The spokesperson for Vox in the Valencian Les Corts, José Mª Llanos, has stressed that the principle of national priority constitutes one of the three basic pillars of the agreement reached with the PP to move forward with the Generalitat's budgets for 2026. He reiterated that this criterion is already included in the 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, registered the budget project in Les Corts and handed it over 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, an increase of 3.1%. The accounts reserve an effective expenditure of 9,453 million euros for Health, 2.9% higher than the previous year and equivalent to 36% of the total. For Education, 7,749 million euros are planned, 6.2% more than in 2025, while for Social Services, Family and Children, 2,732 million euros are allocated, an increase of 5.5% compared to the previous fiscal year.
The Vox spokesperson had already announced last Tuesday that the PP Consell and his party had closed the commitment to approve the regional accounts at the end of July, after agreeing on a package of measures structured around three pillars: national priority, an "important" tax cut, and addressing the housing access problem.
"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," reiterated Llanos, who emphasized the "sensitive and drastic" reduction of tax pressure and the "important measures" in personal income tax so that families achieve "an average saving of more than 400 euros."
"To pursue wasteful spending" and tackle housing
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 set 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 the ownership or young homeowners has been reduced by more than 50% in just 15 years".
"This must be reversed with policies to reduce bureaucratic hurdles, reduce taxes, reduce property transfer tax, and not establish those taxes that burden those who want to acquire or rent a home from construction, from the land to the final building or the final property," he has detailed. Likewise, he has announced that "measures for rent will be promoted, always prioritizing roots and attending to the needs of young people and families."
"Spaniards First" and National Priority
"And this ties into 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 has pointed out.
Llanos has assured that they will insist on this principle and has announced that "national priority will be set, as is already being done in many municipalities at the municipal level, and it is reasonable, it is logical, and it is common sense, national priority." "Ourselves first," he has defended, advocating for "measures of roots" and for defining "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 constitutes a red line for Vox, José Mª Llanos has 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 has assured, 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 that the Consell has also announced it."
At the same time, he has rejected that the concepts of national priority and roots are unrelated and has defended that the requirement of, for example, "a historical accumulation and that all possible objective measures be adopted, taking into account patrimonial and labor capacity, obviously have to do" with the principle that his party promotes.
National priority and "roots" in the measures
"Here we are not making distinctions between one citizen and another. We are talking about national priority and within that, roots are included, because roots were created in law precisely by attending to the national priority of all countries," Llanos clarified, who guaranteed: "That will be put in writing in the measures that will respond to that national priority."
In relation to the criticisms from PSPV and Compromís, who maintain that the PP has given in to Vox's demands in these accounts, the spokesperson replied that what "the other opposition" interprets of Vox "matters little to us."
"What matters to us is what the street asks of us, what the Valencians ask of us, and it is not a matter of giving in, conceding, or recovering. It is a matter of these being the priorities that Vox established to start negotiating and the PP of the Valencian Community, with Pérez Llorca at the head of the Consell, has accepted them," he stated. "We are not doing this so that Vox wins, we are doing this so that all Valencians win," he concluded.
Later, in a post on the social network X, the spokesperson reiterated that Vox "has announced that there will be national priority, and so it will be." In the same vein, the president of Les Corts, Llanos Massó, explained on this platform: "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."