The spokesperson for Vox in the Valencian Parliament, José María Llanos, announced this Tuesday that the far-right party will negotiate and support the Generalitat Valenciana’s budget for 2026 after securing from the Consell, chaired by the PP, the commitment to promote a series of measures “based on three pillars: a significant tax reduction, firmly and effectively addressing the housing problem, and, of course, the national priority.” The intention is to approve the accounts, which will be presented on Friday, July 21 or 22. The Valencian PP has accepted Vox’s demands over the past three years to pass the budgets.
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Regarding the controversial national priority, Llanos pointed out that it will be “articulated in social aid and access to housing, both in buying and selling as well as renting, exactly the same as agreed in Extremadura and Aragón, we are not saying anything new.”
The announcement was made by the Vox spokesperson, without the presence of the PP. Llanos expressly thanked the president of the Consell, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, for his willingness to accept the conditions of his party and indicated that a basic package of measures was agreed upon to be developed during the parliamentary process.
Llanos announced measures to combat “illegal, massive, and uncontrolled immigration and fraud in access to public aid, including the creation of a specific service to control registration fraud and overcrowding of homes. The Central Government will also be required to immediately adapt the European Return Regulation in Spain.”
Among Vox’s main demands is the reduction of the tax burden on families, workers, and the middle class, along with new cuts to spending considered unnecessary or ideological. The agreement also includes “greater oversight of public subsidies.” At this point, Llanos highlighted that aid to employers and unions will continue to be reduced.
The budget agreement also includes “a package of housing measures aimed at eliminating bureaucratic obstacles and facilitating access to housing for young people and Valencian families,” states the Vox statement. The goal is to reverse “the policies promoted during the Botànic era [the previous left-wing government] and increase the housing supply both for purchase and rent,” added the spokesperson.
Llanos indicated that “in the coming weeks, technical negotiations on the different budget items will continue and that the full content of the agreement will be detailed as the parliamentary process progresses.”
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These will be the third budgets of this legislature, which began in mid-2023. The first were presented by the Consell chaired by Carlos Mazón in October 2023, when the PP and Vox were still government partners in the Generalitat, and were approved in December thanks to the votes of both parties, which together hold an absolute majority in Les Corts Valencianes.
Those regional budgets had to be extended — something that had not happened since 1989 — due to the disaster caused by the DANA on October 29, 2024. The Consell was going to approve the draft law of the new accounts two days later, but the tragedy halted it. In March 2025, Carlos Mazón announced an agreement with Vox — which months earlier had left all regional executives where it governed in coalition — for budgets that assumed far-right positions on immigration, the Green Pact, or reduction of aid to Valencian. They were approved at the end of May and came into effect on June 1.
In December, the Consell now chaired by Juanfran Pérez Llorca after Mazón’s resignation opted for the second budget extension of the legislature, arguing that the accounts were recent and that the post-DANA recovery plan was based on them. Vox was also supported then.
In the last control session of the regional government, Pérez Llorca stated that he had “no doubt” that this year the PP and Vox would pass the Generalitat’s budgets and that they would thus demonstrate “once again stability, which others cannot offer.” Vox’s support will again be necessary for the new regional accounts to pass, as the PP has 40 seats in Les Corts Valencianes, ten short of an absolute majority, which is reached with the 13 Vox parliamentarians. The current parliamentary session period was officially ending on July 3, but it has been decided to extend it until July 22 to approve the budgets before the summer holidays, as the budget process usually takes about two months.
“Concessions to Vox”
The leader of the PSPV and Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, was the first to react to the announcement and demanded that the president of the Generalitat Valenciana and president of the PPCV management committee, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, clarify what his “concessions” to Vox are “to stay in power.” “The interests and future of the Valencians, once again, in the hands of Abascal,” she lamented. She expressed this on social media. Morant also pointed out that the former president of the Generalitat Carlos Mazón “was the first to open institutions to the far right.” “Now, Pérez Llorca will be the first to apply the national priority,” she predicted, which she believes shows that the Valencians are “in the hands” of Vox leader Santiago Abascal.