The Popular Party and the far-right formation impose their majority and pass the Accompaniment Law, completing the Budget Law.
PP and Vox are advancing in the extension of the “national priority” advocated by the far-right party within the Valencian regulatory framework. This Friday, they imposed their majority (40 and 13 deputies, respectively) and approved the so-called Accompaniment Law in Les Corts, introducing this controversial principle in access to social aid and housing. Last week, they already did this in a law—for the first time in Spain—when approving the Generalitat’s Budget.
Furthermore, both parliamentary partners have taken advantage of this regulation, which functions annually as a kind of legislative catch-all, to approve several Vox proposals that generally lower the tax burden, with a significant impact on higher incomes.
Major Tax Reductions
On one hand, the personal income tax (IRPF) is reduced retroactively for 2026, as the PP had already planned, adding a 0.15% rate reduction for annual incomes over 100,000 euros. For 2027, another tenth of a percentage point will be reduced across all brackets, meaning the cumulative drop for the bracket above 100,000 euros will ultimately be 0.25%.
On the other hand, a new reduction in the Wealth Tax is applied by raising the exempt minimum from the one million euros approved by the previous Valencian president, Carlos Mazón (PP), to two million euros. Only about 4,200 Valencians will have to pay this tax, compared to the nearly 28,000 who did so in 2023 before PP and Vox reached a coalition agreement, according to Tax Agency statistics.
The PP has accepted all of Vox’s amendments, except the one requesting further cuts to the budget of the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, the Generalitat’s regulatory body for the Valencian language, which the far-right party does not hide its intention to eliminate. They also rejected all opposition amendments.
A Short but Harsh Debate
In this way, the votes of the Popular Party and the party led by Santiago Abascal prevailed over those of the PSPV-PSOE (31 deputies) and Compromís (15) to pass the Law on Fiscal Measures, Administrative and Financial Management, and Organization of the Generalitat Valenciana, better known as the accompaniment law.
This completes the agreement between the two right-wing formations that has allowed the approval of the third Generalitat budgets of the legislature presided over by the PP, the first with Juanfran Pérez Llorca as president.
The debate was short but harsh and intense. The opposition accused the PP of yielding to the designs and racist policies of the far right.
José María Llanos (Vox spokesperson): Boasted again, as he did during the budget session, that “national priority” appears in another law and has “real effects on public policies” regarding access to public housing, requiring “five years of historical registration in any municipality in Spain.”[cite: 1] He added that no one should be excluded from the tax cuts.
Nando Pastor (PP spokesperson): Highlighted that the measures will simplify bureaucratic procedures and lower taxes, especially for middle and low-income earners, while allocating 350 million euros to housing[cite: 1]. “I have always said that Vox is a good partner, and I feel very comfortable saying it,” adding that, conversely, he would feel “very uncomfortable, it would even make me nauseous, if I had to say thank you Otegi, thank you Bildu, or thank you Arnaldo”.
José Muñoz (PSPV-PSOE): Criticized the tax cuts for those earning over 100,000 euros a year and added that Pérez Llorca’s PP passes laws “hand in hand with those who speak of unaccompanied minors as if they were Amazon packages.”The PP practices “a false patriotism that makes 99.9 percent of Valencians live worse”.
Joan Baldoví (Compromís spokesperson): Framed the accounts as “ideological extremism” tailor-made for the PP and Vox, agreeing with the Socialists that it “shamefully” benefits privileged people “and punishes the people with the lowest incomes”.He lamented that Vox is “satisfied” with the accounts.
Other Approved Measures
One of the approved measures establishes that the regulatory development will contemplate “excluding access to structural social benefits and services for people in an irregular administrative situation”, limiting their access exclusively to “cases of vital urgency that proceed in accordance with the legal system”.
In practice, this means that a “reinforced minimum period of rootedness, registration, and connection to the territory” will be required to receive public aid, subsidies, and benefits, in addition to taking into account “the history of contributions, permanence, and contribution to the sustainment of the system.”
The prohibition of the use of the burqa and niqab has also been approved, including in the accompaniment law “as an objective reason for denying access and permanence” in public spaces—including transport and health centers—and establishments to people wearing “garments or accessories that substantially conceal the face, preventing their visual identification or facial recognition”. Civil servants must enforce this precept, which will be under the surveillance of the Local Police forces.