony in which the Minister of Finance, José Antonio Rovira, handed over the budget project in Les Corts to the president of the Valencian parliament, Llanos Massó. No representative from the PSPV attended the event, and from Compromís, only Mª Josep Amigó attended as a member of the Bureau.
The budgetary project amounts to 33,305 million euros, which is 1,014 million more than in 2025 and an increase of 3.1%. The accounts set real spending on Health at 9,453 million euros, 2.9% higher than the previous year and equivalent to 36% of the total. For Education, 7,749 million euros are allocated, 6.2% more than in 2025, while 2,732 million euros are designated for Social Services, Family, and Children, an increase of 5.5% compared to last year.
The Vox spokesperson had already announced last Tuesday that the PP's Consell and his party had finalized the commitment to approve the regional budgets at the end of July, after agreeing on a package of measures structured around three pillars: national priority, an "important" tax reduction, and actions to improve access to housing.
"Vox is willing to put itself, now yes, on paper, to negotiate the budgets and to be able to give eventual support to them when all the processing of this bill is completed," Llanos confirmed this Friday, highlighting the "significant and drastic" reduction in tax pressure and the "important measures" in personal income tax so that families achieve "an average saving of over 400 euros."
Spending Cuts and the Housing Problem
The spokesperson added that his party intends to "pursue wasteful spending, both in subsidies and in the duplication of organizations, following that line of cuts that we already established to support the investiture" of Juanfran Pérez Llorca.
As a "second leg", he has pointed out "the sensitive problem of housing that our young people and our families have", recalling that "70 percent of young people up to 34 years old still live in their parents' home and homeownership or young owners has been reduced by more than 50% in just 15 years".
As he detailed, "this must be reversed with policies to reduce bureaucratic obstacles, reduce taxes, reduce property transfer tax, and not establish those taxes that burden those who want to buy or rent a home from construction, from the land to the final building or the final property". He also announced that "measures for renting will be promoted, always prioritizing roots and addressing the needs of young people and families".
"Spaniards First" and National Priority
Llanos has linked these proposals with the "third leg" of the agreement, national priority: "And this connects with the third leg, which is national priority: Spaniards first, in social aid, in access to housing, in all those measures that depend on public administration and that are being sustained with their taxes, with their sacrifice, and with their fiscal effort", he explained.
The Vox leader assured that they will reinforce this approach and announced that "national priority will be set, as is already being done in many municipalities at the council level, and it is reasonable, it is logical, and it is common sense, national priority". "Ours first", he proclaimed, defending "measures to foster roots" and "a historical accumulation to be able to access these homes with priority for those who pay for them, who sustain them, and who deserve them".
When asked if national priority represents a red line for Vox, José Mª Llanos reiterated that it is "one of the three pillars that support the agreement and this future negotiation". "Therefore, it will be there because it already is", he affirmed, recalling that "it is a negotiation that, until we have budgets in writing, obviously cannot be put in writing. But I have said it and I believe the Consell has also announced it".
At the same time, he has rejected that national priority and roots are disconnected concepts and has defended that requiring, for example, "a historical accumulation and that the most objective measures possible are adopted, taking into account patrimonial and labor capacity, evidently have to do" with the principle that Vox claims.
Roots within national priority and response to the opposition
On this point, he has emphasized that national priority includes "roots": "Here we are not making distinctions between one citizen or another. We are talking about national priority and within that, evidently, roots are included, because roots were created in law precisely taking into account the national priority of all countries," he has pointed out, guaranteeing that "this will be put in writing in the measures that will respond to that national priority."
When questioned about the criticism from PSPV and Compromís, who maintain that the PP has given in to Vox's demands in these accounts, the spokesperson has replied that what "the other opposition" to Vox thinks "matters little to us." He has insisted that his party is guided by "what the street asks of us, what the Valencians ask of us" and has defended that it is not a matter of "giving in, conceding, or recovering," but rather that these were the conditions that Vox set to sit down and negotiate and that the PP of the Valencian Community, "with Pérez Llorca at the head of the Consell, has accepted them." "We are not doing this so that Vox wins, we are doing this so that all Valencians win," he concluded.
Later, on the social network X, the spokesperson reiterated that Vox "has announced that there will be national priority, and so it will be." On the same platform, the president of Les Corts, Llanos Massó, specified: "The Government brings to Les Corts a bill that must be approved by the deputies, and then an accompanying law that contemplates the necessary legislative modifications to, among other things, apply national priority. And I already warn you that it will be so."